
Clint Eastwood
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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.
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Known For

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Merv Griffin Show

The Oscars

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Golden Globe Awards

The Daily Show

Today

Parkinson

The Early Show

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Danny Kaye Show

West Point

100 Years of Warner Bros.

My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman

The Movie Orgy

The Longest Day

American Sniper

Casper

The Princess

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Piano Blues

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Where Eagles Dare

Dirty Harry: The Original

The Man with No Name

Paint Your Wagon

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

The Magnificent Stranger

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

The Bridges of Madison County

The Dead Pool

Dirty Harry

Gran Torino

Escape from Alcatraz

Heartbreak Ridge

Unforgiven

Trouble with the Curve

The Rookie

True Crime

A Fistful of Dollars

Rawhide

In the Line of Fire

Every Which Way but Loose

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Kelly's Heroes

The Mule

Clint Eastwood: Director

For a Few Dollars More

Firefox

Million Dollar Baby
Production Credits

J. Edgar

The Bridges of Madison County

Amazing Stories

Mystic River

The Rookie

Piano Blues

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Mule

American Sniper

Trouble with the Curve

Heartbreak Ridge

Flags of Our Fathers

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Letters from Iwo Jima

Juror #2

The 15:17 to Paris

Changeling

Sully

Unforgiven

Million Dollar Baby

Dirty Harry

Firefox

Richard Jewell

True Crime

Jersey Boys

Gran Torino
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