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February 2026

‘An incredible human being’: readers on their memories of Robert Duvall

‘Balding, rawhide-lean, just under six feet tall’: the real life soldier behind Robert Duvall’s Apocalypse Now role

‘His friendship changed my life’: 25 years of camaraderie with Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall obituary

• Steve McQueen on working with Robert Duvall: ‘He was the rock. He brought gravity’

• Share your tributes and memories of Robert Duvall

• Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now and Godfather star, dies aged 95

• Robert Duvall: a life in pictures

• double quotation markRobert Duvall was a vigorous and subtle actor who always performed with passion and conviction

Peter Bradshaw

December 2022

Brief letters
The comic genius of Victor Lewis-Smith

Ranked
Robert Duvall’s 20 best performances – ranked!

June 2022

Hustle review – Adam Sandler scores in rags to riches tale

Hustle review – Adam Sandler brings his A-game to Netflix’s glorified NBA advert

February 2022

The Godfather review – a brutal sweep of magnificent storytelling

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama

August 2019

Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film'

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Apocalypse Now: Final Cut review – crazed exposé of the heart of darkness

September 2018

First look review
Widows review – Steve McQueen dazzles with masterful thriller
The 12 Years a Slave Oscar-winner turns an 80s Lynda La Plante miniseries into a muscular, ferociously entertaining crowd-pleaser packed with superb performances

September 2017

Harry Dean Stanton obituary

The long-time David Lynch collaborator left a legacy of quintessentially American roles that spanned decades and won him an army of admirers

June 2016

From the Guardian archive
Falling Down and Jamón Jamón reviewed – archive
3 June 1993: Joel Schumacher tries for a Taxi Driver of the nineties, while Bigas Luna’s comedy suggests Spain is full of people unable to contain their appetites

March 2015

Robert Duvall: ‘Whatshisname should have won the Oscar’

As he debuts his western Wild Horses, the ‘American Olivier’ talks about his debt to Ken Loach, the easiest way to win an Oscar and what Brando would think of Matthew McConaughey

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