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If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

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Robert Duvall
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 5
Actor
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Television Actor
San Diego
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Robert Selden Duvall
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