I’ll wager that virtually all my readers have seen a movie starring Robert Duvall. And it’s a similarly safe bet that everyone has loved at least one of these.

I say this with confidence because the celebrated actor — who died Feb. 16 at the age of 95 — had such a long and wide-ranging career.

From his first brief appearance as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird to his final role in the period mystery Pale Blue Eye, Duvall’s work spanned sixty years: more than 90 films in a vast array of genres.

Here’s a selection:

True Grit (1969) – Duvall plays outlaw Lucky Ned Pepper in this classic John Wayne Western adapted from Charles Portis’ sensational book. The aptly named Barry Pepper took Duvall’s role for the Coen brothers’ remake in 2010.

The Godfather 1 & 2 (1971, 1974) – Duvall plays the Corleones’ lawyer and adviser in both of Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark dramas — the latter being the only “Part 2” ever to win a Best Picture Oscar.

The Conversation (1974) – Duvall took a small but vital role for this chilling exercise in paranoia — also directed by Coppola. Gene Hackman stars as a sound technician whose effort to decode a public/private conversation plunges him into a nightmare. Harrison Ford also has a small early role.

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) – Essentially Sherlock Holmes fan-fiction from writer-director Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II, IV and VI). The film pairs Holmes (Nicol Williamson) with Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) as they battle both Moriarty (Laurence Olivier) and Holmes’s oft-forgotten cocaine addiction (yes, it’s in the books!). Along with a dandy Victorian-era train chase, Meyer’s plot gives the famed psychiatrist fodder for his Oedipus theory. Duvall is a riot as Watson — though many didn’t care for his British accent.

Network (1976) – At this point, you have to start wondering how Duvall got himself cast in one famed masterpiece after another. Here, he has a supporting role in a towering satire of network television that got tapped for 10 Oscars. Impressive cast includes Peter Finch (“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going got take this anymore!”), Faye Dunaway and William Holden — with the veteran Ned Beatty at the top of his game.

Apocalypse Now (1979) – Working yet again with Coppola, Duvall gets one of cinema’s most famous lines (“I love the smell of napalm in the morning”). AN is a sprawling indictment of American action in Vietnam, loosely based on Conrad’s classic Heart of Darkness.

The Great Santini (1979) – Duvall nabbed another of his seven Oscar noms in this family drama based on a novel by best-selling author Pat Conroy. Here he plays hard-nosed alcoholic Marine Corps officer Bull Meechum — “a warrior without a war” (as Wikipedia puts it) who winds up attacking those around him instead.

Tender Mercies (1983) – The actor snagged his only Oscar as Mac Sledge, a washed-up country singer who finds redemption with a sweet Christian widow and her son along a dusty Texas backroad. With a script by Horton Foote (who’d adapted To Kill a Mockingbird) and a terrific supporting cast — including a then-unknown Ellen Barkin. Duvall does his own singing and playing, and actually wrote a couple of the songs.

Lonesome Dove (1989) – Six-hour TV miniseries which the Houston Chronicle called the greatest Western ever made. Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer-winner about an epic cattle-drive from Texas to Montana, LD features a staggering cast: Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Danny Glover, Angelica Houston, Steve Buscemi — and too many more to name; it was nominated for 18 Emmys.

Cool factoid: After Santini, the producers tapped Duvall here for the similarly hard-nosed Woodrow Call — a role that went to Jones after Duvall insisted on the soft-spoken, philosophical Gus. It is now impossible to imagine anybody else in that part.

The Apostle (1997) – I’m thrilled The Apostle landed last on my chronological list — because in addition to starring, Duvall also wrote and directed this one. It’s the acclaimed tale of a disgraced Southern preacher who goes right on winning souls in spite of his many sins and failures. Co-starring Farrah Fawcett, June Carter Cash, Walt Goggins and Billy Bob Thornton, it must surely be the only movie ever to be endorsed by both Pat Robertson and Howard Stern.

And finally, a personal note: I’m writing this on vacation, where I was sure I could manage only one column during the week; I’d planned another standard vocabulary piece — but as one of Duvall’s many long-time fans, I had to jump on this instead.

I guess you could say his death left us without words.