Eastwood turns 90

Actor/director Clint Eastwood turns 90 today and his filmography covers nearly seven decades of films and TV. I grew up watching reruns of Rawhide and later his spaghetti westerns like A Fistful of Dollars and their followups. He was the avenger cop in Dirty Harry over five films with his signature line. "Do you feel lucky?" No one can forget his iconic moment in Where Eagles Dare as he straps on two machine guns. When he began to direct, one of his earliest films, The Outlaw Josey Wales, proclaimed him a talent behind the camera through Oscar winning films Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.  He never completely left acting, scoring in some gems along the way like In the Line of Fire. He would try drama, comedy, (even a musical like Paint Your Wagon) and war films, but his westerns were memorable. From early work as an extra on Tarantula (below) through his stardom rivaling those of Sean Connery and John Wayne to industry darling with no signs of retiring (his mom lived to 97), it's quite a career. My first Eastwood film in a theater was The Gauntlet, and I was hooked.