Bandit ; What you see in the Duke's films is just the way he was in life ! But when I saw and talk to him in the late 1970s he was in failling health and had lost a lot of weight, but he talked the same , walked the same , and acted the same. He was tough and sweet with the ladys and they loved him. When my wife Martha and I dropped him off at Orange County Airport and said good by , he gave my wife a Hug and a kiss on the cheek and she allmost melted . The only thing she said on the way home in the one hour flight to Paso Robles was, "That was some Man!" Chilibill 
