Clint Eastwood has a long relationship with Warner Bros. that began well before the '70 and is still going in 2011, but some of the star's most well-known films were made with the company during the '70s. Eastwood created one of his most famous characters in the studio's 1971 film "Dirty Harry" and followed up with sequels "Magnum Force" and "The Enforcer." Other famous Eastwood films from the period include "Every Which Way but Loose" and a return to the genre that made him famous with the western " The Outlaw Josey Wales."
Wayne didn't make as many films as Eastwood did for Warner Bros. in the 1970s, but he was still a driving force at the company. Wayne had been doing pictures with the studio for decades as well, having made his first picture for the company in 1929. In the 1970s, he would star in "Chisum," "The Train Robbers," "Cahill, United States Marshall" and "McQ" for the studio.
Robert Redford starred in only two films for the studio during the 1970s, but his star power was such that he still deserves mention, especially because one of those films is widely considered one of the best of the era. The earlier of the two films was "Jeremiah Johnson," in which Redford played a reclusive mountain man. The second was the iconic "All the President's Men," in which he played reporter Bob Woodward alongside Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein.
Although comic actors don't typically have the same star power as dramatic leading men, Warner Bros. still had several that the studio featured in multiple films. George Burns, for example, was seen in "Oh, God!" and "Going in Style." Gene Wilder was another favorite, headlining "The Frisco Kid" and starring in the classic Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles."