Actor Robert Duvall has passed at 95. This veteran of stage, screen, and TV for seven decades achieved status as an actor's actor. He guest starred in numerous TV shows including The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and the classic miniseries, Lonesome Dove. Nominated five times for Emmy Awards, he won twice. Yet it is his career as a screen actor that he is most known starting with his turn as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, Frank Burns in M*A*S*H, Tom Hagen in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, and Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. He starred in other major films like Network, The Seven Percent Solution, The Great Santini, The Natural, Open Range, and Tender Mercies for which he won an Oscar as Best Actor. He had been recognized for six other Academy Award nominations. This producer/director/writer had a career linking past and present Hollywood that encompassed George Lucas' first film THX 1138 through Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation to Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher.
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