Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning American actor known for landmark films including “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” has died. He was 95.
His death was announced in a statement posted by his wife, Luciana Duvall. “Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home,” she wrote.
Duvall won an Academy Award for best actor in 1983 for his portrayal of a washed-up country singer in “Tender Mercies.” He was nominated six other times.
His most memorable characters include the soft-spoken, loyal mob consigliere Tom Hagen in the first two “Godfather” films and the maniacal Lieutenant Colonel William Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic “Apocalypse Now.”
