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Robert Duvall i september 2018. (Evan Agostini / AP)

Skådespelaren Robert Duvall är död

Skådespelaren Robert Duvall har avlidit, rapporterar TMZ. Han blev 95 år gammal.

Duvall var mest känd för sina roller i Francis Ford Coppolas ”Gudfadern” och ”Apocalypse Now” och Oscarsnominerades för båda.

”Igår tog vi farväl av min älskade make, käre vän och en av vår tids största skådespelare. Bob gick bort fridfullt hemma, omgiven av kärlek och tröst”, skriver hans hustru, argentinska Luciana Pedraza på Facebook.

Robert Duvall spelade mot henne i filmen ”Assassination Tango”, som han även själv spelade i, producerade och regisserade, med större delen av inspelningen förlagd till Buenos Aires.

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Wikipedia (en)
Robert Selden Duvall (; January 5, 1931 – February 15, 2026) was an American actor and filmmaker. With a career spanning seven decades, he is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. He has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Duvall began his career on TV with minor roles in the 1960s on The Defenders, Playhouse 90 and Armstrong Circle Theatre. He made his Broadway debut in the play Wait Until Dark in 1966. He returned to the stage in David Mamet's play American Buffalo in 1977, earning a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play nomination. He made his feature film acting debut portraying Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Other early roles include Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), M*A*S*H (1970), THX 1138 (1971), Joe Kidd (1972), and Tomorrow (1972), the last of which was developed at the Actors Studio and is his personal favorite. Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as an alcoholic former country music star in the film Tender Mercies (1983). His other Oscar-nominated films include The Godfather (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Great Santini (1979), The Apostle (1997), A Civil Action (1998), and The Judge (2014). Other notable films include The Outfit (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), True Confessions (1981), The Natural (1984), Days of Thunder (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), Falling Down (1993), The Paper (1994), Sling Blade (1996), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Open Range (2003), Crazy Heart (2009), Get Low (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), Widows (2018), and Hustle (2022). Throughout his career, Duvall has starred on numerous television programs. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for the AMC limited series Broken Trail (2006). His other Emmy-nominated roles are in the CBS miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), the HBO film Stalin (1992), and the TNT film The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996).
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