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A number of press stories have implied that Poshepny was the model for Colonel Walter Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now, [11] [12] [better source needed] though director Francis Ford Coppola has denied this, citing Robert B. Rheault as the actual inspiration.
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, portrayed by Marlon Brando, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. Colonel Kurtz is based on the character of a nineteenth-century ivory trader, also called Kurtz , from the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad .
In 1969, during the Vietnam War, jaded MACV-SOG operative Captain Benjamin L. Willard is summoned to I Field Force headquarters in Nha Trang.The officers there tell him that U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is waging a brutal war against NVA, Viet Cong, and Khmer Rouge forces without permission from his commanders.
Robert Rheault was born October 31, 1925, to Charles Auguste and Rosamond (née Bradley) Rheault in Westwood, a suburb of Boston.His father had served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was stationed in Labrador where he met Rosamond Bradley, from a prominent Boston family, who had been working at the Grenfell Medical Mission prior to immigrating to the United States in 1924.
In Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen stars as Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army Captain assigned to "terminate the command" of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando. A film documenting the production, titled Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, was released in 1991. It chronicles a series of difficulties and challenges that ...
After a lifetime of secrecy, a decorated veteran came out as gay in his obituary. Col. Edward Thomas Ryan, who is said to have lived most of his life in Rennselaer, New York, was a brother, uncle ...
Kurtz was born in Davenport, Iowa, the third child of Dora Lee (née Fenton) and Frank Allen Kurtz, Sr., an insurance salesman. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri . [ 6 ] Kurtz became interested in flying at age 16, and in 1935 flew an open cockpit plane, setting a speed record flight from Los Angeles to Mexico City to ...
Colonel North Vietnam October 25, 1967 A6A Intruder Pilot Bobby W. Abshire Marine Corps Corporal Quảng Nam Province May 21, 1966 UH-1E Helicopter Crew Chief Richard F. Abshire † Marine Corps Sergeant Quảng Trị Province May 2, 1968 Platoon sergeant John T. Adams † Marine Corps Lance Corporal Hill 488, Quảng Tín Province June 16, 1966