Following his breakthrough role on the TV series Rawhide (1959–65), Clint
Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy
of spaghetti westerns in the 1960s. He also known for his portrayal of San
Francisco PD Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films during the 1970
and 1980s. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of
the Best Picture,for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar
Baby (2004). Since 1967 Eastwood has run his own production company,
Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as  
the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. 

1966 

  
  Sudden Impact,1983

 Gran Torino, 2008

Army Private James Arness (1943)

Ken Curtis (left) as Festus Hagen and James Arness as Marshal Dillon in Gunsmoke. 

Actor James King Arness is best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on
Gunsmoke (CBS-TV, 1955-1975). His brother was actor Peter Graves. Prior
to Gunsmoke, Arness appeared in two Science fiction films, The Thing from
Another World (1951), in which he portrayed the title character, and Them
(1954). Arness was a close friend of John Wayne and co-starred with him
in Big Jim McLain (1952), Hondo (1953), Island in the Sky (1953), and
The Sea Chase (1955).

 

James Arness as The Thing

James Arness as FBI agent Robert Graham in Them

In 1999 film icon John Wayne (born Marion Robert Morrison) was named 13th
among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time by the American Film Institute. A
Harris Poll, released January 2011, placed Wayne third among America’s favorite
film stars, the only deceased star on the list and the only one who has appeared
on the poll every year since it began in 1994. Wayne won a Best Actor Oscar for
the 1969 film True Grit. His last film was The Shootist (1976). John Wayne died
of cancer in 1979.

Wayne’s breakthrough role came with director John Ford’s classic
film in 1939.

The Searchers (1956) continues to be widely regarded as Wayne’s
finest and most complex performance.

The original “Nellybelle” (above) from The Roy Rogers Show on NBC-TV from 1951
to 1957. It  was first displayed at the Roy Rogers- Dale Evans Museum which moved
from California to Missouri in 2003, and closed in late 2009. The World War ll  Willys
(CJ-2A) Jeep was sold at auction in New York on July 14, 2010 for $116,500, to a
private museum. 

Pat Brady behind the wheel of “NELLYBELLE’’

Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Pat Brady