Robert Duvall Has Merged With The Infinite

Actor Robert Duvall has passed.  He was 95.  

Gen-X and older have a place in their hearts and minds for Duvall who starred in *something* we loved along the way, and was key to why we loved it.  He has 146 credits listed on IMDB as an actor, 14 as a producer and 5 as a director.  

Like most folks my age, it was his turn as Tom Hagen in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.  But swiftly after, it was Apocalypse Now, Colors, The Natural, THX-1138, MASH and countless others.  

Duvall has a weightiness to his performances, a believability that served him well in parts like Tom Hagen, but also sold the absurd (see Lt. Col. Kilgore) as real.  Truly one of the greats of his generation - and part of why we were so lucky to get that cast and crew on The Godfather to begin with.  

I admit, there are large parts of his filmography I've never seen - I read Lonesome Dove instead of watching it, for example.  But that's going to happen with someone with so many credits, almost all of which people will say were solid.

He'd obviously slowed down, but he still has one more credit as in post-production even now.  

Here's to one of the greats.