Robert Duvall Always Struck the Balance

Maybe the most startling thing about the news that Robert Duvall died on Sunday at the age of 95 is that Robert Duvall was 95. On screen, he was middle-aged for so long—like Meryl Streep, he seemed to spend about 30 years in his 40s—that he was hard to imagine as an elderly man, even if, had you stopped to think about it, you must have known he was one.