Captain Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner is a fictional character who appears in the 1998 film Deep Impact. This character is portrayed by Robert Duvall.
Throughout Deep Impact[]
He is a veteran astronaut selected to lead the mission to divert a massive comet named Wolf-Biederman from colliding with Earth and potentially causing an extinction-level event. Captain Tanner is part of the crew of the Orion spacecraft Messiah, tasked with planting nuclear bombs on the comet to alter its trajectory.
Appearances[]
- Deep Impact (1998)