"I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning" – the Line From the Film Has Become a Catchphrase

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Oscar-winning, four-time Golden Globe winner, two-time Emmy winner Robert Duvall died earlier this year at the age of 95, on February 15, 2026. Duvall played a number of prominent roles in films, but many consider his most memorable performance to have been in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. That brief part is still talked about by fans, but few know that the character of Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore was not a figment of Duvall's imaginatio…