What is Harry Callahan (character)?
[[Inspector#Municipal police|Inspector]] '''Harold Francis Callahan''' (born August 3, 1928), nicknamed '''Dirty Harry''', is a fictional character and hero of the [[Dirty Harry (movie series)|''Dirty Harry'']] movie series. The character has appeared in ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' (1971), ''[[Magnum Force]]'' (1973), ''[[The Enforcer (1976 movie)|The Enforcer]]'' (1976), ''[[Sudden Impact]]'' (1983), and ''[[The Dead Pool]]'' (1988). Callahan is played by [[Clint Eastwood]] in each movie. Callahan became known as a new kind of cop: an [[antihero]] who does not stop to cross professional boundaries in pursuit of his own vision of justice. All of the ''Dirty Harry'' movies show Callahan killing criminals, mostly in gunfights. Harry Callahan was voted number 23 by ''[[Empire Magazine|Empire]]'' Magazine on their list of ''The 100 Greatest Movie Characters''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empireonline.com/100-greatest-movie-characters/default.asp?c=23 |title=''Empire's'' The 100 Greatest Movie Characters |work=Empire Magazine |access-date=May 21, 2010}}</ref> Callahan was voted the 17th greatest movie hero on ''[[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains|100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/handv100.pdf?docID=246 |title=AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains |publisher=afi.com |access-date=May 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807135547/http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/handv100.pdf?docID=246 |archive-date=August 7, 2011 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{movie-stub}} [[Category:Fictional American people]] [[Category:Fictional characters introduced in 1971]] [[Category:Movie characters]]