{"id":2284973,"date":"2026-02-17T01:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284973"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:37:03","slug":"francis-ford-coppola-remembers-robert-duvall-such-a-great-actor-and-such-an-essential-part-of-american-zoetrope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/francis-ford-coppola-remembers-robert-duvall-such-a-great-actor-and-such-an-essential-part-of-american-zoetrope\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ford Coppola Remembers Robert Duvall: \u2018Such a Great Actor and Such an Essential Part of American Zoetrope\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000338\/\">Francis Ford Coppola<\/a> took to Instagram on Monday afternoon to honor his longtime collaborator and friend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000380\/\">Robert Duvall<\/a>, who died on Sunday at the age of 95.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a blow to learn of the loss of Robert Duvall,\u201d Coppola wrote. \u201cSuch a great actor and such an essential part of American Zoetrope from its beginning: \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064873\/\">The Rain People<\/a>,\u2019 \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071360\/\">The Conversation<\/a>,\u2019 \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068646\/\">The Godfather<\/a>,\u2019 \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071562\/\">The Godfather Part II<\/a>,\u2019 \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078788\/\">Apocalypse Now<\/a>,\u2019 \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066434\/\">Thx 1138<\/a>,\u2019 \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0283897\/\">Assassination Tango.<\/a>&#8216;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Coppola, he collaborated with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14119349\/\">Duvall<\/a> on seven films throughout his career: \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064873\/\">The Rain People<\/a>\u201d (1969), \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066434\/\">Thx 1138<\/a>\u201d (1971), \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068646\/\">The Godfather<\/a>\u201d (1972), \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071360\/\">The Conversation<\/a>\u201d (1974), \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071562\/\">The Godfather Part II<\/a>\u201d (1974), \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078788\/\">Apocalypse Now<\/a>\u201d (1979) and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0283897\/\">Assassination Tango<\/a>\u201d (2002).<\/p>\n<p>Fellow \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071562\/\">Godfather Part II<\/a>\u201d stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000134\/\">Robert De Niro<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000199\/\">Al Pacino<\/a> also paid tribute to Duvall on Monday. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1432209\/\">Pacino<\/a> wrote in a statement shared with Variety, \u201cIt was an honor to have worked with Robert Duvall. He was a born actor as they say,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/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.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ford Coppola took to Instagram on Monday afternoon to honor his longtime collaborator and friend Robert Duvall, who died on Sunday at the age of 95. \u201cWhat a blow to learn of the loss of Robert Duvall,\u201d Coppola wrote. \u201cSuch a great actor and such an essential part of American Zoetrope from its beginning: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284974,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2284973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Francis-Ford-Coppola-Remembers-Robert-Duvall-\u2018Such-a-Great-Actor.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284973","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=2284973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284975,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284973\/revisions\/2284975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}