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Dirty Harry

United States of America · Arts / Cinema. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1971Date range
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Chronological records

1971

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood1971

San Francisco · Arts / Cinema

Stars as Inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry, creating one of his best-known screen characters.

Harry Fink1971

Arts / Cinema

Clint Eastwood stars in Dirty Harry, written by Harry and Rita Fink, centrs around a hard-edged New York City (later changed to San Francisco) police inspector named Harry Callahan who is determined to stop a psychotic killer by any means, Dirty Harry has been described as being arguably Eastwoods most memorable character, and the film has been credited with inventing the "loose-cannon cop" genre

Names involved

Clinton "Clint" EastwoodHarry Fink

Provenance

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