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Actor Geoffrey Lewis dies at 79

LOS ANGELES — Geoffrey Lewis, a prolific television actor and frequent co-star of Clint Eastwood, died Tuesday at 79.

The veteran character actor’s credits alongside Eastwood include “High Plains Drifter,” “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,” “Every Which Way But Loose,” and its sequel, and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” among others.

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