CLINT EASTWOOD
Birth name
Clinton Eastwood Jr.
Date of birth (location)
31 May 1930,
St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA
Height
6' 4"
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Spouse
'Dina Ruiz' (31 March 1996 - present)
'Maggie Johnson' (19 December 1953 - 1978) (divorced)
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Trade mark
His characters have a new "trademark expression" in each movie. The same character (eg. Dirty Harry) will have a different one in each movie.
At the end of movies he directs, during the credits the camera will move around the location it was filmed in then freeze frame for the rest of the credits
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Trivia
Is a partial owner of the Pebbles Beach Golf Country Club in Monterey Peninsula, California.
Owns the inn Mission Ranch, Carmel, California, USA
(1998) Received an honorary Cesar award in Paris, France for his body of work.
(October 1997) Ranked #2 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
(12 December 1996) Daughter, with Dina Ruiz, Morgan, born.
(29 Feb 1996) American Film Institute Life Achievement Award
Clint Eastwood wore the same poncho, without ever having washed it, in all three of his "man with no name" western movies.
When Eastwood first gained popularity with his first three major films Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966), Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) and Per un pugno di dollari (1964) Jolly Films (who produced Per un pugno di dollari (1964) ) created a film called The Magnificent Stranger which was actually two episodes of "Rawhide" (1959) edited together. Eastwood sued and the film was withdrawn.
(1986) Elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.
Clint was apparently such an organised director that he finished his movie Absolute Power (1997) days ahead of schedule.
When Don Siegel fell ill during production of Dirty Harry (1971), Eastwood stepped in as director during the attempted-suicide/jumper sequence.
Got his first acting role in Rawhide while visiting a friend at the CBS lot when a studio exec spotted him because he "looked like a cowboy."
Father of Alison Eastwood
Father of Kyle Eastwood
Served in the United States Army.
Child by Frances Fisher: Francesca Ruth Eastwood
Child by Roxanne Tunis: Kimber Eastwood (1964)
Father of two children by Jacelyn Reeves: Kathryn b. February 2, 1988 Scott b. March 21, 1986
Partner with Sondra Locke from 1975 thru 1988 (co-habitated from 1977-1988)
Current wife (1999), Dina Ruiz, is a former local television news anchor/reporter in California.
It's somewhat ironic, given his penchant towards directing or starring in westerns, that his name, Clint Eastwood, is an anagram for 'old west action.'
His name is used as the title of the hit Gorillaz song and video "Clint Eastwood" (2001)
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Personal quotes
[1985]: "My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."
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Where are they now
(April 2001) Developing adaptations of "Blood Work" and "Mystic River" with writer Brian Helgeland.
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Salary
Paint Your Wagon (1969) $500,000
Where Eagles Dare (1969) $800,000
Per un pugno di dollari (1964) $15,000
Hang 'em High (1967) $400,000
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) $250,000
Per qualche dollaro in piu (1965) $50,000
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
How many would ever have thought that a tall, laconic, squinty star of spaghetti Westerns and cop thrillers would end up directing art movies? Not many, we'd guess. In truth, though, that's been just another phase, just a natural extension of a career that has consistently confounded expectations. Reportedly an easygoing but shiftless young man who'd already worked in a variety of dead-end menial jobs (such as gas-station attendant) before reaching Hollywood in 1955, Eastwood wangled a contract at Universal thanks to director Arthur Lubin, and played bit parts that year in Francis in the Navy, Tarantula and Revenge of the Creature
Universal subsequently dropped Eastwood, but in 1959 he signed to star in the TV series "Rawhide," which kept him busy for the next six years. During the 1964 hiatus, he flew to Italy to star in a Western quickie, and thought no more of it until he found out that A Fistful of Dollars was a titanic success. He went back the next summer and again donned his flat-brimmed sombrero and ragged poncho in a sequel, For a Few Dollars More and again for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (both 1966). That year, all three were finally released in the U.S., and "The Man With No Name" (as his character was billed) suddenly found himself atop the box-office charts. His icy, tightlipped, implacable character-a triggerhappy gunman with his own moral codestruck just the right chord with 1960s audiences, who were just discovering in Humphrey Bogart a Hollywood relic with similar existential appeal. (It hardly mattered that Eastwood's character parodied the traditional Western-movie hero.)
Finally a star in his own country, Eastwood thereafter wisely varied his roles-though singing in the ambitious Western musical Paint Your Wagon (1969) may have stretched things a bit too farand began a fruitful collaboration with director Don Siegel that resulted in such excellent and distinctive films as Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Beguiled and of course, Dirty Harry (both 1971), which spawned four sequels, virtually invented the loosecannon cop genre, and gave him the screen character for which he will always be remembered. (Ironically, he only took the role after Frank Sinatra dropped out at the last minute.)
In 1971, Eastwood made his directorial debut with the chiller Play Misty for Me and continued to wield the megaphone frequently thereafter. Eastwood also set up his own production company, Malpaso, and for the next 15 years churned out hit after hit, alternating action films with offbeat comedies; notable in this period were High Plains Drifter (1973), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Every Which Way But Loose (1978), Escape From Alcatraz (1979, directed by Siegel), Tightrope (1984), Pale Rider (1985, a return to Westerns and a thinly disguised reworking of Shane), and Heartbreak Ridge (1986).
As Eastwood neared 60, his star began to dim, but he continued to surprise. He directed Bird (1988), a critically acclaimed biography of jazz great Charlie Parker; starred in and directed White Hunter, Black Heart (1990, playing a film director modeled after John Huston); and assumed the same chores on The Rookie (1991, with Charlie Sheen). Extremely canny about alternating mass-audience movies with more personal, limited-appeal projects, Eastwood managed to combine both types of films with Unforgiven (1992), a revisionist Western that won rave reviews-as well as Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director-and did extremely well at the box office. Following this personal triumph, he agreed to act in someone else's movie for the first time in years and delivered one of the best performances of his career as an aging Secret Service man (who just happens to play jazz piano) in In the Line of Fire (1993). Definitely on a winning streak, he then teamed up with Kevin Costner to costar in and direct A Perfect World (also 1993). In 1995, Eastwood won the Academy's Irving Thalberg award, then directed and acted opposite Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County (1995). He has also served as mayor of his hometown of Carmel, California. It may be revealing that this superstar of shoot-'em-ups both urban and Western has said for years that his own favorite of his films is the cerebral and highly stylized The Beguiled
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Filmography as: Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Miscellaneous crew, Writer, Notable TV guest appearances
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Actor - filmography
(2000s) (1990s) (1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s)
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000) .... Himself
Space Cowboys (2000) .... Dr. Francis D. "Frank" Corvin
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999) (TV) .... Himself
Forever Hollywood (1999) .... Himself
True Crime (1999) .... Steve Everett
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998) (TV) .... Himself
Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, A (1998) (uncredited) .... John 'Thunderbolt' Doherty
Eastwood on Eastwood (1997) (TV) .... Himself
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997) (TV) .... Interviewee: Actor and director
Salute to Martin Scorsese, A (1997) (TV) .... Guest
... aka 25th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Martin Scorsese, The (1997) (TV) (USA: complete title)
Absolute Power (1997) .... Luther Whitney
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) .... Himself
Salute to Clint Eastwood, A (1996) (TV) .... Honoree
... aka 24th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Clint Eastwood, The (1996) (TV) (USA: complete title)
Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, A (1995) (TV) .... Himself
Bridges of Madison County, The (1995) .... Robert Kincaid
Casper (1995) (uncredited) .... Himself
Cent et une nuits, Les (1995) (archive footage) .... Extra
... aka Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, Les (1995)
... aka Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema, A (1995)
... aka Hundred and One Nights, A (1995)
Century of Cinema, A (1994) .... Himself
Don't Pave Main Street: Carmel's Heritage (1994) (voice) .... Narrator
Perfect World, A (1993) .... Red Garnett
In the Line of Fire (1993) .... Frank Horrigan
Oscar's Greatest Moments: 1971 to 1991 (1992) (V) .... Himself
Unforgiven (1992) .... William Munny
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1991) .... Host
Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991) (TV) .... Himself (Host/Narrator)
Rookie, The (1990) .... Nick Pulovski
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) .... John Wilson
Pink Cadillac (1989) .... Tommy Nowak
Dead Pool, The (1988) .... Harry Callahan
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987) (TV) .... Himself
Heartbreak Ridge (1986) .... Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway
Pale Rider (1985) .... The Preacher
City Heat (1984) .... Lieutenant Speer
Terror in the Aisles (1984) (archive footage)
... aka Time for Terror (1984) (Europe: English title: video title)
Tightrope (1984) .... Wes Block
Firefox (1983) (VG) (voice) .... Mitchell Gant
Sudden Impact (1983) .... Harry Callahan
... aka Retour de l'inspecteur Harry, Le (1983)
Honkytonk Man (1982) .... Red Stovall
Firefox (1982) .... Major Mitchell Gant/Leon Sprague/Michael Lewis
Any Which Way You Can (1980) .... Philo Beddoe
Bronco Billy (1980) .... Bronco Billy McCoy
Escape from Alcatraz (1979) .... Frank Lee Morris
Every Which Way But Loose (1978) .... Philo Beddoe
Gauntlet, The (1977) .... Ben Shockley
Man with No Name, The (1977) (TV) .... Himself
Enforcer, The (1976) .... Harry Callahan
Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) .... Josey Wales
Eiger Sanction, The (1975) .... Dr. Jonathan Hemlock
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) .... John 'Thunderbolt' Doherty
Magnum Force (1973) .... Harry Callahan
High Plains Drifter (1972) .... The Stranger
Joe Kidd (1972) .... Joe Kidd
... aka Joe Kidd (1972) (USA)
Dirty Harry (1971) .... Harry Callahan
Play Misty for Me (1971) .... Dave Garver
Beguiled, The (1971) .... Corporal John McBurney
Kelly's Heroes (1970) .... Pvt. Kelly
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1969) .... Hogan
Paint Your Wagon (1969) .... Pardner (Sylvester Newel)
Where Eagles Dare (1969) .... Lieutenant Morris Pimpennel Schaffer
On Location: 'Where Eagles Dare' (1968) (uncredited) .... Himself
Coogan's Bluff (1968) .... Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan
Hang 'em High (1967) .... Marshal Jedediah Cooper
Streghe, Le (1966) .... Mario, The Husband
... aka Sorcières, Les (1966) (France)
... aka Witches, The (1969) (USA)
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) .... The Man With No Name (Blondie)
... aka Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1968) (USA)
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) .... The Man with No Name (Monco)
... aka For a Few Dollars More (1967) (UK) (USA)
... aka Für ein paar Dollar mehr (1966) (West Germany)
... aka Muerte tenía un precio, La (1966) (Spain)
... aka Por unos cuantos dólares más (1966) (Spain)
... aka Por unos pocos dólares más (1966) (Spain)
Per un pugno di dollari (1964) .... The Man With No Name (Joe)
... aka Fistful of Dollars, A (1967) (USA)
... aka Für eine Handvoll Dollar (1965) (West Germany)
... aka Por un puñado de dólares (1964) (Spain)
Disneyland '59 (1959) (TV) .... Himself
... aka Kodak Presents Disneyland '59 (1959) (TV)
"Rawhide" (1959) TV Series .... Rowdy Yates
Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958) .... Keith Williams
Lafayette Escadrille (1958) .... George Moseley
... aka C'est la Guerre (1958) (USA)
... aka Hell Bent for Glory (1958) (UK)
... aka With You in My Arms (1958) (USA)
Escapade in Japan (1957) .... Dumbo Pilot
First Traveling Saleslady, The (1956) .... Lieutenant Jack Rice
Star in the Dust (1956) (uncredited) .... Tom, ranch hand
... aka Law Man (1956) (USA)
Away All Boats (1956) (uncredited) .... Marine (Medic)
Never Say Goodbye (1956) (uncredited) .... Will
Lady Godiva (1955) (uncredited) .... First Saxon
... aka Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) (UK)
Tarantula (1955) (uncredited) .... Jet Squadron Leader
Francis in the Navy (1955) .... Jonesey
Revenge of the Creature (1955) (uncredited) .... Lab Technician
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Filmography as: Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Miscellaneous crew, Writer, Notable TV guest appearances
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Director - filmography
(2000s) (1990s) (1980s) (1970s)
Space Cowboys (2000)
True Crime (1999)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Absolute Power (1997)
Bridges of Madison County, The (1995)
Perfect World, A (1993)
Unforgiven (1992)
Rookie, The (1990)
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
Bird (1988)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
"Amazing Stories" (1985) TV Series (episode "Vanessa in the Garden (1985)")
Pale Rider (1985)
Sudden Impact (1983)
... aka Retour de l'inspecteur Harry, Le (1983)
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Firefox (1982)
Bronco Billy (1980)
Gauntlet, The (1977)
Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)
Eiger Sanction, The (1975)
Breezy (1973)
High Plains Drifter (1972)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
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Filmography as: Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Miscellaneous crew, Writer, Notable TV guest appearances
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Producer - filmography
(2000s) (1990s) (1980s)
Space Cowboys (2000) (producer)
True Crime (1999) (producer)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) (producer)
Absolute Power (1997) (producer)
Stars Fell on Henrietta, The (1995) (producer)
Bridges of Madison County, The (1995) (producer)
Perfect World, A (1993) (producer)
Unforgiven (1992) (producer)
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) (producer)
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1989) (executive producer)
Bird (1988) (producer)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986) (producer)
Pale Rider (1985) (producer)
Tightrope (1984) (producer)
Sudden Impact (1983) (producer)
... aka Retour de l'inspecteur Harry, Le (1983)
Honkytonk Man (1982) (producer)
Firefox (1982) (producer)
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Filmography as: Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Miscellaneous crew, Writer, Notable TV guest appearances
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Composer - filmography
(2000s) (1990s) (1980s)
Space Cowboys (2000)
Absolute Power (1997)
Bridges of Madison County, The (1995)
Unforgiven (1992) (Claudia's theme)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986) (songs)
City Heat (1984) (songs)
Bronco Billy (1980) (songs)
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Filmography as: Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Miscellaneous crew, Writer, Notable TV guest appearances
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Miscellaneous crew - filmography
(1990s) (1960s)
Traveller (1997) (special thanks)
Back to the Future Part III (1990) (thanks)
Per un pugno di dollari (1964) (western advisor: Italian prints only)
... aka Fistful of Dollars, A (1967) (USA)
... aka Für eine Handvoll Dollar (1965) (West Germany)
... aka Por un puñado de dólares (1964) (Spain)
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Filmography as: Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Miscellaneous crew, Writer, Notable TV guest appearances
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Writer - filmography
Per un pugno di dollari (1964) (uncredited)
... aka Fistful of Dollars, A (1967) (USA)
... aka Für eine Handvoll Dollar (1965) (West Germany)
... aka Por un puñado de dólares (1964) (Spain)
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Filmography as: Actor, Director, Producer, Composer, Miscellaneous crew, Writer, Notable TV guest appearances
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Notable TV guest appearances
"Directors, The" (1999) playing "Himself"
"Mister Ed" (1961) playing "Himself" in episode: "Clint Eastwood Meets Mister Ed" (episode # 2.25) 4/22/1962
"Maverick" (1957) playing "Red Hardigan" in episode: "Duel at Sundown" (episode # 2.19) 2/1/1959
"Highway Patrol" (1955) 1958
"West Point" (1956) in episode: "White Fury" (episode # 1.22) 3/1/1957
"Death Valley Days" (1952) in episode: "Last Letter, The" (episode # 5.7) 12/8/1956
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