Film Career
Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930 in San Francisco to a factory worker and a steelworker.
He is of Scottish, English, Dutch and Irish descent. He was raised in a middle class home and moved often throughout California as his dad was somewhat of a migrant worker. He graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1949 and began work as a gas station attendant and firefighter. He was drafted in 1950 and suffered through a water landing crash in the Pacific Ocean and was not sent to the Korean War.
Film Career
Clint Eastwood began his career as an actor in the early 1950s and initially starred in several B-films like “Revenge of the Creature” and “Tarantula”. In 1958, he got his first big role in a feature film called “Ambush at Cimarron Pass”. He later began working on a television series called “Rawhide”.
This is when he began to be famous. In the 1960s, he found numerous lead roles, mostly in Western movies. These rocketed him to international stardom. He maintained roles in “tough guy” films during the 1960s and worked alongside Richard Burton. Many of his roles set the stage for the Dirty Harry series of movies.
The 1970s and beyond
Clint Eastwood continued to do Westerns throughout the 1970s but branched out to play in the thriller “Play Misty for Me” and finally found work playing a tough police detective in “Dirty Harry”. This is regarded as Eastwood’s most memorable character and it led to four sequels in the 1970s and 80s. He began directing in the 1970s and directed “High Plains Drifter” and “The Outlaw Josey Wales”.
In 1978, he starred in “Every Which Way but Loose”, an offbeat comedy set in the American West. The sequel, “Any Which Way You Can” was also popular.
During the 1980s, he continued to work in tough guy films, including the Western film “Pale Rider”. In the 1990s, he directed and starred in the room “Unforgiven”—a film that was nominated for nine Oscars, winning four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
In the 2000s, Clint Eastwood has continued to work in directing. He is directing a film called “The Changeling” and is working on numerous other projects, primarily as a director. He’s been married twice and has seven children by five different women. He is currently married to Dina Ruiz and has an ten-year old child with his wife.
Clint Eastwood is my favorite actor I like the roles he’s played in the past. If I could choose to be anyone it would be Clint.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:28 am
as a long time clint fan i was very unhappy with his last two war movies.
how can you make a flim to honor men sent to war to fight for this country of ours and show not ONE african american????????
had you wanted to show truth and had respectfully research with open mind, to make this a LEGIT movie , you would HAVE HAD AFRICAN AMERCIANS included in the war movie.
as usual you fell into old hollywood one sided racist game- MAKING us shadow people.the war would have not been won without thier lives put on the line also.
i hope you make another flim and this time show all americans!!!!!
May 29th, 2008 at 9:58 am