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Robert Selden Duvall (January 5, 1931 – February 15, 2026) was an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Duvall began appearing in theater in the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s, playing Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and appearing in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), as Major Frank Burns in the blockbuster comedy M*A*S*H (1970) and the lead role in THX 1138 (1971), as well as Horton Foote's adaptation of William Faulkner's Tomorrow (1972), which was developed at The Actors Studio and is his personal favorite. This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in commercially successful films. He has starred in numerous films and television series, including The Twilight Zone (1963), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), Tender Mercies (1983) (which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor), The Natural (1984), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Days of Thunder (1990), Falling Down (1993), Secondhand Lions (2003), The Judge (2014), and Widows (2018). His final role was in The Pale Blue Eye (2022).
A small West Virginia town is mysteriously transported back in time to 1632 Germany, landing in the midst of the brutal Thirty Years' War. The residents of Grantville, armed with modern knowledge and technology, must navigate a world of religious conflict, political intrigue, and medieval warfare. Led by Mike Stivers and supported by a diverse group of townspeople—engineers, doctors, teachers, and soldiers—they attempt to survive and build a new society while preventing catastrophic historical events. As word spreads of these mysterious Americans with advanced knowledge, various European powers seek to exploit, capture, or ally with them. The story explores themes of cultural clash, technological advantage, moral responsibility, and the unintended consequences of changing history. The Grantville community must balance their desire to improve the world with the dangers of disrupting the timeline, all while forging unlikely alliances with historical figures and navigating complex political landscapes that threaten their survival and the fate of Europe itself.
