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Robert Selden Duvall, iconic actor and longtime Virginia resident, died on February 15, 2026, after a 70-year career in theatre, film, and television

Won an Academy Award for Best Actor for Tender Mercies (1983), received six additional Oscar nominations, and earned Emmy Awards for Stalin and Broken Trail

Notable film roles included Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Hagen in The Godfather films, and Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now

Settled in Virginia in the 1990s, operating cattle and equestrian farms in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, and received the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush in 2005

Advocated for preservation of the Wilderness Battlefield and Virginia's historic sites, receiving the 2018 Richmonds Medal as the first American recipient for landscape conservation efforts