"Any tally of the great film and small screen actors of our era undeniably includes him in the front rank (Vincent Canby called him, at a mid-career point, America's Olivier), and he worked with some of the best of that elite group. Not only convincingly naturalistic onscreen, he bore a humility that made him perhaps the least self-mythologizing of the lot. His lack of pretension, reflected in performances that found power in subtlety, only added to the admiration of his peers and the public."
""Being an actor," Duvall said near the end of his career, "You live an imaginary existence between 'action' and 'cut'. When you live between those two words, you try to create something that's from yourself, that's alive, and legitimate and truthful.""
"Consider his take on shooting the first two films of the "Godfather" trilogy with Frances Ford Coppola-alongside Marlon Brando, with James Caan, Al Pacino and John Cazale as his brothers: "We didn't talk a lot about this and that, this and that - we just kind of went ahead with our natural impulses.""
Robert Duvall died at 95, remembered as an Oscar-winning actor and a central figure of New Hollywood. He embodied naturalistic, subtle performances and a humility that minimized self-mythologizing. Colleagues and critics placed him among the era's greatest, with Vincent Canby comparing him to Olivier. Duvall described acting as living an imaginary existence between 'action' and 'cut', striving for authenticity. He collaborated closely with Francis Ford Coppola and co-starred with Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan and John Cazale on The Godfather films, relying on natural impulses. He gave revealing interviews detailing his memory of a key Godfather scene.
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