Beard Liberation Front
31st May
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has paid tribute to Clint Eastwood on his 90th birthday.
While he has not worn a beard in recent decades he popularised one of the most iconic 1960s beard styles.
Eastwood played The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy known as the Spaghetti Westerns.
He appeared sometimes with a beard, sometimes with stubble, wearing a broad brimmed hat and a poncho and invariably chewing on a cheroot.
He created an entire hirsute persona as he explained: ‘I felt the less he said, the stronger he became and the more he grew in the imagination of the audience’
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Clint Eastwood is associated with one of the most iconic post-1945 facial hair images. He may be clean shaven nowadays at 90 years old, but the image will endure
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