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- Albert Popwell, Broadway dancer turned actor who appeared in all four "Dirty Harry" films playing various thugs and whose face was captured on camera when Clint Eastwood challenged, "Go ahead, make my day," died April 9 during open heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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In Dirty Harry as a bank robber, Magnum Force as a pimp named J.J. Wilson, The Enforcer as Big Ed Mustapha and Sudden Impact as a police detective named Horace King. He did not appear in The Dead Pool due to a scheduling conflict. Popwell died on April 9, 1999 at age 72, from open heart surgery complications.
Popwell was the wounded bank robber at the receiving end of Eastwood's iconic "Do I feel lucky?" monologue from Dirty Harry (1971). He was a murderous pimp in Magnum Force (1973), appeared as militant Big Ed Mustapha in The Enforcer (1976) and as Harry's detective colleague Horace King in Sudden Impact (1983).
Oct 15, 2021 · Popwell was somewhat of a good luck charm to Eastwood, who got him roles in four out of the five "Dirty Harry" films, although he wasn't the original actor cast as Big Ed Mustapha in 1976's "The...
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- Dirty Harry - Chico Gonzalez
- Magnum Force - Early Smith
- The Enforcer - Frank Digiorgio
- The Enforcer - Kate Moore
- Sudden Impact - Horace King
- The Dead Pool - Al Quan
Played by Reni Santoni, Chico is a young cop partnered with Harry on the Scorpio case. He serves as something of an audience surrogate during Dirty Harry's first half, as he accompanies Callaghan on the "dirty" jobs he's often assigned. Despite Harry's skepticism, Chico proves himself both capable and useful and even saves his partner's life during...
Magnum Forcesees Harry take on a ring of vigilante cops within the force, who are murdering criminals of all varieties that they deem guilty. The 1973 sequel sees Harry paired with Felton Perry's "Early," who is often left shocked by Harry's glib attitude to the various horrors they come across. They grow a bond though, but Early is later killed by...
Played by Robert Mitchum's brother John, Frank DiGiorgio was one of the few recurring characters through the first three Dirty Harry films. He was a comic relief character who was mentioned as a past partner to Harry and later helps him find Scorpio (who was based on the Zodiac Killer) at Kezar Stadium. DiGiorgio was killed in the third entry The E...
The big hook of The Enforcer was that old-school Harry would be paired with a female detective, played by future Cagney & Laceystar Tyne Daly. While the sequel takes some annoying jabs at the mere idea of a woman becoming a police officer, Kate is easily the most compelling and fleshed-out of Harry's partners. Despite their different ways of thinki...
One of the stranger recurring gags of the Eastwood Dirty Harry franchise was casting actor Albert Popwell in different roles in each film. He played the bank robber on the receiving end of the "Do I feel lucky?" speech in Dirty Harry and appeared in every sequel bar The Dead Pool. In Sudden Impact, he played Horace, an old cop friend of Harry who h...
The finalDirty Harry thriller introduced yet another partner in Evan C. Kim's Al. A running gag is that Al is aware of the grim fates that have befallen most of Callahan's partners, with Harry all but begging his superiors not to be assigned another partner. He advises Al to wear a bulletproof vest, and like in the previous Dirty Harry- which defin...
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Nov 27, 2019 · All Albert Popwell Appearances in the Dirty Harry franchise (4K) Vee XXL. 105K subscribers. 149. 8.1K views 4 years ago. From a robber to a pimp, here are all of his appearances. All rights...
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Sudden Impact is a 1983 American neo-noir action thriller film, the fourth in the Dirty Harry series, directed, produced by and starring Clint Eastwood (making it the only Dirty Harry film to be directed by Eastwood himself) and co-starring Sondra Locke.
Jun 21, 2012 · Sadly, Popwell was unable to appear in the final Dirty Harry film, 1990's The Dead Pool, due to prior commitments. It would have been fitting if this veteran actor had appeared in all five films. As it stands, his four appearances demonstrate that, in Dirty Harry movies, you only die twice.
