The Bearded Trio

Turning 85 today and still showing no signs of stopping (fortunately for moviefans all over the world) is Hollywood Legend Clint Eastwood . With a career that spans over 60 years, starting of as a bit player in various films, he first tasted success with the television series Rawhide , where he portrayed the character of Rowdy Yates for 216 episodes, between 1959 and 1965. But he scored really big, with his (European)  Man with No Name-Trilogy , directed by the legendary Sergio Leone: a Fistfull of Dollars , For a Few Dollars More and The good, The Bad and the Ugly in 1964, 1965 and 1966. After a few more so-called spaghetti-westerns, he was finally discovered in America as well. 1971 became his turning year, it was the year he worked on two films directed by his friend Don Siegel : The   Beguiled  (in my opinion a highly under-appreciated masterpiece)  and the box-office smash Dirty Harry (a character he would portray four more times in ...