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British actor HUGH LAURIE based his grumpy TV medic character DR GREGORY HOUSE on CLINT EASTWOOD’s tough guy cop DIRTY HARRY.
The BLACKADDER star became obsessed with Eastwood when a professor at top British school Eton, where he was once a student, introduced scholars to the magic of Dirty Harry.
And Laurie has always tried to work Eastwood’s iconic cop into parts he has played.
He says, “I was taught English at Eton by a teacher who also ran a film-study group… One of the most peculiar and adorable characteristics about him was that he revered Clint Eastwood more than any other single figure in our culture.
“He introduced his flock of neophyte students to the world of Dirty Harry and it stuck. He really did open my eyes to a fascinating mythic character, and it’s stayed with me ever since.
“I do, in my own feeble way, see an element of Dirty Harry in House… In some way, everyone is trying to mimic, consciously or not, that great 70s archetype Dirty Harry - the lone, righteous man.”

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