“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 security,” his wife Luciana Duvall wrote in a post on Facebook.
American actor and director Robert Duvall’s career spanned seven decades and he was nominated for seven Academy Awards throughout his career.
In 1984, Duvall won the prestigious film award for best male lead for his role as a former country star in the western film “Tender Mercies” or “På nåd och onåd” as its Swedish title is.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Don Corleone’s advisor Tom Hagen in The Godfather.
Duvall has also appeared in a long list of major roles in films such as Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The Judge, Network and The Natural.
Duvall was born in San Diego, California in 1931 and began doing theater in New York in the 1950s. His close friends in his early years as an actor included Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman.
Robert Duvall was 95 years old.
