The movie great has announced last year's Gran Torino was his final film as a leading man - and he wants to spend the rest of his days behind the camera.
The star of many classics; Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Escape from Alcatraz, The Enforcer, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistfull of Dollars, In the Line of Fire, True Crime, Space Cowboys, Million Dollar Baby revealed, "I'm done... You never know where a good story comes from but I'm a senior here (and) you get to a certain stage and you think, 'Why not just stand behind the camera?'
"Nobody's fooling with you, nobody's wanting to put make-up, do you collar, all that kind of stuff."
