BOSTON — Academy Award winner Robert Duvall is one of the spectators at the racketeering trial of reputed gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.
The celebrated actor sat in the back of the Boston courtroom yesterday.
The 82-year-old Duvall has had a long TV and film career, including starring roles in “The Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II.” In those mob epics, he played Tom Hagen, a lawyer and adviser to the Corleone family.
He won a Best Actor Oscar in 1984 for his role in “Tender Mercies.”
He has been shooting a movie, “The Judge,” in Shelburne, Mass., this month. Duvall plays the title character in the film, which also stars Robert Downey Jr., Billy Bob Thornton and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Bulger, who had been on the run for 16 years, faces a life sentence for mob murders in a sensational trial that has riveted Boston and attracted large crowds.