"That handsome face and head gave him the look of a Roman emperor from Waxahachie, Texas or a three-star general playing the country music circuit. Duvall was famously bald (the rare roles needing hairpieces always looked artificial on him) and so he looked the same age almost all his acting life: forever in his vigorous fortysomething prime though often playing figures complicated with tenderness and woundedness."
"One was Tom Hagen, the quiet, self-effacing consigliere to the Corleone crime family in The Godfather (1972), with a complex relationship both with the Don himself, played by Marlon Brando, and his youngest son and heir, the coldly imperious Michael, played by Al Pacino. And the second was his extraordinary turn as the surf-crazed Wagner enthusiast Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979),"
Robert Duvall possessed a foghorn voice and a bull-like, virile presence, bringing energy and heart to films for more than sixty years. His handsome, often bald visage suggested a Roman emperor from Waxahachie, Texas or a three-star general on the country music circuit, keeping him visually in a vigorous fortysomething prime while often portraying tender, wounded figures. His career included notable roles in To Kill a Mockingbird, M*A*S*H, The Conversation and Network. Coppola cast him in two defining 1970s roles: Tom Hagen, the quiet, self-effacing consigliere in The Godfather, and Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore, a surf-crazed, Wagner-loving commander in Apocalypse Now. Hagen remained one of his subtlest, most misunderstood performances, calm and reserved, an administrator and COO figure.
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