Clint Eastwood
Acting
- Born:
- 1930-05-31
- Place of birth:
- San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is a retired American film actor, director, producer, composer, and former politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series "Rawhide" (1959–65), Eastwood starred as 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") in 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. 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/or critical acclaim. Eastwood's only comedies have been "Every Which Way but Loose" (1978) and its sequel "Any Which Way You Can" (1980); despite being widely panned by critics they are the two highest-grossing films of his career after adjusting for inflation. Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he 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), which received Golden Globe Award nominations. 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 the vast majority of his films. He also served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood has seven children by five women, although he has only married twice. An audiophile, Eastwood is also associated with jazz and has composed and performed pieces in several films along with his eldest son, Kyle Eastwood. On June 1, 2026, his retirement was confirmed by his son, Kyle Eastwood.
Known For
Filmography
Norwood, Where Legends Were Born
Clint Eastwood : la légende
Eastwood Symphonic
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Why on Earth
Ennio
Betty White: A Celebration
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Eastwood: The Life of a Hollywood Legend
Cry Macho
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Morceaux de Cannes
Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende
The Mule
Sad Hill Unearthed
Marisol: Sergio Leone's Madonna in the West
Die Clint Eastwood Story
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
The True Story of...
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
The Making of 'American Sniper'
One Soldier's Story: The Journey of American Sniper
Anything Is Possible
Tab Hunter Confidential
American Sniper
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jean Seberg Forever
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Milius
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
L'album secret de Clint Eastwood
Casting By
Trouble with the Curve
Reconciliation: Mandela's Miracle
Clint Eastwood's West
Kurosawa's Way
Reel Injun
The Eastwood Factor
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
Vittorio D.
Gran Torino: Manning the Wheel
Gran Torino: Next Door
Gran Torino - The Eastwood Way
Gran Torino - Driving the Dream
Gran Torino
Wisdom
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
The Craft of Dirty Harry
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
Cannes: All Access
Fog City Mavericks
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Clint Eastwood, le franc-tireur
Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
The Spaghetti West
James Lipton Takes on Three
Born to Fight
Pennis from Heaven
Million Dollar Baby
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
CMT Insider
Leone's West
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
Piano Blues
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
A Decade Under the Influence
Italian Kings Of B
Iron and Beyond
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Eastwood... A Star
All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger
Blood Work
Heart of the Festival
Sergio Leone - C'era una volta il sogno americano
The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
Dirty Harry: The Original
Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'
The Beguiled, Misty, Don & Clint
Kurosawa
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Space Cowboys
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
The Early Show
Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
True Crime
Forever Hollywood
The Directors
Junket Whore
Parkinson
Eastwood on Eastwood
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall
Absolute Power
The Daily Show
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Bridges of Madison County
Casper
One Hundred and One Nights
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
Inside the Actors Studio
Don't Pave Main Street: Carmel's Heritage
A Century of Cinema
A Perfect World
In the Line of Fire
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Unforgiven
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
The Rookie
Stars 90
White Hunter, Black Heart
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
Pink Cadillac
The Dead Pool
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Heartbreak Ridge
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
American Masters
Pale Rider
City Heat
Tightrope
Goldene Kamera
Sudden Impact
Honkytonk Man
Firefox
Na sowas!
Champs-Elysées
Clint Eastwood: Director
Any Which Way You Can
Bronco Billy
Don Siegel: Last of the Independents
Escape from Alcatraz
The Kennedy Center Honors
Every Which Way but Loose
The South Bank Show
Ciné regards
The Gauntlet
Please Turn the Page
The Man with No Name
The Enforcer
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Eastwood In Action
Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films
The Eiger Sanction
Spécial cinéma
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Flick Flack
Magnum Force
The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today
Breezy
High Plains Drifter
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Joe Kidd
Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry's Way
Film '72
Play Misty for Me
Directed by John Ford
The Beguiled: The Storyteller
Great Performances
The Beguiled
Kelly's Heroes
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Paint Your Wagon
No Name City
Where Eagles Dare
On Location: Where Eagles Dare
Coogan's Bluff
Hang 'em High
The Movie Orgy
The Witches
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Magnificent Stranger
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
The Danny Kaye Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Merv Griffin Show
The Mike Douglas Show
Mister Ed
Disneyland '59
Rawhide
Ambush at Cimarron Pass
Lafayette Escadrille
Escapade in Japan
Maverick
West Point
Away All Boats
The First Traveling Saleslady
Star in the Dust
Never Say Goodbye
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Tarantula
Highway Patrol
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Navy Log
Francis in the Navy
Allen in Movieland
Revenge of the Creature
The Oscars
Today
Golden Globe Awards
Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell