Obituary: Hollywood legend Robert Duvall dies aged 95 after award-winning on screen career
By Gemma Peplow, culture and entertainment reporter
Hollywood icon Robert Duvall, star of films including The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, died at the age of 95.
Duvall grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a Navy admiral and an amateur actress.
After graduating from Principia College in ​Illinois and serving in the US Army, he moved to New York, where he lived with Dustin Hoffman and befriended Gene Hackman when the three were struggling acting students.
He appeared in various Broadway and off-Broadway plays, including productions of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and A View From The Bridge, and had TV roles before making his big screen debut in the 1963 adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, playing Arthur “Boo” Radley.
During his prolific career on screen, Duvall created a range of unforgettable characters that made him one of Hollywood’s greats.
Duvall received seven Academy Award nominations in total – taking home the statuette for best actor in 1984 for Tender Mercies, in which he played a country music star recovering from alcoholism – and was also nominated for eight Golden Globe awards.