my all time favorite actor. when it rains it pours.

rest in peace, Gus.

Edited February 16Feb 16 by Derka

Charlie don't surf!

RIP Mr Duvall.

Edited February 16Feb 16 by Bevo&Pevo

Fuck. RIP.

RIP to a legend

Sad, one of the best. He's the only person who could've played Jackson Fentry in 1972. Maybe Tom Hanks 30 years later. That's about it.

it's happening 💔

we're gonna lose more absolute legends this year, they're all so old.

my dad looks so much like him that he's actually been mistaken for him a couple times. this one actually made me cry 😢

"You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed that line."

My high school girlfriend was having dinner with her super-milfy mom in downtown Austin (Sullivan's maybe?) in the mid-90s... Right after they sat down, Duvall pulled up a chair and asked if he could join them. So they sat there for two hours having dinner with Robert Duvall.

Rubbin's racin'. RIP

Goddamn fuck this day. I’ll be in my cave watching Lonesome Dove and drinking rye whiskey poured by a surly bartender.

“To the sunny slopes, of long ago!”

RIP my favorite actor.

I mean, he WAS 95, so this was comin' sooner rather than later. But yep....still sucks. A genuine legend. The world is poorer without him in it. Can't think of anything I saw him in where he wasn't great. Shit, I loves Secondhand Lions in large part because of his performance.

RIP to the Godfather legend. Not too many of the cast left now.

9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean, he WAS 95, so this was comin' sooner rather than later. But yep....still sucks. A genuine legend. The world is poorer without him in it. Can't think of anything I saw him in where he wasn't great. Shit, I loves Secondhand Lions in large part because of his performance.

Because.

9 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

"You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed that line."

my 7th grade Texas History teacher was the best teacher i’ve ever had, and he introduced his 7th graders to Lonesome Dove every year. we did an entire unit on it. the overarching theme of his class was treating us all like adults (he referred to us as mr. or mrs.last name for example), and the Lonesome Dove unit was a part of that. this scene always stuck out in my mind as part of that process, as my 12 year old brain wasn’t ready for it, assuming that jake’s old pals wouldn’t hang him, and would understand that he just got caught up. nope. i remember having to sit with that and ponder it. that was a big deal for me. Mr.Buttrey changed my life with LD, and i am forever grateful for it.

and Pacino is pushing it 😟

8 minutes ago, Derka said:

my 7th grade Texas History teacher was the best teacher i’ve ever had, and he introduced his 7th graders to Lonesome Dove every year. we did an entire unit on it. the overarching theme of his class was treating us all like adults (he referred to us as mr. or mrs.last name for example), and the Lonesome Dove unit was a part of that. this scene always stuck out in my mind as part of that process, as my 12 year old brain wasn’t ready for it, assuming that jake’s old pals wouldn’t hang him, and would understand that he just got caught up. nope. i remember having to sit with that and ponder it. that was a big deal for me. Mr.Buttrey changed my life with LD, and i am forever grateful for it.

That is a cool story, bro.

I feel like Lonesome Dove played a part in shaping my morals as a teenager. I've read the book 3 times, but it's been a long while since the last time. Time to pick it up again.

8 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

That is a cool story, bro.

I feel like Lonesome Dove played a part in shaping my morals as a teenager. I've read the book 3 times, but it's been a long while since the last time. Time to pick it up again.

A true Texas treasure of a book, made better by great casting of the miniseries.

I read the book in one sitting. Started it in the evening, put it down 11 hours later, exactly as the first morning bell chime of the Tower was ringing, my sophomore year of college.

I read passages of it to my wife's uncle, a true Texan through-and-through, on his deathbed in his last couple of days.

Passages, man. Life is just one after another. Duvall's passing is one of those for a shitload of us.

RIP, sir

Here is Wiki's filmography.

Robert Duvall filmography - Wikipedia

I always liked his character in Joe Kidd. Plus, the speech in Secondhand Lions.

some day this war's gonna end. RIP

Rest well Boo Radley

One of the greats. God bless you and thanks for the memories.

The Judge with him and Robert Downey Jr. was some of his really good late work and they both do great acting jobs. RIP.

34 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Because.

Filmed at the Cele General Store...RIP to both

By God Woodrow, its been quite a party.

"Well, see, there’s this old bull and a young bull standing on a hill. The young bull says, 'Let’s run down and fuck one of them cows.' The old bull says, 'No, let’s walk down and fuck ’em all'"

One of my all time favorites, too many great movies to list but I'll throw this one in because what it meant to me at the time.

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Just an absurdly prolific career. Like Hackman you'd be hard pressed to find a performance that wasn't excellent. A movie maybe, but not his part of it.

2 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

Just an absurdly prolific career. Like Hackman you'd be hard pressed to find a performance that wasn't excellent. A movie maybe, but not his part of it.

Not challenging you, but if he was in a bad film I am honestly unaware of its existence. Seriously, I just scrolled his history... there are a few I have not seen... none I recall being bad. Not looking to fight about it either.

Not just the best acting ever by Duvall, but possibly the best acting ever:

Also wrote and directed by Duvall.

2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Go into a hat store and ask for the Gus, and they know what you're talking about.

6 minutes ago, Deej said:

Go into a hat store and ask for the Gus, and they know what you're talking about.

Yep. I have one.

At the ranch we've never had TV's. Too remote and I've never wanted to mess with dishes or anything else. What we do have in an ancient TV/VCR combo that has had Lonesome Dove on loop for decades now. It just plays, rewinds itself, starts again until you pop in another tape.

Growing up my first single action 22lr. pistola with belt & holster was my "sassy bandit" rig. This just sucks.

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

My high school girlfriend was having dinner with her super-milfy mom in downtown Austin (Sullivan's maybe?) in the mid-90s... Right after they sat down, Duvall pulled up a chair and asked if he could join them. So they sat there for two hours having dinner with Robert Duvall.

Rubbin's racin'. RIP

Questions abound, including:

(1) Did you ever bang the mom?

(2) Did Duvall bang either your girlfriend or the mom? Or both?

(3) Where are the pics of said females? They aren't loading for some reason.

RIP, Legend.

2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Because.

while looking to find that scene....I came upon this, alternate ending to the movie

RIP to a legend. From Boo Radley to Gus.

21 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

while looking to find that scene....I came upon this, alternate ending to the movie

That movie is fantastic. One night 20+ years ago I woke up and couldn't fall back asleep so I went to the living room and turned on the tv.

It was 3:00a.m. or so and Seconhand Lions was just starting. I'd never heard of it so figured it'd be perfect to start watching because I wouldn't give a fuck if I fell asleep.

Turned out to be a great movie, what an awesome surprise.

R.I.P. Robert Duvall

Ordinarily, I would assume I'd be hard pressed to find a Surly thread in which I agree with every post. But here we are.

RIP to a legend.

Dammit!

Such a great actor, he was great in just about every part he played, even the original Frank Burns from MASH (movie)

RIP RD

Well crap, this is close to a when we lose Clint Eastwood type loss. Legend. On my short list of actors I would have loved to sit and have a casual conversation over a meal or a drink.

5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean, he WAS 95, so this was comin' sooner rather than later. But yep....still sucks. A genuine legend. The world is poorer without him in it. Can't think of anything I saw him in where he wasn't great. Shit, I loves Secondhand Lions in large part because of his performance.

When I see this scene, I KNOW Duvall did those things.

I'm gonna have to watch the Oscars this year just for the Memorium.

A little scheduled tear duct maintenance

3 hours ago, KaiserSoze said:

That movie is fantastic. One night 20+ years ago I woke up and couldn't fall back asleep so I went to the living room and turned on the tv.

It was 3:00a.m. or so and Seconhand Lions was just starting. I'd never heard of it so figured it'd be perfect to start watching because I wouldn't give a fuck if I fell asleep.

Turned out to be a great movie, what an awesome surprise.

R.I.P. Robert Duvall

CSB my BIL did the on-site sound production for that movie.

5 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

CSB my BIL did the on-site sound production for that movie.

CSB indeed!

3 minutes ago, KaiserSoze said:

CSB indeed!

He’s retired now. Had an interesting career.

IMDb

John Pritchett | Sound Department, Actor, Second Unit Dir...

Known for: Road to Perdition, Avengers: Endgame, There Will Be Blood

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Robert Duvall tells Letterman the only THE GODFATHER story you need to hear (1993) 😂 legend

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He made 2 calls. Second one was long distance.

5 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Not just the best acting ever by Duvall, but possibly the best acting ever:

Also wrote and directed by Duvall.

Also largely financed by Duvall.