Clint Eastwood

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 195965 Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leones 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 toughtalking nononsense 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 andor critical acclaim Eastwoods 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 highestgrossing 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 Frances highest honors in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was awarded the Légion dhonneur 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 CarmelbytheSea 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 Description above adapted from the Wikipedia article Clint Eastwood licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia