{"id":2296621,"date":"2026-02-24T01:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296621"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:06:38","slug":"robert-duvalls-hit-80s-western-series-helped-revitalize-the-then-failing-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/robert-duvalls-hit-80s-western-series-helped-revitalize-the-then-failing-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Duvall&#8217;s Hit &#8217;80s Western Series Helped Revitalize The Then-Failing Genre"},"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\/nm0000380\/\">Robert Duvall<\/a> passed away on February 15, 2026, leaving behind a legendary filmography that includes movies like &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068646\/\">The Godfather<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078788\/\">Apocalypse Now<\/a>.&#8221; That said, fans of his small-screen work will remember his turn as Augustus &#8220;Gus&#8221; McCrae in the 1989 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a> miniseries &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096639\/\">Lonesome Dove<\/a>,&#8221; often regarded as an all-time classic Western, and one that helped revitalize horse operas just as the genre seemed ready to ride off into the sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Based on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0573505\/\">Larry McMurtry<\/a>&#8216;s novel of the same name, &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096639\/\">Lonesome Dove<\/a>&#8221; follows two former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0188056\/\">Texas Rangers<\/a> (played by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14119349\/\">Duvall<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000169\/\">Tommy Lee Jones<\/a>) as they lead a cattle drive from Texas to Montana.<\/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>Robert Duvall passed away on February 15, 2026, leaving behind a legendary filmography that includes movies like &#8220;The Godfather&#8221; and &#8220;Apocalypse Now.&#8221; That said, fans of his small-screen work will remember his turn as Augustus &#8220;Gus&#8221; McCrae in the 1989 CBS miniseries &#8220;Lonesome Dove,&#8221; often regarded as an all-time classic Western, and one that helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2296622,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2296621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/Robert-Duvalls-Hit-80s-Western-Series-Helped-Revitalize-The-Then-Failing.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296621","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=2296621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296623,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296621\/revisions\/2296623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}