Actor Robert Duvall dies

The star of the films “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” Robert Duvall died at the age of 95 at his ranch home in Virginia, USA. His wife Luciana Duval announced the death of the iconic actor.

“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 an Academy Award-winning actor, director and storyteller. To me, he was just everything,” Mrs. Duval wrote on Facebook.

Robert Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1983 film Tender Mercies. In the film, he played alcoholic singer-songwriter Mac Sledge, who sought to change his life and achieve spiritual resurrection.

Duvall was also nominated for an Oscar six times, including for his role as loyal mafia consigliere Tom Hagen in the first two films of The Godfather. However, Duvall acquired full-fledged status as a cult actor after his role as the maniacal Lieutenant Colonel William Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola's war epic Apocalypse Now.

In one scene, Duvall utters one of the most famous lines in the history of cinema: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” says his hero, who is in love with war, and then philosophically adds that someday “this war will end.”

His acting career spanned almost six decades. During this time, Duval took part in the creation of dozens of outstanding films, but his favorite role, as Duval himself often recalled , remained the role in the 1989 television mini-series. In the film Lonesome Dove, based on the novel by Larry McMurtry, he played a courageous and wise Texas Ranger turned cowboy.

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