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Robert Duvall: a life in pictures
The Godfather and Apocalypse Now star Robert Duvall has died at the age of 95. As well as having one of the most famous lines in cinema history – ‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning’ – he featured in many other classic films. Here we look back at his career
Greg Whitmore
Mon 16 Feb 2026
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
Duvall’s first film role was as Boo Radley in the Harper Lee adaptation – here he is with Mary Badham as Scout and Phillip Alford as Jen
True Grit, 1969
Duvall as Ned Pepper with Kim Darby as Mattie Ross in the classic western
THX 1138, 1971
Robert Duvall in George Lucas’s directorial debut
The Godfather, 1972
Duvall was nominated for the Oscar and Bafta for best supporting actor for his performance as the mob lawyer Tom Hagen. Pictured here are Al Lettieri as Sollozzo, Abe Vigoda as Tessio, Richard Castellano as Clemenza, John Cazale as Fredo Corleone, Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone, Duvall as Tom Hagen and James Caan as Sonny CorleonePhotograph: Paramount
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, 1972
Duvall as Jesse James, Cliff Robertson as Cole Younger, Luke Askew as Jim Younger and RG Armstrong as Clell MillerPhotograph: Universal
The Godfather Part II, 1974
Duvall with Al Pacino as Michael Corleone
Network, 1976
Duvall, seen with Faye Dunaway, was nominated for the Bafta for best supporting actor for Sidney Lumet’s satire on the television industry
The Eagle Has Landed, 1976
Apocalypse Now, 1979
Duvall won the Golden Globe and the Bafta and was nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance as Lt Col Bill Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Vietnam war movies
The Great Santini, 1979
Duvall was nominated for the Academy Award for best actor for his role as Lt Col Wilbur ‘Bull’ MeechumPhotograph: Ronald Grant
True Confessions, 1981
Duvall won the best actor award at the Venice film festival for this crime movie with Robert De Niro
Tender Mercies, 1983
Duvall at the Academy Awards in 1984 where he won the best actor Oscar for his performance as the recovering alcoholic country music singer Mac Sledge
The Lightship, 1985
Another best actor win at the Venice film festival
Colors, 1988
This police procedural, starring Duvall and Sean Penn and directed by Dennis Hopper, grittily depicted gang violence in south-central Los AngelesPhotograph: Orion
Lonesome Dove, 1989
Duvall, pictured with Tommy Lee Jones, won a Golden Globe for his role as Gus McCrae in the adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s book
The Handmaid’s Tale, 1990
Natasha Richardson as Kate and Robert Duvall as Commander in the adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novelPhotograph: Everett Collection
Stalin, 1992
Another Golden Globe win, for best actor in a miniseries or TV movie, for his role as the Soviet dictatorPhotograph: Novofilm
Falling Down, 1993
With Michael DouglasPhotograph: Ronald Grant
The Apostle, 1997
Duvall wrote, directed and starred in this Louisiana-based drama about a Pentecostal preacher, which resulted in another best actor Oscar nominationPhotograph: Butcher’s Run
A Civil Action, 1998
Duvall with John Travolta in this legal drama about environmental pollutionPhotograph: Moviestore
The Road, 2009
Duvall as Old Man, Kodi Smit-McPhee as Boy and Viggo Mortensen as Man in an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic storyPhotograph: Dimension
The Judge, 2014
At84 years and 10 days old, Duvall, pictured here with Robert Downey Jr, becamethe oldest ever nominee for the best supporting actor Oscar for his role as Judge Joseph PalmerPhotograph: Claire Folger
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