Kilgore

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Kilgore leads his cavalry into air battle to the strains of Wagner, taking out combatants in between swigs of coffee.

From Los Angeles Times

Just two months after appearing as the swaggering Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now,” Duvall offered a more intimate variation on a military man — essentially Kilgore without an actual war, just a domestic battlefield.

From Los Angeles Times

The same year, Mr. Duvall reunited with his “Godfather” director, Francis Ford Coppola, to play another pilot-colonel, this one an Army cavalry officer named Kilgore whose demented acts encapsulated the insanity of war in a whirlwind sequence in the middle of “Apocalypse Now.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The way Kilgore at first proudly offers his canteen to, but then thoughtlessly withdraws it from, an enemy soldier who is about to die is priceless, and reportedly based on a real incident.

From The Wall Street Journal

But his most memorable characters also included the soft-spoken, loyal mob consigliere Tom Hagen in the first two installments of "The Godfather" and the maniacal Lieutenant Colonel William Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now."

From Barron's