{"id":132091,"date":"2026-02-16T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=132091"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:18:22","slug":"legendary-actor-robert-duvall-dies-at-95-breaking-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=132091","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Actor Robert Duvall Dies At 95 &#8211; Breaking Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=132091\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=132091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-132092 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Robert-Duvall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Robert-Duvall.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Robert-Duvall-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the absolute Greats left us.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Duvall died on Sunday, 15 February at home in Virginia. He was 95.<\/p>\n<p>He was best known as the Corleone family consigliere Tom Hagen in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d earning his first of his seven Academy Award nominations.<\/p>\n<p>He reprised the role in the sequel \u201cThe Godfather Part II\u201d. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He served in the Army during the Korean War before moving to New York and studying drama under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner.<\/p>\n<p>In New York he shared an apartment with Dustin Hoffman and hung out with Gene Hackman.<\/p>\n<p>One of his earliest movie roles was in \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d as Arthur \u201cBoo\u201d Radley. He named one of his dogs Boo!<\/p>\n<p>Other movies he starred in were \u201cTrue Grit\u201d, \u201cM*A*S*H\u201d, \u201cTHX 1138\u201d, and \u201cTender Mercies\u201d for which he won the Best Actor Oscar and did his own singing.<\/p>\n<p>He starred with Tommy Lee Jones in the fantastic miniseries \u201cLonesome Dove\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Other Oscar nominations he earned were for \u201cThe Great Santini\u201d and \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, directed and costarred in \u201cThe Apostle\u201d for which he was again Oscar nominated for his acting.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 84 he earned another Oscar nomination for \u201cThe Judge\u201din 2014.<\/p>\n<p>During his long career he played a number of historical figures: Robert E. Lee, Joseph Stalin and Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Duvall is survived by his wife Luciana Pedraza.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends their condolences to The Duvall Family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpforms-container wpforms-container-full\" id=\"wpforms-126533\"><form id=\"wpforms-form-126533\" class=\"wpforms-validate wpforms-form wpforms-ajax-form\" data-formid=\"126533\" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" action=\"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F132091\" data-token=\"afc49f1d12ae298ba2f09adff83a2f8a\" data-token-time=\"1776328204\"><noscript class=\"wpforms-error-noscript\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.<\/noscript><div class=\"wpforms-field-container\"><div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-name\" data-field-id=\"1\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\">Name <span class=\"wpforms-required-label\">*<\/span><\/label><div class=\"wpforms-field-row wpforms-field-medium\"><div class=\"wpforms-field-row-block wpforms-first wpforms-one-half\"><input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1\" class=\"wpforms-field-name-first wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][1][first]\" required><label for=\"wpforms-126533-field_1\" class=\"wpforms-field-sublabel after\">First<\/label><\/div><div class=\"wpforms-field-row-block wpforms-one-half\"><input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-last\" class=\"wpforms-field-name-last wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][1][last]\" required><label for=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-last\" class=\"wpforms-field-sublabel after\">Last<\/label><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t<div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_4-container\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-text\"\n\t\t\tdata-field-type=\"text\"\n\t\t\tdata-field-id=\"4\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_4\" >Message or Name<\/label>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_4\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium\" name=\"wpforms[fields][4]\" >\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_2-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-email\" data-field-id=\"2\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_2\">Email <span class=\"wpforms-required-label\">*<\/span><\/label><input type=\"email\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_2\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][2]\" spellcheck=\"false\" required><\/div><div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_3-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-textarea\" data-field-id=\"3\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_3\">Comment or Message<\/label><textarea id=\"wpforms-126533-field_3\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium\" name=\"wpforms[fields][3]\" ><\/textarea><\/div><script>\n\t\t\t\t( function() {\n\t\t\t\t\tconst style = document.createElement( 'style' );\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle.appendChild( document.createTextNode( '#wpforms-126533-field_4-container { position: absolute !important; 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