Robert Duvall actually. But his Kilgore has to be the most memorable, most quoted character in American cinema. That is what I remembered best about Duvall. I respected him even more when I read as a kid that he eschewed a life in Hollywood to his farm in my home state of Virginia.
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Was saddened quite a bit earlier toady when I saw that Robert had passed away. He had a long and varied film career but the two movies for which I remember him the most were The Great Santini (1979) and Secondhand Lions (2003).
I still will watch Secondhand Lions whenever I come across it.
Wheels
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The Great Santini was a good one for sure. As the son of an F-4 pilot who served in Vietnam I wonder how @chipwich feels about the film. (Not at all comparing Duvall’s tyrant to Dan’s awesome dad but rather the portrayal of living under a roof with someone who had the tiger by the tail so to speak.)
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Ah man… 95 is a good age though.
If he’s cremated, they have to say “Do you smell that???” Or is that poor taste?
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I’ll argue that the movie treatment of The Great Santini was in a lot of ways better than the novel it was based on.
And a lot of that had to do with Robert Duvall’s portrayal of Meachum.
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