00:00He was hailed as an actor's actor.
00:02Robert Duvall is still fresh in many moviegoers' minds,
00:06as the soft-spoken lawyer Tom Hagen in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.
00:13Born in 1931 to a Navy officer father and an amateur actress mother,
00:18Duvall studied drama before spending two years in the U.S. Army.
00:22He broke onto the scene as the mysterious recluse Boo Radley
00:26in the 1962 adaptation of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
00:30He would then go on to play myriad roles,
00:32from a bullying corporate executive in the network
00:35to a washed-up country singer in the 1983 classic Tender Mercies,
00:39for which he would win the Oscar for Best Actor.
00:42But it wouldn't be his last recognition by the Academy.
00:45He would be nominated six more times,
00:48including for one of his most memorable roles as a deranged lieutenant colonel
00:52in the 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now.
00:58I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
01:00It smells like victory.
01:07His expansive and versatile career cemented him as a bona fide name in the industry,
01:12earning him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
01:14This moment that kind of confirms or reconfirms whatever legacy I have,
01:20whatever body of work I have, this kind of is symbolic of that.
01:25His wife Luciana's last words about her late husband.
01:28Robert Duvall was a storyteller.
01:30His passion for his craft matched only by his deep love for the characters he played.
01:35His passion for his life.
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