{"id":2284538,"date":"2026-02-16T19:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284538"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:35:44","slug":"godfather-apocalypse-now-star-robert-duvall-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/godfather-apocalypse-now-star-robert-duvall-dies-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Godfather,&#8217; &#8216;Apocalypse Now&#8217; star Robert Duvall dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Robert_Duvall\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Robert Duvall\" class=\"tpstyle\">Robert Duvall<\/a> died Sunday at age 95. His wife, Luciana, shared the news on his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RobertDuvallOfficial\/posts\/pfbid0WGqtC9fNEPtTpFwv5WtsQen31nUSkunt13QMTz84vuAToborwYSgsDifnhBzk8cTl\" target=\"_blank\">official Facebook page<\/a> Monday and provided the statement to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/16\/movies\/robert-duvall-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/16\/entertainment\/robert-duvall-death\" target=\"_blank\">celebrity.land<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;His passion for craft was matched only by his deep love for characters, a great meal, and holding court.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><emb><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRobertDuvallOfficial%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0WGqtC9fNEPtTpFwv5WtsQen31nUSkunt13QMTz84vuAToborwYSgsDifnhBzk8cTl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"814\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/emb>\n<\/p>\n<p>Duvall won an Oscar for his role in the 1984 country music drama <i>Tender Mercies<\/i>. He also produced 2009&#8217;s <i>Crazy Heart<\/i>, which landed star Jeff Bridges an Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>He was also Oscar-nominated for his role as Corleone consigliere Tom Hagen in <i>The Godfather<\/i>, a role he reprised in its sequel, a tough military father in <i>The Great Santini,<\/i> a preacher in <i>The Apostle<\/i>, a lawyer in <i>A Civil Action<\/i> and an aging judge in <i>The Judge. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>In his Oscar-nominated role in <i>Apocalypse Now<\/i>, Duvall spoke two memorable quotes, &#8220;I love the smell of napalm in the morning,&#8221; and &#8220;Charlie don&#8217;t surf.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Duvall directed five movies, including <i>The Apostle, Angelo My Love, Assassination Tango, Wild Horses<\/i> and the documentary <i>We&#8217;re Not the Jet Set.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Since 1960s television, other memorable roles include the role of Boo Radley in <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>, Robert Altman&#8217;s <i>M*A*S*H<\/i>, George Lucas&#8217;s debut film <i>THX 1138<\/i>, the TV miniseries <i>Lonesome Dove, Days of Thunder, Falling Down, Open Range, Secondhand Lions<\/i> and <i>Widows<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>His last role was the 2022 movie <i>The Pale Blue Eye.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\" onclick=\"st_ss_sh531();\">\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"stph_caption\">\n<p>Robert Duvall<\/p>\n<p>Actor Robert Duvall attends the Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on February 2, 2015. Duvall an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/2026\/02\/16\/Robert-Duvall-dies-Godfather-Apocalypse-Now\/6611771266563\/\" target=\"_blank\">award-winning actor<\/a>, best known for his roles in &#8220;The Godfather&#8221; and &#8220;Apocalypse Now,&#8221; died at the age of 95 on February 15. Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/News_Photos\/lp\/21dc1310d0611de9f4bc339b25b612ee\/\" target=\"_blank\">License Photo<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.upi.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212; Robert Duvall died Sunday at age 95. His wife, Luciana, shared the news on his official Facebook page Monday and provided the statement to The New York Times and celebrity.land. &#8220;Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;His passion for craft was matched only by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,373404],"class_list":["post-2284538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-robert-duvall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Godfather-Apocalypse-Now-star-Robert-Duvall-dies-at-95.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284540,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284538\/revisions\/2284540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}