He played the elusive renegade Col. Kurtz, who had become a godlike figure to jungle tribal natives
Nevertheless, the depiction of Kurtz as a god-like leader of a 
tribe of natives and his malarial fever, Kurtz's written .... Michael in The Godfather 
and he became their top choice to play Willard, but the actor had already 
accepted... [DOC] [TLE] Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) - Wikipedia [PAR] Kurtz is a central fictional character in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of 
Darkness.