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There are actors who perform. And then there are actors who inhabit. Robert Duvall belonged to the second order. He possessed a smile that felt unmanufactured, almost boyish, as though it arrived before calculation. It was not a star’s grin. It was a human one. Warm. Direct. Disarming. Among the pantheon of American actors, his smile carried an innocence that never felt naive and a handsomeness that never felt vain. It was the smile of a man who understood the weight of the w