Clint Eastwood
Acting
Biography
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and former politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series "Rawhide" (1959–65), Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns ("A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More," and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly") in the 1960s, and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ("Dirty Harry," "Magnum Force," "The Enforcer," "Sudden Impact," and "The Dead Pool") during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with several others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). These films in particular, as well as others including "Play Misty for Me" (1971), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "Pale Rider" (1985), "In the Line of Fire" (1993), "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), and "Gran Torino" (2008), have all received commercial success and/or critical acclaim. Eastwood's only comedies have been "Every Which Way but Loose" (1978) and its sequel "Any Which Way You Can" (1980); despite being widely panned by critics they are the two highest-grossing films of his career after adjusting for inflation. Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed films in which he did not appear such as "Mystic River" (2003) and "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and "Changeling" (2008), which received Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received considerable critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were panned in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967 Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood has seven children by five women, although he has only married twice. An audiophile, Eastwood is also associated with jazz and has composed and performed pieces in several films along with his eldest son, Kyle Eastwood.
Born: May 31, 1930
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Mike Milo
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Earl Stone
as Self - Actor (1966)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
as (voice)
as Self
as Church Goer (Uncredited)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Gus Lobel
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Host
as Self
as Walt Kowalski
as Walt Kowalski
as Walt Kowalski
as Walt Kowalski
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - interviewee
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Frankie Dunn
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Actor & Director
as Self
as Terry McCaleb
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor
as Self
as Frank Corvin
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Steve Everett
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Luther Whitney
as Self
as Robert Kincaid
as Clint Eastwood (uncredited)
as Self - in Cannes
as Self
as Chief Red Garnett
as Frank Horrigan
as William Munny
as Nick Pulovski
as Self
as John Wilson
as Tommy Nowak
as Insp. Harry Callahan
as Gunnery Sgt. Tom 'Gunny' Highway
as Self
as Preacher
as Lieutenant Speer
as Wes Block
as Insp. Harry Callahan
as Red Stovall
as Mitchell Gant
as Self
as Self
as Philo Beddoe
as Bronco Billy
as Frank Morris
as Self
as Philo Beddoe
as Ben Shockley
as Self
as Insp. Harry Callahan
as Josey Wales
as Self
as Jonathan Hemlock
as Self
as Thunderbolt
as Insp. Harry Callahan
as Man at Marina (uncredited)
as The Stranger
as Joe Kidd
as Harry
as Dave
as Self (2006)
as Self
as John McBurney
as Sergeant First Class Kelly
as Hogan
as "Pardner"
as Self
as Lt. Morris Schaffer
as Coogan
as Marshal Jed Cooper
as Self (archive footage)
as Carlo / Charlie (segment "Una sera come le altre")
as Blondie
as Rowdy Yates
as Manco
as Joe
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Rowdy Yates
as Keith Williams
as George Moseley
as Dumbo Pilot
as Red Hardigan
as Corpsman (uncredited)
as Jack Rice
as Tom - Ranch Hand (uncredited)
as Will
as Jet Squadron Leader (uncredited)
as First Saxon
as Joe Keeley
as Newsman (uncredited)
as Jonesey
as Self- Orderly
as Jennings (uncredited)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Accepting Award for Sean Penn
as Self - Nominee