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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31,
1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician.
Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the
TV series Rawhide (1959–1965). He rose to fame for playing the
Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns
(A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly) during 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
tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring
cultural icon of masculinity.[1][2]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 and critical
acclaim. Eastwood's only comedies have been Every Which Way but Loose
(1978), its sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980), and Bronco Billy (1980);
despite being widely panned by critics, the "Any Which Way"
films are the two highest-grossing films of his career after adjusting
for inflation.In addition to directing most of his own star vehicles,
Eastwood 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). 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
France's highest honors: in 1994, he received the Ordre des Arts et
des Lettres medal and in 2007, was awarded the Légion d'honneur
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 all except four of his American
films. He also served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea,
California, from 1986 to 1988, with an eye for small business interests
on the one hand and conservation on the other. Eastwood has seven children
by five different women and he has married twice. -Wikipedia
