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.

From acting on the big screen and television to producing and directing movies to winning Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood seems to have done it all. He has come to be known as one of the most respected actors and directors the world of cinema has seen.

Biography

Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930 in San Francisco. He tried his hand at many things and even worked as a logger and a gas-station attendant before going to Hollywood to try his luck. His was a quintessential show biz struggle which ended when he began acting in a western serial called ‘Rawhide’. He did not make big bucks but his character as Rowdy Yates became well known.

His first big hit came with A Fistful of Dollars, another western where he played a man many years older than his actual age. His face became the face of the Western hero in cinema and he acted in a host of western movies - For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, etc. Later, Clint Eastwood launched his own production house - Malpaso Productions - that produced and directed some riveting movies that have become the genre of their time. Hang ‘Em High, High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Unforgiven are some of his more scintillating works.

His movie, Dirty Harry, in which he first played cop, went on to become the top grosser of its times and spawned a host of similar movies, many with Clint playing the lead. The Gauntlet and Tightrope are the other two cop movies that his audiences and fans can never get enough of.