Boo Radley — To Kill a Mockingbird Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Robert Duvall

Appears in

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Role

Minor

Relationships (3)

• Boo Radley — Social Neighbor — Jem (Phillip Alford)

  Childhood neighbors who initially fascinate and frighten Jem.

• Boo Radley — Social Ostracized Peer — Tom Robinson (Brock Peters)

  Both characters are marginalized and feared by the town of Maycomb.

• Boo Radley — Narrative Defender — Bob Ewell (James Anderson)

  Boo Radley kills Bob Ewell in self-defense to save the children.

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More characters from To Kill a Mockingbird

• Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck)
• Scout Finch (Mary Badham)
• Jem (Phillip Alford)
• Dill Harris (John Megna)
• Mayella Violet Ewell (Collin Wilcox Paxton)
• Sheriff Heck Tate (Frank Overton)
• Tom Robinson (Brock Peters)
• Bob Ewell (James Anderson)
• Maudie Atkinson (Rosemary Murphy)
• Walter Cunningham Sr. (Crahan Denton)
• Aunt Stephanie Crawford (Alice Ghostley)
• Mr. Gilmer (William Windom)