X “bows” today to iconic Hollywood star Clint Eastwood, who hopefully turns 94 (born May 31, 1930) but continues to direct with the same will and love for cinema as when he first started before about 50 years.

Starting with the spaghetti westerns of the 60s (“For a Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”) Eastwood played dozens of iconic roles and is already a legend of cinema.

Inspector Callahan (Dirty Harry, 1971)

The iconic yet cult role of the 70s-80s – Eastwood as the tough avenger/Inspector Harry Callahan in his first big screen appearance, which established him and his “tough” profile.

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

One of Clint Eastwood’s most legendary films – he plays Frank Morris, one of the prisoners trying to implement the “perfect plan” to escape from the world’s most secure prison.

Eastwood with the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for Unforgiven (1992), his last western

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

The sudden, brief and touching relationship between Robert and Francesca (the one and only Meryl Streep in the role of a single housewife), with Eastwood directing and starring.

Robert is an itinerant photographer who wants to photograph Iowa’s historic bridges. Then, he will meet local resident Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep) with whom he will have a brief passionate relationship.

The scene with the rain, with Streep in her husband’s van, watching Robert leave her town (and life), moved everyone.

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

The Oscar-winning “sports” starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. as an underrated boxing trainer who seeks redemption by helping an amateur boxer waitress (Hilary Swank) turn pro, with tragic results.

The film was shot in just 37 days, received rave reviews and won 4 Oscars, including Best Picture.

Gran Torino (2008)

Eastwood’s social drama masterpiece starring him as the widowed, aloof, racist and anti-social Korean veteran Walt Kowalski who struggles to adjust to the changes happening in his neighborhood and in his own life.

Clint Eastwood

One night, someone tries to steal his beloved Gran Torino, a ’72 car, which he meticulously maintains so that it remains as it was the first day he bought it – a point of stability in his lonely life. Then he will meet his shy teenage neighbor, Thao, from the Hmong gang, and Walt will turn not only their plans upside down, but also the whole life of the neighborhood, which he had avoided until then.