Robert Duvall in his Oscar-winning role in Tender Mercies
The death was announced yesterday of actor Robert Duvall, whose long career included a string of memorable performances, several Oscar nominations, and one win for the film Tender Mercies. Duvall was 95 years old.
Duvall started his movie career as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, but it was really in the 1970s that Duval started to get his best roles, in the first two Godfather films, or in The Conversation, where he played the director of the business that hired Gene Hackman.
Robert Duvall in the middle, with Harrison Ford and Gene Hackman, in The Conversation
More good roles came, including his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Great Santini; in all Duvall received three Best Actor nominations and four Supporting Actor nominations, although he only won for Tender Mercies.
The Great Santini
The Great Santini and Tender Mercies are both showing up in the latter half of 31 Days of Oscar. In the meantime, there's also an early role as Maj. Frank Burns in M*A*S*H which will be on FXM on Feb. 22. (Bud Cort, who died last week, also has a small role.) I've got Apocalypse Now on my DVR and plan to finally get around to watching it and putting up a review in the near future. I assume TCM will have a programming tribute sometime after 31 Days of Oscar, more likely in April.
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