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Who does Clint Eastwood play in Coogan’s Bluff?

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Don Siegel, wearing a hat and sunglasses, stands beside Clint Eastwood, also in sunglasses and a suit, on the set of the film Dirty Harry with a large studio light overhead. — Don Siegel Don Siegel (left) and Clint Eastwood during the filming of *Dirty Harry* (1971).

In the 1968 film Coogan’s Bluff, directed by Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood plays the lead character, Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan.1

Coogan is a tough lawman from Arizona who travels to New York City to extradite an escaped prisoner. The role is notable for foreshadowing the no-nonsense, tough-cop persona that Eastwood would later embody in the Dirty Harry films, which also featured a collaboration between Eastwood and Siegel.12