“To the world, he was an Oscar-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was everything.” With these words, Luciana Duvall announced on social media that her husband, acting legend Robert Duvall, had died on Sunday at the age of 95 at their ranch in Virginia.
Duvall will forever be the advisors Tom Hagen a The godfather, where he made irrefutable offers as advisor to the Corleone family, and Colonel Kilgore, who loved the smell of napalm in the morning, in Apocalypse Now, both by Francis Ford Coppola. But thanks to his talent, he worked for seven decades in cinema. He won the Oscar for Thanks and favors, although he achieved other nominations with the two films mentioned by Coppola, The gift of courage, Road to heaven, Civil action y The judge. Not bad for someone whose first film didn’t say a word (he played the quiet, lonely Boo Radley in to kill a mockingbird in 1962), although he was already seasoned from theater and television.
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