Robert Duvall, gone at 95

One of the all time iconic lines from Apocalypse Now – “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

And the greatest cowboy actor? I loved him as a cowboy. The picture is from 2003, “Open Range”.

The quote in the link below is from the WSJ, but the actual link takes you to a nice obit article on NPR.

Duvall was particularly drawn to the western, a genre he returned to repeatedly throughout his career. As the outlaw “Lucky” Ned Pepper, he went up against John Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn in “True Grit” (1969); he portrayed a cattleman alongside Kevin Costner in “Open Range” (2003); and saw his star rise exponentially as former Texas Ranger Augustus “Gus” McCrae in the hit TV miniseries “Lonesome Dove” (1989)—based on the novel by Larry McMurtry—which he called his favorite role.