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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).
The French Riviera sparkled under a golden sun as Jack Callahan arrived in Nice hoping for a quiet getaway. Across the Côte d’Azur, Milo “Sugar” Romano, a sharp-witted former con artist, was plotting a daring heist: a legendary jewel called The Sapphire of Saint-Tropez, displayed at a glamorous Riviera gala. To pull it off, he enlisted Vince Russo and Leo “Lucky” Moretti, master gamblers and drivers. Henri Taboureau, a lovable, absent-minded French mechanic, restores a vintage yacht. Fate or pure chaos swept him into the unfolding schemes, his bungled repairs inadvertently thwarting and aiding the would-be thieves alike. In the midst of it all, Forrest King, a legendary Riviera thief in golden years, prepared to charm his way through the gala for a final heist, oblivious to the competition closing in from every direction. Rico Blaze, a flamboyant celebrity host, broadcast the gala live, his antics unintentionally complicating the thieves’ plans. Jack found himself falling for Clara Bellemont, a sophisticated heiress with secrets of her own, while Henri’s clumsy antics triggered a series of misunderstandings, flirtations, and accidental heroics. Near arrests, mistaken identities, and comical mishaps unfolded on the Riviera’s sun-drenched streets. Late at night in Monte Carlo, all schemes collided. In a dazzling scenes of clever escapes, speedboat chases, and last-minute improvisations, Jack and Clara finally slipped away aboard a restored vintage speedboat, the jewel safe.
