Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor whose remarkable career spanned more than seven decades, has died at 95.

His wife, Luciana Duvall, confirmed that he passed away on Sunday.

“Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time,” Luciana, 54, shared on Facebook Monday. She added that Duvall “passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.”

Robert Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker whose career has spanned more than six decades. Known for his quiet intensity and commanding screen presence, he became one of Hollywood’s most respected performers.

He earned an Academy Award for Best Actor for Tender Mercies (1983) and received additional Oscar nominations for roles in The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini, The Apostle and A Civil Action. His portrayal of Tom Hagen in The Godfather and Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now remain among the most iconic performances in film history.

A graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York, Duvall trained alongside contemporaries like Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. Beyond acting, he has also directed and produced films, including The Apostle.

According to Page Six, Robert Duvall landed his first major film role as Boo Radley in 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird, after being recommended by screenwriter Horton Foote, whom he had previously worked with on the 1957 play The Midnight Caller.

Duvall went on to earn his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Tom Hagen in 1972’s The Godfather, reprising the role in 1974’s The Godfather Part II. He later reflected that the cast quickly realized they were part of something special.

He did not return for 1990’s The Godfather Part III due to reported salary disagreements.

Duvall also reunited with director Francis Ford Coppola for 1979’s Apocalypse Now, earning another Oscar nomination and delivering the iconic line, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” per Page Six.

Per USA Today, Robert Duvall, who was married four times, never seriously considered retiring from acting. In 2002, he starred in, wrote, produced and directed the crime thriller Assassination Tango alongside his Argentinian partner Luciana Pedraza, whom he married in 2005. The couple notably shared the same birthday.

More than a decade later, Duvall earned his seventh Academy Award nomination for his role as a troubled small-town judge in The Judge, starring opposite Robert Downey Jr. as his estranged son. At age 84, the nomination made him the oldest actor ever nominated for an Oscar at the time — a record later surpassed by Christopher Plummer, per USA Today.

Robert Duvall continued working well into his late 80s and 90s. In 2018, he portrayed a racist Chicago political operative in Widows, directed by Steve McQueen.

He later appeared in the 2021 high school football drama 12 Mighty Orphans and the 2022 basketball comedy Hustle, starring Adam Sandler — underscoring his enduring presence on screen across genres.