Clint_Eastwood

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood Actors Guild Award and five People’s Choice Awards—including one for Favorite All-Time Motion Picture Star.[1] His performances as the iconic Man with No Name in the Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns, and as Inspector Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films, have made him an enduring icon of masculinity.[2] For his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), Eastwood won Oscars for Best Director, producer of the Best Picture, and received nominations for Best Actor. These films in particular, as well others such as Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), In the Line of Fire (1993), and Gran Torino (2008), have all received great critical acclaim and commercial success. Eastwood also has an interest in politics. He served as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. He has directed many of his films, and has also found success in others in which he has not acted such as Mystic River (2003). He is the only person to have starred in blockbuster films for five consecutive decades, making him the longest-running movie star.[3][4] at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007 Born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. May 31, 1930 (1930-05-31) San Francisco, California, U.S. film director, producer, actor, composer, politician 1955–present Maggie Johnson (1953–1984) Dina Ruiz (1996–present) Sondra Locke (1975–1989) Frances Fisher (1990–1995) Early life Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California, to Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth Eastwood (née Runner), a factory worker. Clint was born a very large baby at 11 pounds (5 kgs).[5] Eastwood has English, Scottish, Dutch, and Irish ancestry.[6] He was raised in a "middle class Protestant home"[7] and moved often as his father worked at a variety of jobs along the West Coast.[8] The family settled in Piedmont, California, during Eastwood’s teens, and he graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1949. He worked at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon when he was 18 or 19.[9] Eastwood then worked as a gas station attendant, as a fireman, and played ragtime piano at a bar in Oakland.[10] In 1950, during the Korean War, Eastwood was drafted into the U.S. Army, and was aboard a military flight that crashed Occupation Years active Spouse(s) Domestic partner(s) Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is primarily known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in violent action films, particularly urban police dramas in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia into the Pacific Ocean north of San Francisco (Drake’s Bay). He escaped serious injury, but had to remain behind to testify at a hearing investigating the cause of the crash. This kept him from being shipped to Korea with the rest of his unit.[11] During his military service, Eastwood became friends with fellow soldiers and future actors Martin Milner and David Janssen. Clint Eastwood An executive saw Eastwood on Rawhide and thought he looked like a cowboy, and at 6 ft 4 inches (193 cm) was a strong physical presence. Eastwood was invited to audition for Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964), though he was not the first actor approached to play the main character. A variety of actors, including Charles Bronson, Richard Harrison, Henry Fonda, James Coburn and Ty Hardin[14] were considered for the part.[15] The producers established a list of lesser-known American actors, and asked Harrison for advice. Harrison suggested Clint Eastwood, whom he knew could play a cowboy convincingly. Harrison later said: "Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing Fistful of Dollars, and recommending Clint for the part".[16] The film was to be shot in Spain and would become a benchmark in the development of the spaghetti westerns. Eastwood was instrumental in creating the Man With No Name character’s distinctive visual style that would appear throughout the Dollars trilogy. He bought the black jeans from a shop on Hollywood Boulevard, the hat from a Santa Monica wardrobe firm, and the trademark black cigars came from a Beverly Hills shop, though Eastwood himself is a nonsmoker. Since the film was an Italian/German/Spanish co-production, there was a major language barrier on the set. Eastwood communicated with the Italian cast and crew mostly through stuntman Benito Stefanelli, who acted as an unofficial interpreter for the production. Leone commented, "I like Clint Eastwood because he has only two facial expressions: one with the hat, and one without it".[17] Leone hired Eastwood to star in his trilogy, followed by For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967). Leone depicted a more lawless and desolate world than traditional westerns. All three films were hits, particularly the third, making Eastwood a major star, redefining the image of the American cowboy, though his character was actually a gunslinger and bounty hunter. Stardom brought more roles in the "tough guy" mold. Eastwood was paid $800,000 in 1968 for the war epic Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard Burton. The same year, he starred in the American revisionist western Hang ’Em High and Don Siegel’s Coogan’s Bluff, in which he played a lonely deputy sheriff who came to the big city of New York. Film career Clint Eastwood began acting during the mid-1950s, with brief appearances in B-films such as Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula, and Francis in the Navy. His break came when he won the role of Rowdy Yates in the TV series Rawhide, which ran from 1959 to 1966. As Rowdy Yates (whom Eastwood privately described as "the idiot of the plains"[12]), he became a household name across the United States. While appearing in the series, Eastwood also starred in several films, including Ambush at Cimarron Pass, which he has dismissed as "probably the lousiest Western ever made." Around the time the film was released Eastwood described himself as feeling "really depressed" and regards it as the lowest point in his career.[13] He seriously considered quitting the acting profession and returning to school to start doing something with his life. He did not make another theatrical film until he was contacted by Sergio Leone in 1964. He made a guest appearance on the western comedy TV series Maverick, in which he fought James Garner in the "Duel at Sundown" episode 1960s Eastwood as the Man with No Name in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clint Eastwood Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan Nevertheless, it was his portrayal of the hard-edged police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry that propelled Siegel’s most successful movie at the box-office. Dirty Harry is arguably Eastwood’s most memorable character. The film has been credited with inventing the "loose-cannon cop genre" that is imitated to this day. Eastwood’s tough, no-nonsense cop touched a cultural nerve with many who were fed up with crime in the streets. Dirty Harry led to four sequels: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988). Eastwood directed two allegorical westerns during the 1970s: High Plains Drifter (1973) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). High Plains Drifter would be the first of six movies Eastwood made with friend Geoffrey Lewis and Josey Wales would be the first of six movies he starred in with companion Sondra Locke. The film also featured his real-life son Kyle Eastwood, then seven years old. Eastwood frequently collaborated with Locke, Lewis, Bill McKinney, Albert Popwell, and Dan Vadis throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1974, Eastwood teamed with Jeff Bridges in the buddy action flick Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. The movie was written and directed by Michael Cimino, who had previously written the Dirty Harry sequel Magnum Force. In 1975, Eastwood brought another talent to the screen: rock climbing. In The Eiger Sanction, in which he directed and starred, Eastwood — a 5.9 climber — performed his own rock climbing stunts. This film has become a cult classic among rock-climbers. This film was done before the advent of CGI, A model of Eastwood as the Man with No Name. The film was controversial for its portrayal of violence, but it launched a more than tenyear collaboration between Eastwood and Siegel, and set the prototype for the macho hero that Eastwood would play in the Dirty Harry films. He was scheduled to be cast as Two-Face on 1966-68 Batman television series, but the production ended. In 1969, Eastwood branched out. Paint Your Wagon was a musical starring Eastwood along with fellow non-singers Lee Marvin and Jean Seberg. 1970s In 1970, Eastwood appeared in the war movie, Kelly’s Heroes, and in the Siegel-directed western, Two Mules for Sister Sara, costarring Shirley MacLaine. Both movies combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor. In The Beguiled, another movie directed by Siegel, Eastwood played a wounded Union soldier held captive by the sexually repressed matron of a southern girls’ school. 1971 proved to be a professional turning point in Eastwood’s career. His own production company, Malpaso, gave Eastwood the artistic control that he desired, allowing him to direct his first film, Play Misty for Me. 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia so no digital manipulation was used in the film. Clint Eastwood with Jessica Walter in Play Misty For Me In 1977, Eastwood directed and starred in the hit The Gauntlet, in which he played a down-and-out cop who falls in love with a prostitute whom he’s assigned to escort from Las Vegas to Phoenix; to testify against the mob. Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand were originally cast as the film’s stars. However, fighting between the two forced them to drop out of the project, with Eastwood and Sondra Locke replacing them. In 1978, Eastwood starred in Every Which Way But Loose an uncharacteristic, offbeat comedy role. Eastwood played Philo Beddoe, a trucker and brawler who roamed the American West, searching for a lost love, while accompanying his best friend/manager Orville and his pet orangutan, Clyde. Arguably, Clyde stole the show. Panned originally by critics, the movie evolved into a blockbuster hit, becoming the second-highest grossing film of 1978. In 1979, Eastwood played yet another memorable role as the prison escapee Frank Morris in the fact-based movie Escape from Alcatraz, which was also his last collaboration with Don Siegel. Morris was an escape artist who was sent to Alcatraz in 1960 which, at the time was, one of the toughest prisons in America. Morris devised a meticulous plan to escape from "The Rock" and, in 1962, he and two other prisoners broke out of the prison and entered San Francisco Bay. The FBI maintains that the escapees drowned. Eastwood in 1981 in the sequel to Every Which Way But Loose entitled Any Which Way You Can. Despite bad reviews from critics, the sequel also became another box-office success. In 1982, Eastwood directed, produced and starred in the Cold War-themed Firefox. The fourth Dirty Harry film Sudden Impact (1983), widely considered to be the darkest, "dirtiest" and most violent film of the series. Also, it was the highest-grossing film of the franchise, making Eastwood a viable star for 1980s In 1980, Eastwood starred in two films: first playing the main attraction in a traveling circus show in Bronco Billy; he reprised his role 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the 1980s. This would be the last time he starred in a film with frequent leading lady Sondra Locke. President Ronald Reagan referred to his famous "Go ahead, make my day." line in one of his speeches. Three of Eastwood’s films in the 1980s featured his real-life children. His son Kyle starring as his nephew in Honkytonk Man (1982). His daughter Alison had a small role as an orphan in Bronco Billy, and a much bigger role as his daughter in the provocative thriller Tightrope (1984), in which Eastwood starred as a cop lured by the promise of kinky sex. Eastwood starred and directed the period comedy City Heat (1984) with Burt Reynolds and the military drama Heartbreak Ridge (1986). He revisited the western genre directing and starring in Pale Rider (1985), an homage to the western film classic Shane, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Clint Eastwood Eastwood rose to prominence yet again in the early 1990s. He revisited the western genre in the self-directed 1992 film, Unforgiven, taking on the role of an aging ex-gunfighter long past his prime. The film, also starring such esteemed actors as Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris, laying the groundwork for such later westerns as Deadwood by re-envisioning established genre conventions in a more ambiguous and unromantic light. A great success both in terms of box office and critical acclaim, it was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Actor for Eastwood and Best Original Screenplay for David Webb Peoples. It won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. As of 2009, Unforgiven is the last western film that Eastwood has made. The following year, Eastwood played a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the thriller In the Line of Fire (1993), co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (as of 2009 it is his last acting role in a film he did not direct himself). This film was a blockbuster and among the top 10 box-office performers in that year. Eastwood directed and starred with Kevin Costner in A Perfect World the same year, though it was not nearly as successful as Fire. He continued to expand his repertoire by playing opposite Meryl Streep in the love story The Bridges of Madison County (1995). Based on a best-selling novel, it was also a hit at the box-office. The film, which Eastwood also directed, was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and earned Streep a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Afterward, Eastwood turned to more directing work—much of it well-received—including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), which starred John Cusack, Kevin Spacey and Jude Law as well as Eastwood’s daughter Alison and former frequent costar Geoffrey Lewis. He directed and starred in the successful political thriller Absolute Power (1997), co-starring Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, and Dennis Haysbert. His next film, True Crime (1999), featured his wife Dina as well as his ex-girlfriend Frances Fisher and daughter Francesca. "Go ahead, make my day." Eastwood’s fifth and final Dirty Harry film, The Dead Pool (1988), was a commercial success, but was generally panned by critics. Eastwood starred in the poorly received comedy Pink Cadillac, which would be the first of three movies he has made with Frances Fisher. He turned to smaller, more personal projects, such as directing Bird (1988), a biopic of jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker, a genre of music that Eastwood has always been personally interested in. The film earned him a Golden Palm nomination at the Cannes Film Festival. 1990s In 1990, Eastwood directed and starred in The Rookie (1990) with Charlie Sheen, and starred as the legendary film-maker John Huston in White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), an adaptation of Peter Viertel’s roman à clef about the making of the classic The African Queen. The latter received some critical attention but only a limited release. Overall, neither film was well-received. 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clint Eastwood Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Eastwood also received a Grammy nomination for the score he composed for the film. Grossing more than $216 million at the box office, Million Dollar Baby was the highest grossing film of his career at the time. [19] In 2006, Eastwood directed two films about the battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. The first one, Flags of Our Fathers, focused on the men who raised the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi. The second one, Letters from Iwo Jima, dealt with the tactics of the Japanese soldiers on the island and the letters they wrote to family members. Both films were highly praised by critics and garnered several Oscar nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture for Letters from Iwo Jima. In 2008, Eastwood directed the Oscarnominated drama Changeling, which starred Angelina Jolie. That same year, Eastwood ended his "self-imposed acting hiatus"[20] with Gran Torino. Eastwood directed, starred, held a producer role, and co-wrote the theme song for the film.[21] The film was wide-released in January, grossing close to $30 million during its opening weekend and making him the oldest leading man to reach #1 at the box office. The film has grossed over $245 million worldwide as of April 29[22] and is the highest-grossing film of Eastwood’s career so far without adjustment for inflation. 2000s In 2000, Eastwood directed and starred in Space Cowboys, which also starred Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner. In the film, he plays Frank Corvin, a retired NASA engineer called upon to save a dying Russian satellite. After a string of less commercially successful films, Space Cowboys was his biggest commercial success in seven years, grossing nearly $130 million at the box office.[18] In 2002, Eastwood played an ex-FBI agent on the track of a sadistic killer in Blood Work, which was derived from a book by Michael Connelly. In 2003, he directed the Boston crime drama Mystic River about murder, vigilantism, and sexual abuse starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins and Lawrence Fishburne. The film was a commercial success and won two Academy Awards, as well as nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. Other projects Eastwood has his own Warner Bros. Recordsdistributed imprint, Malpaso Records, as part of his deal with Warner Bros. This deal was unchanged when Warner Music Group was sold by Time Warner to private investors. Malpaso has released all of the scores of Eastwood’s films from The Bridges of Madison County onward. It also released the album of a 1996 jazz concert he hosted, titled Eastwood after Hours — Live at Carnegie Hall. Eastwood had tried for some time to direct an episode of Rawhide, even being promised at one point the possibility of doing so. However, because of differences between the president of the studio and show producers, Eastwood’s opportunity fell through. In 1985, he made his only foray into TV direction to date with the Amazing Stories episode Vanessa In The Garden, starring Harvey Keitel and Sondra Locke; this was his first Eastwood in 2005 In 2005, Eastwood found critical and commercial success when he directed, produced, scored, and starred in the boxing drama Million Dollar Baby. Eastwood played a cantankerous trainer who forms a bond with the female boxer (Hilary Swank) he reluctantly trains after being persuaded by his lifelong friend (Morgan Freeman). The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as earning Eastwood a Best Actor nomination and a win for Best Director. Swank and Freeman also won Oscars for their performances, and the trio was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia collaboration with writer/executive producer Steven Spielberg (Spielberg later produced A Perfect World, Flags of Our Fathers, and Letters from Iwo Jima). Eastwood has chosen a wide variety of films to direct, some clearly commercial, others highly personal. Clint Eastwood As producer, director, and actor, Eastwood has worked exclusively with legendary film poster designer Bill Gold. Gold designed (and often photographed) posters for 35 Clint Eastwood films, from Dirty Harry (1971) to Million Dollar Baby (2004). Eastwood will be directing the Nelson Mandela bio-pic The Human Factor, a film based on a 2008 book by John Carlin (Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation ISBN 978-1-59420-174-5), starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby team captain Francois Pienaar. Carlin sold the film rights to Morgan Freeman.[25] Eastwood and Warner Bros. have purchased the film rights to James R. Hansen’s First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, the authorized biography of astronaut Neil Armstrong. No production date has been announced. As of November 2008, he is in talks to direct Peter Morgan’s Hereafter for DreamWorks.[26] Eastwood had announced that he has all but retired from acting, although maintained that "if a good western script turns up, you never know..." In 2008, he starred in Gran Torino, which was not a western. Eastwood currently donates funds toward the new CSUMB campus library. In early 2007, Eastwood announced that he will produce a Bruce Ricker documentary about jazz legend Dave Brubeck. The film is tentatively titled Dave Brubeck – In His Own Sweet Way. It will trace the development of Brubeck’s latest composition, the Cannery Row Suite. This work was commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival and premiered at the 2006 festival. Eastwood’s film crews captured early rehearsals, sound checks, and the final performance. Ricker and Eastwood are currently working on a documentary about Tony Bennett, as well, titled The Music Never Ends.[27] Eastwood in 2007 Eastwood produces many of his films, and is well known in the industry for his efficient, low-cost approach to making films; he has said that "everything I do as a director is based upon what I prefer as an actor."[23] Over the years, he has developed relationships with many other filmmakers, working over and over with the same crew, production designers, cinematographers, editors, and other technical people. Similarly, he has a long-term relationship with the Warner Bros. studio, which finances and releases most of his films. However, in a 2004 interview appearing in The New York Times, Eastwood noted that he still sometimes has difficulty convincing the studio to back his films. In the 2000s, Eastwood also began composing music for some of his films.[24] He is one of the subjects profiled in the documentary Fog City Mavericks, which interviews Eastwood alongside other fellow San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers such as George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. Politics Eastwood has been registered as a Republican since 1951 and openly supported Richard Nixon’s 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. He usually describes himself as a libertarian in interviews.[28] He says his philosophy is "Everyone leaves everyone else alone".[29] Eastwood made one successful foray into elected politics, becoming the Mayor of 7 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clint Eastwood In March 2008, Eastwood and Shriver, whose terms had expired, were not reappointed.[33] The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) asked for a legislative investigation into the decision to not re-appoint Eastwood and Shriver, citing their opposition to the toll road extension.[34] According to the NRDC and The New Republic, Eastwood and Shriver were not reappointed again in 2008 because both Eastwood and Shriver opposed the freeway extension of California State Route 241, that would cut through the San Onofre State Beach.[35][36] This extension is likewise supported by Governor Schwarzenegger.[35][36] Schwarzenegger’s press release appointing Alice Huffman and Lindy DeKoven to replace Eastwood and Shriver makes no mention of a reason for the commission change.[37][38] Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Eastwood (along with actor and director Danny DeVito, actor and director Bill Duke, producer Tom Werner and producer and director Lili Zanuck) to the California Film Commission in April 2004.[39] During the 2008 United States Presidential Election, Eastwood endorsed John McCain for President.[40] Eastwood with President Ronald Reagan in the late 1980s Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (population 4,000), a wealthy small town and artist community on the Monterey Peninsula, for one term. During his tenure, he completed Heartbreak Ridge and Bird.[30] In 2001, he was appointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission by Governor Gray Davis.[31] He was reappointed in 2004 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger[32], whom he supported in the elections of 2003 and 2006. Eastwood, the vice chairman of the commission, and commission chairman, Bobby Shriver, Schwarzenegger’s brother-in-law, led a California State Park and Recreation Commission panel in its unanimous opposition in 2005 to a six-lane, 16-mile (26 km), toll road that would cut through San Onofre State Beach, north of San Diego, and one of Southern California’s most cherished surfing beaches. Eastwood and Shriver also supported a 2006 lawsuit to block the toll road and urged the California Coastal Commission to reject the project, which it did in February 2008.[33] Personal life Relationships & family Eastwood married model and fellow college student Maggie Johnson on December 19, 1953, just six months after being set up on a blind date. According to the unauthorized biography, Clint: The Life and Legend, Eastwood was unfaithful to her the entire time they were married, and he had affairs with many women including Jean Seberg, Jo Ann Harris, Peggy Lipton, Barbra Streisand, and James Brolin’s ex-wife Jane. In the early 1960s, Eastwood began a secret affair with Roxanne Tunis, an extra on Rawhide. They had a daughter, Kimber, born on June 17, 1964. Over the years, Eastwood financially supported Kimber and her mother, and would secretly visit them every three to four months. Kimber’s existence was not made public until 1989. She had a small role in her father’s film, Absolute Power in 1997. Eastwood refused to have children with his wife at first. She then became very ill with hepatitis. After she recovered, he changed his mind. They went on to have two Take Pride in America Spokesman Eastwood in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California 8 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia children: Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) and Alison Eastwood, (born May 22, 1972). They split when she became aware that he had been carrying on a long-term affair with Sondra Locke. Clint was ordered to pay Maggie $25 million, $1 million for each year they were married. Though they had filed for a legal separation in 1978, their divorce was not finalized until May 1984. Eastwood and Sondra Locke starred together in six films: The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way but Loose, Bronco Billy, Any Which Way You Can, and Sudden Impact. They first met in 1972, and began a romantic relationship during the filming of Josey Wales, though both denied it at the time. They lived together for 14 years.[41] In 1989, unbeknown to Locke, Eastwood changed the locks on their home and put all of her belongings in storage while she was at work. Locke filed a palimony suit against him, asking for $1.3 million. She claimed that Eastwood persuaded her to have two abortions and a tubal ligation. Eastwood has adamantly denied the allegations. He gained a reputation as a womanizer when it was discovered he fathered two children, Scott Eastwood (b. March 21, 1986) and Kathryn Eastwood (b. Feb 2, 1988), with airline hostess Jacelyn Reeves, while he was still involved with Locke. In 1991, Eastwood and Locke reached an amicable agreement that consisted of Eastwood giving Locke a directing deal with Warner Bros. The studio never produced her proposed films nor hired her to direct. In 1996, they were back in court, with Locke filing another lawsuit, this time against Warner Bros., alleging that the company had never intended to make any films with her, and that Eastwood had compensated Warner Bros. for the contract. On September 10, 1996, not long after the trial began, the trial judge issued an order ejecting the media from all hearings in the trial held outside of the presence of the jury. The order was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court of California in 1999.[42] Locke’s autobiography The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly includes a harrowing account of her years with Eastwood. In 1999, they settled out of court for a reportedly large settlement. The details of the settlement were not publicly disclosed. Following his breakup with Locke, Eastwood moved in with Frances Fisher, whom he had begun an affair with during the filming of Pink Cadillac in 1988. The couple went Clint Eastwood on to co-star together in the blockbuster Unforgiven. They had a daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, born on August 7, 1993. Their relationship ended in 1995, but they remained friends and have since costarred in another film, True Crime. Frances is very close to Eastwood’s wife Dina. Eastwood with wife Dina in 2007 Later in 1995, Eastwood began a relationship with future wife Dina Eastwood, an anchorwoman 35 years his junior. They had first met when she interviewed him in 1993, and became good friends. They married on March 31, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clint’s son, Kyle, served as best man. Their daughter, Morgan Eastwood, was born later that year on December 12, 1996. Dina maintains a friendly relationship with all of her husband’s children and their mothers, and often brings the whole family together at their ranch. Eastwood, speaking in 2008 said of his fatherhood in his late seventies; "I’m a much better father now than when I was younger because then I was working all around the world and I was desperate to find the brass ring, so I worked constantly. Now my daughter takes precedence over everything and, even though I’ve done a lot of work in the past year, I haven’t ignored her or have not been involved in her school activities. I go to all the softball games and look ridiculous out there because almost everybody’s got a much younger father than me. But it’s fun. I think you appreciate everything a lot more when you get to my age. I never started out thinking I would have a big family. But now, it’s very important to me, and family relationships take precedence over work".[43] Eastwood has two grandchildren, Clinton (Kimber’s son, born February 21, 1984) and Graylen (Kyle’s daughter, born March 28, 1994). 9 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clint Eastwood River, Sean Penn in Mystic River, Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby, and Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby. Eastwood has received numerous other awards, including an America Now TV Award as well as one of the 2000 Kennedy Center Honors. He received an honorary degree from University of the Pacific in 2006, and an honorary degree from University of Southern California in 2007. In 1995 he received the honorary Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in film producing.[48] In 2006, he received a nomination for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Million Dollar Baby. In 2007, Eastwood was the first recipient of the Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award, an annual award presented by the MPAA to individuals in the motion picture industry whose work has reached out positively and respectfully to the world. He received the award for his work on the 2006 films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.[49] On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts. In early 2007, Eastwood was presented with the highest civilian distinction in France, Légion d’honneur, at a ceremony in Paris. French President Jacques Chirac told Eastwood that he embodied "the best of Hollywood".[50] On September 22, 2007, Eastwood was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music at the Monterey Jazz Festival, on which he serves as an active board member. Upon receiving the award he gave a speech, claiming, "It’s one of the great honors I’ll cherish in this lifetime."[51] He was also honored with the "Cinema for Peace Award 2007 for Most Valuable Movie of the Year" for "Flags of our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima". Eastwood received the 2008 Best Actor award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures for his performance in Gran Torino.[52] On 29 April 2009, the Japanese government announced that Eastwood was to receive the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd ClassGold Rays with Neck Ribbon on 8 May in a formal presentation.[53] Leisure Eastwood owns the exclusive Tehàma Golf Club, located in Carmel-by-the-Sea. The invitation-only club reportedly has around 300 members and a joining price of $500,000. He is an investor of the world famous Pebble Beach Golf Links[44]. Eastwood is also the owner of the Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant, located in Carmel-by-theSea. He is an experienced pilot and sometimes flies his own helicopter to the studio to avoid traffic. Eastwood is an audiophile, known for his love of jazz. He owns an extensive collection of LPs which he plays on a Rockport turntable. His interest in music was passed on to his son Kyle, now a jazz musician. Eastwood co-wrote "Why Should I Care" with Linda Thompson and Carole Bayer Sager which was recorded by Diana Krall.[45] He has voiced criticism of hunters, saying, "I don’t go for hunting. I just don’t like killing creatures. Unless they’re trying to kill me. Then that would be fine."[46] He loves to play golf and donates his time every year to charitable causes at major tournaments. In 1975 Eastwood publicly proclaimed his participation in Transcendental Meditation when he appeared on the Merv Griffin Show with the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. [47] Image and popularity See Clint Eastwood in popular culture Filmography See Clint Eastwood filmography Awards and honors Eastwood is one of two people to have been twice nominated for Best Actor and Best Director for the same film (Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby) the other being Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait and Reds). He is one of only three living directors (along with Miloš Forman and Francis Ford Coppola) to have directed two Best Picture winners. At age 78, he is the oldest director to achieve this distinction. Eastwood directed five actors in Academy Award-winning performances: Gene Hackman in Unforgiven, Tim Robbins in Mystic 10 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Awards and achievements Cecil B. DeMille Award Preceded by Anthony Quinn Hollywood Foreign Press Preceded by Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor Academy Award Preceded by Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs Preceded by Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs Hollywood Foreign Press Preceded by Oliver Stone for JFK American Film Institute Preceded by Steven Spielberg Preceded by Michael Moore for Bowling for Columbine Academy Award AFI Life Achievement Award 1996 César Award for Best Foreign Film 2004 for Mystic River Cecil B. DeMille Award 1988 Clint Eastwood Succeeded by Doris Day Golden Globe Award for Best Dir- Succeeded by Oliver Stone ector - Motion Picture 1989 for Born on the Fourth for Bird of July Academy Award for Best Director Succeeded by 1992 Steven Spielberg for Unforgiven for Schindler’s List Directors Guild of America Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film 1992 for Unforgiven Succeeded by Steven Spielberg for Schindler’s List Golden Globe Award for Best Dir- Succeeded by Steven Spielberg ector - Motion Picture 1993 for Schindler’s List for Unforgiven Succeeded by Martin Scorsese Succeeded by Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma Preceded by Academy Award for Best Director Succeeded by Peter Jackson 2004 Ang Lee for The Lord of the for Million Dollar Baby for Brokeback Mountain Rings: The Return of the King Directors Guild of America Preceded by Directors Guild of America Peter Jackson Award for Outstanding Achievefor The Lord of the ment in Feature Film Rings: The Return of the 2004 King for Million Dollar Baby Chicago Film Critics Association Succeeded by Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain 11 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Preceded by Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Hollywood Foreign Press Preceded by Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Preceded by Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 2004 for Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood Succeeded by David Cronenberg for A History of Violence Golden Globe Award for Best Dir- Succeeded by Ang Lee ector - Motion Picture 2005 for Brokeback Mountain for Million Dollar Baby Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma César Award for Best Foreign Film 2006 for Million Dollar Baby Won Y Y Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman Y Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh – The Return of the King Peter Jackson – The Return of the King 2004 Million Dollar Baby Y Y Jamie Foxx – Ray 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima Graham King – The Departed Martin Scorsese – The Departed • 2007 — Best Fathers • 2007 — Best Jima • 2008 — Best Gone • 2008 — Best Gone • 2008 — Best Director — Flags of Our Director — Letters from Iwo Original Score — Grace is Original Song — Grace is Original Song — Gran Torino Succeeded by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine Award Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Year Film 1992 Unforgiven Irving G. Thalberg Me- 1995 Honorary morial Award Award Best Picture Best Director Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Picture Best Director 2003 Mystic River Academy Award nominations Golden Globe nominations • • • • • 1993 — Best Motion Picture Drama — Unforgiven • 1996 — Best Motion Picture Drama — The Bridges of Madison County • 2004 — Best Director — Mystic River • 2004 — Best Motion Picture Drama — Mystic River • 2005 — Best Original Score — Million Dollar Baby • Discography Eastwood is also a musician, pianist and composer. He composed the film score to the 2007 film Grace is Gone and original piano compositions for In the Line of Fire. Albums 12 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Year 1963 Album Rawhide’s Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites Chart Positions US Country US Clint Eastwood Year Single Album 1961 "Unknown Girl" 1962 "Rowdy" "For You, For Me, For Evermore" 1980 "Bar Room Buddies" (with Merle Haggard) "Beers to You" (with Ray Charles) 1981 "Cowboy in a Three Piece Suit" 1984 "Make My Day" (with T. G. Sheppard) 2009 "Gran Torino" (as Walt Kowalski with Jamie Cullum) singles only 1 55 12 62 Bronco Billy Soundtrack singles only Slow Burn (T. G. Sheppard album) single only Singles References [1] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/ awards [2] Fischer, Lucy, Landy, Marcia, Smith, Paul (2004) Stars: The Film Reader:Action Movie Hysteria of Eastwood Bound, p.43, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-27893-7 [3] http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/ 2009/1/14/is-clint-eastwood-the-longestrunning-movie-star-ever.html [4] http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0648246/ [5] guardian.co.uk Gentle man Clint, November 2, 2008 [6] Smith, Paul (1993). Clint Eastwood a Cultural Production. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816619581. [7] adherents.com The Religious Affiliation of actor/director Clint Eastwood [8] CBS Evening News interview, February 6, 2005 [9] The King of Western Swing - Bob Wills Remembered. Rosetta Wills. 1998. page 165 ISBN 0-8230-7744-6. [10] Career [11] sammonsays.com John Sammon interview of Eastwood [12] Reader’s Digest Australia: RD Face to Face: Clint Eastwood [13] McGilligan, Patrick. Clint:The Life and Legend. Harper Collins. pp. 93. ISBN 0-00-638354-8. [14] Relive the thrilling days of the Old West in film | TahoeBonanza.com [15] A Fistful of Dollars [16] Richard Harrison interview [17] (italian only) http://www.cinemadelsilenzio.it/ index.php?mod=interview&id=17 [18] http://the-numbers.com/movies/2000/ SPCOW.php [19] http://the-numbers.com/movies/2004/ MDBAB.php [20] http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ news/reviews/la-ettorino12-2008dec12,0,2314630.story [21] http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/ grantorino?q=gran%20torino [22] http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/ ?id=grantorino.htm [23] John Hiscock (2008-11-13). "Clint Eastwood on Changeling: Angelina Jolie ’a fine actress hampered by beauty’". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/ main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/ arts/2008/11/13/bfclint113.xml. Retrieved on 2008-11-15. [24] "Filmography as composer". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/ name/nm0000142/#composer. Retrieved on 2008-11-07. 13 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clint Eastwood [25] Keller, Bill. - "Entering the Scrum". - The Eastwood, Werner and Zanuck to Film New York Times Book Review. - August Commission". - Office of the Governor 17, 2008. State of California - April 15, 2004. [26] Siegel, Tatiana (13 November 2008). Retrieved: 2008-05-28 "Eastwood, Spielberg talking thriller". [40] Aguilar, Lou (2008-07-18). "Real Men Variety (Reed Business Information). Vote for McCain". National Review. http://www.variety.com/article/ http://article.nationalreview.com/ VR1117995852.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562. ?q=MTkyNTJkNDY1ZDdjMzBjNTA0NmJlMDNhZWQ2 Retrieved on 2008-11-18. Retrieved on 2009-04-30. [27] University of the Pacific Media Relations [41] http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/ (2007-03-14). "Clint Eastwood and Other nov/02/clint-eastwood-drama Illustrious Artists Honor Jazz Legend [42] NBC Subsidiary (KNBC-TV), Inc. v. Dave Brubeck". University of the Pacific. Superior Court, [20 Cal. 4th 1178] http://web.pacific.edu/x6894.xml. (1999). Retrieved on 2007-03-15. [43] Hiscock, John (December 14, 2008). "Go [28] Clint Eastwood talks to Jeff Dawson ahead, offer Clint Eastwood another [29] Libertarian website good script". The Toronto Star. [30] Eastwood website http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/ [31] "Governor Schwarzenegger Movies/article/553153. Retrieved on Appointments to the State Park and December 16 2008. Recreation Commission" - California [44] California rejects Clint Eastwood’s State Park and Recreation Commission. Monterey golf course - Travel Retrieved: 2008-05-28 LATimes.com [32] Press Release: "Governor [45] Krall, Eastwood Team For ’crime’ | Schwarzenegger Announces Entertainment & Arts > Music Industry Appointments to the State Park and from AllBusiness.com Recreation Commission" - Office of the [46] Clint Eastwood targets the legacy of Governor - State of California - March 4, Dirty Harry - Los Angeles Times 2004. - Retrieved: 2008-05-28 [47] http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/sections/ [33] ^ Young, Samantha. - "Schwarzenegger life/life/article_628247.php removes his brother-in-law and Clint [48] Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Eastwood from Calif. parks panel". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Associated Press. - ( San Diego UnionSciences Tribune). - March 20, 2008. - Retrieved: [49] Eastwood tapped first recipient of 2008-05-28 MPAA’s Valenti honor news.yahoo.com [34] Group wants probe into governor’s [50] Eastwood Receives French Honor removal of Eastwood, Shriver". - San news.bbc.co.uk Diego Union-Tribune. - March 22, 2008. [51] "Clint Eastwood Receives Berklee Retrieved: 2008-05-28 Degree at Monterey Jazz Festival (news [35] ^ Patashnik, Josh. - "It’s Not a Tumor". release)". Berklee College of Music. The New Republic. - April 23, 2008. 2007-09-24. http://www.berklee.edu/ Retrieved: 2008-05-28 news/2007/09/0924.html. Retrieved on [36] ^ "California Rejects Superhighway in 2008-04-23. State Park". - Natural Resources Defense [52] "NBR names ’Slumdog’ best of year". Council. - Retrieved: 2008-05-28 Variety. 12/4/2008. [37] Press Release: "Governor http://www.variety.com/ Schwarzenegger Announces awardcentral_article/ Appointments" - Office of the Governor VR1117996815.html?nav=news&categoryid=1983& State of California - May 23, 2008. [53] Japan Today: [1] Retrieved: 2008-05-28 [38] "Schwarzenegger names replacements for parks panel". - Associated Press. (c/o • Engel, Leonard (2007). Clint Eastwood, Yahoo! News). - May 23, 2008. Actor and Director: New Perspectives. Retrieved: 2008-05-28 University of Utah Press. ISBN [39] Press Release: "Governor 9780874809008, ISBN 0-87480-900-2. Schwarzenegger Appoints DeVito, Duke, Further reading 14 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Johnstone, Iain (2007). The Man with No Name: The Biography of Clint Eastwood. Plexus Publishing, Limited. ISBN 9780859653879, ISBN 0-85965-387-0. • McGilligan, Patrick (2001). Clint: The Life and Legend. Perseus Books Group. ISBN 9780786708437, ISBN 0-7867-0843-3. • Schickel, Richard (1996). Clint Eastwood: A Biography. Knopf. ISBN 9780679429746, ISBN 0-679-42974-3. • Thompson, Douglas (2005). Clint Eastwood: Billion Dollar Man. John Blake. ISBN 1857825721, ISBN 978-1-85782-572-5. Clint Eastwood • Entertainment Weekly Photo Gallery: Clint Eastwood • Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database • Clint Eastwood Forums • [2] Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Eastwood, Clint Eastwood, Clinton, Jr. Actor, director, film producer May 31, 1930 San Francisco, California, U.S. External links • Clint Eastwood at the Internet Movie Database • Clint Eastwood Icon Photo Gallery at AMCTV.com • Charlie Rose show: An hour with Clint Eastwood • 2007 In-depth interview with Clint Eastwood from The Observer Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" Categories: 1930 births, Living people, Akira Kurosawa Award winners, American actor-politicians, American film actors, American film directors, American libertarians, American television actors, Dutch Americans, English Americans, Irish-Americans, Scottish-Americans, Best Director Academy Award winners, Best Director Golden Globe winners, Actors from California, California Republicans, César Award winners, Eastwood family, English-language film directors, Fellini Gold Medalists, Kennedy Center honorees, Légion d'honneur recipients, Mayors of places in California, People from Oakland, California, People from Piedmont, California, People from San Francisco, California, Producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award, Spaghetti Western actors, United States Army soldiers, Western (genre) film actors, Western (genre) film directors, American Protestants This page was last modified on 21 May 2009, at 14:42 (UTC). 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