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Definition: Eastwood, Clint from Philip's Encyclopedia

US film actor and director. Following the television series Rawhide, Eastwood played the drifter in the 'spaghetti westerns' A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967). Dirty Harry (1971) and its four sequels were uncompromising. As a director, he earned praise for The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Bird (1988). Eastwood won Academy Awards for best director, best actor, and best picture for Unforgiven (1992).


Eastwood, Clint

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(Clinton Eastwood, Jr.), 1930–, American actor and director, b. San Francisco. Eastwood, who began his acting career in 1955, came to public attention in the TV Western Rawhide and in so-called spaghetti Westerns (usually filmed in Italy), such as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966). As an actor, Eastwood is best known for portraying strong, silent, often violent heroes in action films. He has starred in more than 40 movies, including Dirty Harry (1972), Magnum Force (1973), The Outlaw Josie Wales (1976), and In the Line of Fire (1993). Films in which he is both director and star include Play Misty for Me (1971), Sudden Impact (1983), the Academy Award–winning Unforgiven (1992), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), True Crime (1999), Blood Work (2002), and Gran Torino (2008). Eastwood scored a critical and box-office success as director of Mystic River (2003), a haunting cinematic parable of violence and revenge. The following year he directed and…
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American, born in San Francisco, California. Signed to Universal Pictures, he made his film debut in Revenge of the Creature (1955). The popularity of the long-running television series Rawhide brought him an offer to film a series of spaghetti westerns in Italy, making him an international star. He…
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US film actor, director, producer, and composer. His breakthrough came in the Western A Fistful of Dollars (1964), after which he proved himself a box-office attraction in such films as Dirty Harry (1973), directed by his regular collaborator Don Siegel . In 1971 he started an accomplished directing…
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Tomorrow our marriage will be 21 years old! How many a storm has swept over it and still it continues green and fresh and throws out vigorous roots. [Attr.] It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. [At a nightclub in Chicago, 1964] To marry a man…
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(born May 31, 1930, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) U.S. actor and director. He won attention in the television series Rawhide (1959–66) before his roles in three of Sergio Leone ’s “spaghetti westerns” (1964–66) made him an international star. He returned to the U.S. for the successful Dirty Harry…
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(Clinton Eastwood, Jr.), 1930–, American actor and director, b. San Francisco. Eastwood, who began his acting career in 1955, came to public attention in the TV Western Rawhide and in so-called spaghetti Westerns (usually filmed in Italy), such as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Good, the Bad, …
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(b. May 31, 1930, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) Clinton Eastwood, Jr. is an American motion-picture actor who emerged as one of the most popular Hollywood stars in the 1970s and went on to become a prolific and respected director-producer. E ARLY L IFE AND C AREER Growing up during the Great…
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