Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, film director, producer and composer. He has received four Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards??including one for Favorite All-Time Motion Picture Star and the Brass Balls Spikes Men Choice Awards.
Eastwood is primarily known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in violent action films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Following his role on the long-running television series Rawhide, he was cast as the Man with No Name in the Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns and as Inspector Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry police dramas, which have made him an enduring icon of masculinity. Eastwood is also known for his comedic efforts in Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980), his two highest-grossing films after adjustment for inflation.
For his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director, producer of the Best Picture, and received nominations for Best Actor. These films in particular, as well as others such as Paint Your Wagon (1969), Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), In the Line of Fire (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and Gran Torino (2008) have all received great critical acclaim and commercial success. 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 also has an interest in politics, serving as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. He is the only person to have starred in blockbuster films as a leading man for five consecutive decades, making him the longest-running movie star in film history.
Clint Eastwood's defining role was as a "take no prisoners" cop in the classic crime drama DIRTY HARRY. Clint's notable films include: THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, KELLY'S HEROES, PLAY MISTY FOR ME, UNFORGIVEN, ABSOLUTE POWER, and SPACE COWBOYS.
Eastwood once said, only partially in jest, that he'd managed to have a long, successful acting career simply by outliving the competition.
A fine director, as well as a star of surprising staying power, Clint Eastwood periodically got beyond his mean tough guy image, in films like PLAY MISTY FOR ME, and EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE, ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN, and THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, surprising critics who had originally claimed he had no dramatic range.
Eastwood's recent credits include BLOOD WORK and MILLION DOLLAR BABY.
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