Clint Eastwood
Overview
- Occupation Actor
- Also Director, Producer, Composer
- Birthname Clinton Eastwood, Jr.
- Birthdate May 31, 1930
- Birthplace San Francisco, California
- Education Los Angeles City College (business)
- Character Lieutenant Morris Schaffer
Biography
Clinton Eastwood Jr was born in San Francisco 1930 and grew up in Depression-era California. His parents were itinerant workers. After he high school he worked as a lumberjack in Oregon, played honky-tonk piano. He also worked for the US Army as a swimming instructor. After these period of jobs hes started to study business at Los Angeles College.
He signed for Universal and had his first experience with the indignities suffered by actors in a ”Francis the Talking Mule” movie, Francis in the Navy. After starring in many B-movies he moved to New York and got the role as the trail boss Rowdy Yates in the sucessful TV series Rawhide. His TV experience and lots of training helped him develop the minimalist acting style for which he is famous. This was first seen in a trilogy of Spaghetti westerned directed by Sergio Leone in Spain: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The good, the bad and the ugly. These movies made Eastwood an international star. After the Spaghetti Westerns he played ”Dirty” Harry Callahan, the cop of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry was a policeman who found it easier to shoot suspects than to interrogate them.
Eastwood became a star for his roles in action movies, but he also starred in severeal popular comedies, like Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can. Clint Eastwood’s next star vehicle, In the Line of Fire, was a great success and passed the $100 million mark i just a few month. He directed his next subsequent feature, A Perfect World. The cast included, except him self, Kevin Costner and his seven year-old hostage/companion. His latest movies includes the romatic movie The Bridges of Madison County (where he starred against Merryl) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Selected films
- Francis in the Navy - 1955
- Lady Godiva - 1955
- Never Say Goodbye - 1956
- Fistful of Dollars, A - 1964
- For a Few Dollars More - 1966
- Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The - 1966
- Hang 'em High - 1968
- Where Eagles Dare - 1969
- Kelly's Heroes - 1970
- Dirty Harry - 1971
- Play Misty for Me - 1971
- Magnum Force - 1973
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - 1974
- Escape from Alcatraz - 1979
- Any Which Way You Can - 1980
- Sudden Impact - 1983
- City Heat - 1984
- Tightrope - 1984
- Pale Rider - 1985
- Heartbreak Ridge - 1986
- Pink Cadillac - 1989
- Rookie, The - 1990
- Unforgiven - 1992
- In the Line of Fire - 1993
- Perfect World, A - 1993
- Bridges of Madison County, The - 1995
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - 1997
- Absolute Power - 1997
Curiosa
- Clint has won two Academy Award®, out of three nominations.