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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).
Robert Duvall
Captain Spurgeon
for Captain Spurgeon in Deep Impact (1998 film) - Released on October 30, 1998
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Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film[3] directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film. It was released by Paramount Pictures in North America and by DreamWorks Pictures internationally on October 30, 1998. The film depicts humanity's attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile (11 km) wide comet set to collide with Earth and cause a mass extinction. Directed by Mimi Leder Written by Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin Produced by David Brown Richard D. Zanuck Starring Robert Duvall Téa Leoni Elijah Wood Vanessa Redgrave Maximilian Schell Morgan Freeman Cinematography Dietrich Lohmann Edited by Paul Cichocki David Rosenbloom Music by James Horner Production companies Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Pictures Amblin Entertainment The Manhattan Project Zanuck/Brown Productions Distributed by Paramount Pictures (United States and Canada) DreamWorks Pictures (through United International Pictures, international) Release date October 30, 1998 Running time 121 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $80 million[1] Box office $349.5 million[2]
