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Clint Eastwood just doesn't stop. His latest film as director, Juror #2, arrives in cinemas this week and has been widely reported to be his sista movie. But even at 94 years of age and with a year Hollywood career beneath his belt, only a fool would bet against the great gunslinger having another bullet or two in his filmmaking chamber.
Like all of the most iconic Hollywood stars, Eastwood has shown a remarkable ability to reinvent himself in order to stay at the top of the industry. He carved out his name as a man without a name in some of the best Westerns ever before becoming a fixture of awards season as a pleasingly old-fashioned director with a reputation for making movies with the same ruthless efficiency as a quick-draw cowboy.
So, with Eastwood possibly bowing out of Hollywood for good and riding off into the sunset, it's worth having a look back at his eclectic career and enviable legacy on the big screen.
Man With No Name
Eastwood made his big screen debu
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Clint Eastwood
American actor and director (born )
This article is about the American actor. For other uses, see Clint Eastwood (disambiguation).
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, ) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mids and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the s and s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.[4][5] Elected in , Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy Every Which Way but Loose () and its action comedy sequel Any Which Way You Can ().[6] Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns Hang 'Em High (), The Outlaw Josey Wales
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Clint Eastwood
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Who Is Clint Eastwood?
Clint Eastwood got his big break with a starring role on the television program Rawhide. He then became immensely popular by portraying tough characters in a string of Sergio Leone movie Westerns and the Dirty Harry franchise. Eastwood has since earned widespread praise for directing such Academy Award-winning films as Unforgiven, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby.
Early Life and Career
Eastwood was born Clinton Eastwood Jr. on May 31, , to Clinton Sr. and Ruth Eastwood, in San Francisco, California. He has one younger sister, Jeanne. After traveling and looking for work throughout California during the Depression, the family settled in the Bay Area city of Piedmont. Eastwood attended Piedmont High School and then Oakland Technical High School, graduating in
Eastwood worked odd jobs during and after high school, with stints as a hay baler, logger, truck driver and steel-furnace stoker. In , he was drafted into the U.S.