Characters Missed

Even if they weren't starring roles, Robert Duvall's characters always have been significant, to carry each films themselves.  His career spanned for seven decades, even from his first in "To Kill a Mocking Bird (1962)", his presence was impressive as the lead.

It doesn' have to be his Oscar winning "Tender Mercies (1983)", Robert Duvall's most definitive has been Tom Hagen in "The Godfather", and Lt Col Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now", as he later attributed his success, quality of titles, to 'Francis Ford Coppola'.

Since his Emmy awarded 1989 TV mini-series "Lonesome Dove" to "Days of Thunder" with Tom Cruise, "The Judge" with Robert Downey Jr. in 2014, Robert Duvall has been a father figure, to most of his entire works.