TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Robert Duvall.
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Birthdate: January 5, 1931
Robert Duvall
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
2.7577
9
1970s
2.8005
21
1980s
1.8237
9
1990s
2.8926
20
2000s
2.9035
15
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.3406
3.3406
Robert Duvall Movie Rankings
1
3.9812War veteran Michael Corlone returns home to find himself becoming increasingly involved with the family "business." His father, "Don" Vito Corleone, is the head of the mafia family and eventually expects Michael to take his place when he dies. ...more about Godfather
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $7.18
(21 sellers)
2
3.8987Local lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman in a racially charged Alabama town. Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. ...more about To Kill a Mockingbird
DVD from $9.00
(17 sellers)
3
3.8894The second installment in the Godfather trilogy follows Michael and his position of "Don" in the Corleone family. The film also tells about Vito Corleone's beginnings and how he became one of the most powerful men in New York. ...more about Godfather: Part II
DVD from $8.97
(17 sellers)
4
3.4773
During the height of the Vietnam War, Special Forces Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt and kill one of the Military's own; an insane Col. reported to have killed hundreds of innocent people and has established a personal refuge in the jungle. ...more about Apocalypse Now
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- American Movie Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $10.30
(13 sellers)
5
3.2598
A new, expanded version of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam war epic. ...more about Apocalypse Now Redux
- Not Available on DVD
6
3.2346
Frank Bullitt is selected by Chalmers, a politician with ambition, to guard a Mafia informant. Bullitt's friend is shot and the witness is left at death's door by two hit men who seem to know exactly where the the witness was hiding. ...more about Bullitt
DVD from $9.76
(16 sellers)
7
3.2245
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. That's where two young surgeons, Duke and Hawkeye end up during the Korean War. ...more about MASH
DVD from $7.49
(11 sellers)
8
3.1557
In 1975 terrorist violence is the stuff of network nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS television network is changing. ...more about Network
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $19.01
(12 sellers)
9
3.1084
Karl Childers, now a grown man, is released from a psychiatric hospital where he has been hospitalized since the age of 12 for the murder of his mother and her lover. ...more about Sling Blade
DVD from $7.02
(11 sellers)
10
3.0884
A satirical window into the world of big tobacco and the culture of spin. Attacked by politicians and lifestyle advocates Nick Naylor's job is to defend big tobacco, until his son and health force him to question his own position. ...more about Thank You for Smoking
DVD from $10.96
(15 sellers)
11
3.0698
Eulis 'Sonny' Dewey is a preacher from Texas living a happy life with his beautiful wife Jessie. Suddenly his stable world crumbles: Jessie is having an affair with young minister Horace. ...more about Apostle
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
- Society of Texas Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $9.38
(11 sellers)
12
3.0659
The sudden death of her father sends a young tomboy of a girl, 'Mattie Ross' (Kim Darby) on a mission to find justice, and the avenging of her father's death. ...more about True Grit
DVD from $6.39
(7 sellers)
13
3.0385
George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. ...more about THX 1138
DVD from $9.05
(13 sellers)
14
3.0033
In 1881 a younger member of the notorious James gang becomes so inextricably drawn to and frightened of his mentor that his own delusions of grandeur force him to consider doing the unthinkable. ...more about Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
DVD from $11.99
(14 sellers)
15
2.9281
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. ...more about Seven-Per-Cent Solution
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.9234
Police detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs. ...more about Detective
DVD from $5.80
(14 sellers)
17
2.8903
A group of cattle herders are temporally detoured when a young ranch hand is beaten and jailed by a corrupt land baron and the sheriff. Wanting to acquire the group's heard the baron’s henchmen attack them, killing several men. The herders return to the old town to enact their revenge. ...more about Open Range
DVD from $8.38
(12 sellers)
18
2.8614
A tenacious young lawyer (Travolta) is confronted with the case of a lifetime in this unbelievable real-life story. ...more about Civil Action
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Supporting Actor - Drama
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
DVD from $7.02
(12 sellers)
19
2.8532
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. ...more about Paper
DVD from $3.92
(14 sellers)
20
2.8426
Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. ...more about Gingerbread Man
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
21
2.7678
"Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy (Osment) left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles (Caine and Duvall), whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives. ...more about Secondhand Lions
DVD from $5.59
(11 sellers)
22
2.7305
As a comet is on a collision course with earth, humans have to prepare for their survival. They randomly select eight hundred thousand people to be saved in order to keep the human race alive. ...more about Deep Impact
Actor Awards
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actor - Sci-Fi
DVD from $3.94
(10 sellers)
23
2.7290
The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. ...more about Phenomenon
DVD from $7.02
(11 sellers)
24
2.7187
A helicopter pilot survives a near-fatal accident and returns to his home - to find that he's been replaced by an exact duplicate of himself, a clone. When the clone's creators find out the pilot didn't die in the crash, the hunt is on. ...more about 6th Day
DVD from $4.39
(13 sellers)
25
2.7162
Bowlegged cracker, Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. ...more about Family Thing
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
26
2.6861
Natalie Ravenna decides one day that she needs a break from marriage. She meanders across the U.S. trying to deal with the notion of being responsible. ...more about Rain People
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.5718
Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' (qv) and 'Francis Ford Coppola' (qv)'s struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Elanor Coppola, wife of Francis. ...more about Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.5665
Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall "Memphis" Raines walked away from the life. ...more about Gone in Sixty Seconds
DVD from $7.02
(13 sellers)
29
2.5586
William (D-FENS) just wants to get home to see his daughter on her birthday. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going right for him. First there's the traffic jam, then the unhelpful Korean shopkeeper who "doesn't give change". ...more about Falling Down
DVD from $3.59
(12 sellers)
30
2.5463
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. ...more about Newsies
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
DVD from $10.98
(11 sellers)
31
2.5318
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men. ...more about We Own the Night
DVD from $8.99
(17 sellers)
32
2.5293
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear. ...more about Colors
DVD from $9.27
(9 sellers)
33
2.5213
John J. is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. ...more about Assassination Tango
DVD from $4.99
(11 sellers)
34
2.5187
Cole Trickle enters the high-pressure world of Nascar racing. He's a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other drivers, but members of his own team as well. ...more about Days of Thunder
DVD from $3.94
(11 sellers)
35
2.5178
John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of a heart failure. Immediately, John Q. rushes Michael to the hospital's emergency room for a transplant. Unfortunately, the insurance would not cover his son's transplant. ...more about John Q
DVD from $7.35
(11 sellers)
36
2.5148
Grace Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie deceives her with another woman. ...more about Something to Talk About
DVD from $4.60
(10 sellers)
37
2.5075
In the world of high-stakes poker, Huck Cheever is a blaster--a player who goes all out, all the time. But in his personal relationships, Huck plays it tight, expertly avoiding emotional commitments and long-term expectations. ...more about Lucky You
- Not Available on DVD
39
2.4573
The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. ...more about Betsy
DVD from $4.99
(11 sellers)
40
2.4179
Gordon McLeod (Robert Duvall) is the manager of a second tier Scottish football team. ...more about Shot at Glory
DVD from $9.59
(8 sellers)
41
2.3249
Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. ...more about Eagle Has Landed
DVD from $3.99
(15 sellers)
42
2.2838
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers, and one in particular - Geronimo, is restless. ...more about Geronimo: An American Legend
DVD from $3.92
(12 sellers)
43
2.2601
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career. ...more about Tender Mercies
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $2.94
(12 sellers)
44
2.2466
Gods and Generals, the screen adaptation of Jeff Shaara's heralded best-selling novel and prequel to the acclaimed drama "Gettysburg," is and epic and sweeping portrayal of a nation divided at the start of the Civil War. ...more about Gods and Generals
DVD from $6.71
(11 sellers)
45
2.2295
The Apollo 3 crew are training when it is discovered that the Russians plan a moon landing. The Americans enact a makeshift plan to land a man on the moon first, using an older style Gemini spacecraft. ...more about Countdown
- Not Available on DVD
46
2.1441
In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England, seeking independence. Awaiting her husband, she establishes independence, fixing up a house, befriending Quakers and other outsiders. ...more about Scarlet Letter
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
47
2.1306
Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubba Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' wife. ...more about Chase
DVD from $14.85
(7 sellers)
49
1.9993
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. ...more about Rambling Rose
DVD from $7.15
(10 sellers)
51
1.9779
The four Meechum kids and their mother move from Marine post to Marine post, following their father, a pilot, in the peaceful years before the Vietnam war. ...more about Great Santini
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $4.29
(12 sellers)
52
1.8853
Joe Kidd is a former bounty hunter and all-around tough-guy in the American Southwest. When a band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all relevant records destroyed in a courthouse fire, they turn to force of arms. ...more about Joe Kidd
DVD from $4.08
(12 sellers)
53
1.8744
When the small criminal Macklin is released from prison, he learns that shortly before his brother was shot by two killers. They didn't know that the bank they robbed was owned by the syndicate. ...more about Outfit
- Not Available on DVD
54
1.8733
Dr. Josiah Newman (Gregory Peck) runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz (Tony Curtis) to work in his ward. ...more about Captain Newman
- Not Available on DVD
55
1.8257
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. ...more about Stars Fell on Henrietta
- Not Available on DVD
56
1.8086
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. ...more about Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
- Not Available on DVD
59
1.7222
A lonely farmer in backwoods Mississippi takes in a pregnant wayfarer who has been abandoned by the father of her child. The farmer looks after her, but tragedy soon strikes. ...more about Tomorrow
DVD from $19.17
(7 sellers)
60
1.6695
De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute. ...more about True Confessions
Actor Awards
- Venice Film Festival - Best Actor
DVD from $5.69
(12 sellers)
61
1.6042
Gordon McLeod (Duvall) is the manager of a second tier Scottish football team. ...more about Shot at Glory
- Not Available on DVD
65
1.3874
Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. ...more about Killer Elite
DVD from $6.99
(11 sellers)
68
In 1902 Texas, 13-year-old Horace goes to work on old Soll's farm to earn enough money to buy a headstone for his father's grave. ...more about Convicts
DVD from $6.62
(10 sellers)
70
When Harry Burck (Mark Harmon), an American engineer on loan to Colombia, is taken hostage and held for ranson. ...more about Let's Get Harry
- Not Available on DVD
72
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop. ...more about Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
- Not Available on DVD
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