"The world lost one of its best actors this week in Robert Duvall, leading fans and longtime collaborators like Francis Ford Coppola to share clips and memories of the singular talent. A performer who grounded every film in which he appeared, Duvall began acting on the stage in the 1950s before breaking into film with an unforgettable turn as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962, so we thought we would round up a few of his most undersung performances."
"Duvall stars alongside Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, E.G. Marshall, and Marlon Brando. Duvall is a highlight of the film, which is about small-town tension and corruption more than it is just a standard prison movie, and it foreshadowed many roles for him in the '60s and '70s in which he would play old-fashioned men struggling through a new world."
Robert Duvall began acting on stage in the 1950s and broke into film with Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He earned seven Oscar nominations and won once for Tender Mercies. Signature credits include The Godfather, Network, and Apocalypse Now, but many powerful performances remained undersung. He appeared in an Arthur Penn prison-break film that emphasized small-town tension and corruption and foreshadowed roles as old-fashioned men adapting to a changing world. He also starred in a Faulkner-derived drama adapted by Horton Foote as Fentry, an isolated Mississippi farmer who shelters a pregnant drifter. Multiple titles are available on VOD.
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