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Robert Selden Duvall (January 5, 1931 – February 15, 2026) was an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Duvall began appearing in theater in the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s, playing Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and appearing in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), as Major Frank Burns in the blockbuster comedy M*A*S*H (1970) and the lead role in THX 1138 (1971), as well as Horton Foote's adaptation of William Faulkner's Tomorrow (1972), which was developed at The Actors Studio and is his personal favorite. This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in commercially successful films. He has starred in numerous films and television series, including The Twilight Zone (1963), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), Tender Mercies (1983) (which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor), The Natural (1984), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Days of Thunder (1990), Falling Down (1993), Secondhand Lions (2003), The Judge (2014), and Widows (2018). His final role was in The Pale Blue Eye (2022).
1. CASABLANCA War veteran John "Rooster" Blain has a bar in San Juan where you can buy a fake passport. Victor and Ilsa, a couple flee to the USA from the communists. Ilsa is John's ex-girlfriend and love blossoms again. Blain wants to run away with her, but realizes that she will be happier with Victor. At the end, a letter arrives that his mother has died. 2. SONS OF KATIE BLAINE John returns home. The home ranch is in the hands of Morgan Hastings and his father died under strange circumstances. He buried his mother in Clearwater. The 4 brothers go after Hastings, the fight begins. John becomes sheriff. 3. RIO BRAVO The Burdet brothers are causing a stir in town. Younger Joe shoots the unarmed and Sheriff John arrests him. Nathan Burdet and his men thus start a war. John has Tom "Dude" Blaine and old Stumpy by his side. They will face multiple odds. 4. TRUE GRIT Mattie Ross leaves the farm to find and bury her father. Companion Tom Chaney killed him. Mattie is looking for a man to catch Chaney. She hired John and they go to the mountains together and catch him. 5. ROOSTER BLAINE Sheriff Rooster is fired for shooting and drinking too much. Judge Parker asks him to find and bring back a car loaded with weapons and explosives that has been seized by a gang led by the dreaded Hawk. 6. THE SHOOTIST Aging John comes to the city to hide and fight the hardest battle, with an insidious disease. His fame as an unbeaten marksman haunts him.
