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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).
Robert Duvall
Col. Sherman T. Potter
for Col. Sherman T. Potter in M"A*S*H
Suggested by trekkie1991
In the hell of the Vietnam War, the best care anywhere can be found at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, where Hawkeye Pierce leads an oddball group of surgeons, nurses, and other assorted military riff-raff. The war drags on, the wounded pile in, doctors come and go…so what better way to maintain the little sanity they have left than with a sense of humor? Put a whoopee cushion in the latrine, replace someone's toothpaste with hair gel, then celebrate with a martini that tastes like lighter fluid. M*A*S*H…Ruining the war for everyone!
