Robert Duvall, best known for Tender Mercies The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and Lonesome Dove, has passed away.
Esteemed American actor Robert Duvall, best known for Tender Mercy The Godfather, Apocalypse NowAnd Lonely Pigeondied, aged 95.
His wife Luciana Duvall posted on social media: “Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, dear friend and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort. To the world he was a Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me he was just everything.
“His passion for his craft was matched only by his deep love of characters, a great meal and holding court. For each of his many roles, Bob gave his all to his characters and to the truth of the human spirit they represented. In doing so, he leaves behind something lasting and unforgettable for us all. Thank you for the years of support you have given Bob and for giving us this time and privacy to celebrate the memories he leaves behind.”
His career spanned seven decades and won one Academy AwardA BAFTA Awardsfour Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awardsand a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Duvall began his career on television with small roles in the 1960s The Defenders, Speelhuis 90And Armstrong Circle Theater. He made his Broadway debut in the play Wait until it’s dark in 1966.
He made his feature film debut playing Boo Radley Killing a mockingbird in 1962. Includes early credits Captain Newman MD, Bullitt, True Grit, MAS*H, THX 1138, Joe Kidd and Tomorrow.
But the film that turned it all around was the one in 1972 The godfather, in which he played the patient and cunning consigliere Tom Hagen, the role that earned him his first Oscar lecture. He reprized his role as Hagen The Godfather: Part II in 1974.
In 1976, he played a ruthless television executive in Network, and three years later as Colonel Kilgore voiced the memorable I Love the Smell of Napalm on the Morning Line in Coppola’s Apocalypse now.
However, it wasn’t until The Great Santini, in which he played the title character, a boisterous, militaristic father, establishing his reputation as a leading man on film and earning his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor in 1980.
Other notable credits included Tand grace directed by Bruce Beresford, won him the Oscar for best actor, True Confessions, The Natural, Colors, Days of Thunder, Rambling Rose, Geronimo: An American Legend, Deep Impact, The Apostle which he directed.
Further credits included A Citizen’s Action, Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Sixth Day, A Shot at Glory, John Q, Assassination Tango, Open Range, Secondhand Lions, We Own the Night, Four Christmases, Thanks for Smoking, The Road.
He also found time to star in TV vehicles such as Lonely Pigeon And broken track, drew a total of five Emmy nominations and won twice. Other TV credits included Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, The Untouchables, Route 66, The Twilight Zone, Combat!, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, THE Cat, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, The FBI, And The Mod Team.
Duvall often looked happiest when riding, albeit in Lonely Pigeon or in the Kevin Costner Western Open range.
“I think the Western kind defines us,” he said in 2016. “The English have Shakespeare; the French have Molière; the Russians have Chekhov. But the West is ours.”
His other passions included football, the tango and the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, a city he claimed he loved “more than anything”.
“A young actor once asked me, ‘What do you do between jobs?’” he once recalled. “I said: ‘Hobbies, hobbies and more hobbies’. It keeps you off doping.”
Source: Variety, BBC
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