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Dirty Harry <span class="date" >(1971)</span>

Director: Don SiegelCast: Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino and Andy Mitchum Dirty Harry catapulted Eastwood to iconoclastic stardom as the flinty San Francisco cop and ushered in…

Peter Viertel Biography

writerDied: Nov. 4, 2007 (Marbella, Spain) Best Known as: Hollywood screenwriter and novelist Author and screenwriter who produced proactive works of…

Jamie Bell

Screen actor Jamie Bell's debut in Billy Elliot made him a star at the age of 15. By press accounts, Bell was very much like the title character in that movie, a schoolboy who had to hide his love of…

Pat Hingle

Name at birth: Martin Patterson HinglePat Hingle broke into movies with a bit part as a bartender in the 1954 classic On The Waterfront (starring Marlon Brando). He then became a regular on Broadway…

Telly Savalas

Name at birth: Aristotle SavalasTelly Savalas is best remembered as TV's Kojak. The show ran from 1973-78; Kojak was a loose and tough-talking New York police detective known for his shiny bald head…

Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman became one of America's best-known film actors in 1971, when he starred as impudent New York cop Popeye Doyle in William Friedkin's The French Connection. Since then he has mixed…

James Garner

Name at birth: James BumgarnerHandsome and rascally, James Garner played amiable but crafty good guys in dozens of films and TV shows from the mid-1950s through the early 2000s. His greatest fame…

Michael Cimino

Filmmaker Michael Cimino's career was forever marked by the huge success of 1978's The Deer Hunter and the huge failure of 1980's Heaven's Gate. He studied art and architecture at Yale in the early…

John Malkovich

John Malkovich is an unconventional leading man of stage and screen, perhaps best known for lending his name and persona to the film Being John Malkovich (2000, starring Malkovich and John Cusack).…

Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland was a major counterculture star in the early 1970s, winning critical raves as snarky Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (1970) and as a small-town detective bonding with a New…