Dirty Harry (film series) as a car chase, barroom brawl, defusing bombs and "Feel Lucky" mode. Dirty Harry (film series) Dirty Harry is an American film series featuring San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan who is notorious for being extremely violent and ruthless in his methods, and a danger for any partner assigned to him. Actor Clint Eastwood portrayed Callahan in all five of the series' films. "Dirty Harry" (1971) was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan. Harry tracks serial killer Scorpio (loosely based on the Zodiac killer). Eastwood's iconic portrayal of the blunt-speaking, unorthodox
Dirty Harry (character) that "I'll take all the edge I can get". When Al Quan becomes Callahan's partner in "The Dead Pool", the inspector respects Quan's experience but does not want to work with anyone because, he says, "most of my partners end up in the hospital or dead"; he warns Quan to "get a bulletproof vest". It is a recurring theme in the "Dirty Harry" films that Callahan has a high turnover of partners; most are killed or wounded while working with him. In "Dirty Harry", he mentions two unseen partners named Fanducci and Dietrich; Dietrich is in the hospital having been