Very fine actor Robert Duvall has passed. I greatly appreciated his work in the first two Godfather movies. Duvall had many other memorable roles. Check out “Network” (1976) and “Lawman” ( 1971), for instance. But there were many other interesting roles.
The early George Lucas dystopian science fiction film “THX 1138” (1971) featured Duvall as a drug-controlled inhabitant of an ordered, sterile future world. Duvall rebels against the strict environment and escapes to an outside world that is not harshly monitored and climate controlled and where all needs are provided. Is he equipped to survive in “The Wild”?
“The Killer Elite” (1975) finds Duvall as the scheming Hansen, a covert agent operating for the CIA who double crosses his partner James Caan in this engaging Sam Peckinpah directed Action/Martial Arts picture.
Rober Duvall contributed his considerable acting talent to quite a few moving pictures throughout his life and will be missed.
