Candid black and white photos show veteran Hollywood hunk Clint Eastwood relaxing at home before he found fame more than 60 years ago
The veteran actor and director posed for the pictures at his home in Hollywood in 1956 - aged just 26
HE IS the veteran Hollywood actor and director best-known for playing gun-toting cowboys and out of control cops.
And a series of candid black and white pictures have shown Clint Eastwood as a young baby-faced star relaxing in his Hollywood home before he found fame.
In the images, Clint, who turned 87 yesterday, can be seen baring his chest and lifting weights in his back garden, as well as chatting on the phone.
Other fascinating snaps show him athletically diving into a swimming pool and emerging, as well as relaxing on the boot of his open-top car.
While in one shot, he can be seen pointing a gun - a pose he has struck in many of his movies.
The pictures were taken in 1956 by the photographer Michael Ochs, who spent time with Clint at his home.
At the time, Clint was a jobbing actor after having several small roles in minor films and TV shows.
And the pictures were shot with the intention of being sent out to film studios and the press, to raise his profile.
It would be two years after the pictures were taken that he would land the role of Rowdy Yates in the series Rawhide, which would catapult him to stardom.
And it was also decades before his most famous appearances in Where Eagles Dare, Dirty Harry and Million Dollar Baby.
Previously we reported how Clint said Dirty Harry wouldn't be made today because of political correctness.
While we also told you how his son Scott paid homage to his dad by dressing up in a classic western costume.