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Sep 15, 2024 · Clint Eastwood (born May 31, 1930, San Francisco, California, U.S.) is an American motion-picture actor who emerged as one of the most popular Hollywood stars in the 1960s and went on to become a prolific and respected director-producer. (Read Marin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
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Apr 2, 2014 · Clint Eastwood made his name as a popular TV and film actor, and went on to become the Academy Award-winning director of such features as 'Unforgiven' and 'Million Dollar Baby.'
Sep 17, 2021 · Clint Eastwood Built His 67-Year Career on Tradition While Changing the Industry Forever
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In September 1955, Eastwood worked for three weeks on Arthur Lubin's Lady Godiva of Coventry in which he donned a medieval costume, and then in February 1955, won a role playing "Jonesy", a sailor in Francis in the Navy and his salary was raised to $300 a week for the four weeks of shooting. [49]
Tasting success with the Western TV series Rawhide, he achieved international fame with Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) during the 1960s and in the Dirty Harry film series in the 1970s and 1980s.
Now 88 years old, the silver screen legend who brought a new form of machismo to Hollywood has starred in some of the most quoted films of all time, and directed some of Hollywood’s best movies. Here are the ways Clint Eastwood became the icon he is today.
At age 91, Eastwood made history as the oldest actor to star above the title in a movie with the release of Cry Macho (2021). Away from the limelight, Eastwood has led an aberrant existence and is described by biographer Patrick McGilligan as a cunning manipulator of the media. His convoluted slew of partners and children are now somewhat ...
