Name: Clint Eastwood

Birth Name: Clinton Eastwood Jr.

Birthdate: May 31, 1930

Birthplace: San Francisco

The Man With No Name but with two facial expressions (grim and grimmer) started out a B-movie actor who became an A-list superstar with his TV role on Rawhide, the spaghetti westerns he did with Sergio Leone in the 1960s and the Dirty Harry movies of the '70s and '80s. Though he continued to act mainly in cop and cowboy flicks, he expanded his career to move behind the camera, directing some of his most popular movies: Play Misty for Me, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven. With a career spanning four decades, Eastwood became one of film's most prolific, versatile artists, an idol of both fans and those hoping to make their own careers in the industry. Always tight-lipped and low-key, he retired as an actor without telling anyone sometime before making Million Dollar Baby: "I was in retirement," he told director Paul Haggis as his reason for refusing a role in a Haggis film. "I came out of it to do Million Dollar Baby. I don't think I can go out better, do you?" However, he continues to direct.


1. John Wayne wrote him a letter chewing him out for his take on settlers and pioneers in High Plains Drifter, which remains one of the actor-director's favorite films.
2. He has called himself a Libertarian.
3. His name is an anagram for "old west action."
4. Eastwood was slated to play villain Two-Face in the Batman series until it was canceled in 1966.
5. He once earned a living playing honky-tonk piano and is such a devoted jazz buff that he launched his own label, Malpaso Records.


"A lot of times, people are disappointed when I don't act like the characters I play. They're disappointed when I don't come at them with 'Make my day!'"
— USA Today, Jan. 25, 2004


Wives: Dina Ruiz, TV news anchor; married March 31, 1996; Maggie Johnson; married December 1953; divorced
Daughters: Morgan, born 1996 (mother: Ruiz); Francesca, born 1993, and Kathryn, born 1998 (mother: girlfriend Frances Fisher); Heather, born 1988 (mother: girlfriend Jacely Reeves); Alison, born 1972 (mother: Johnson); Kimber, born 1964 (mother: girlfriend Roxanne Tunis)
Sons: Kyle, born 1968 (mother: Johnson); Scott, born 1968 (mother: Reeves)
Granddaughter: Graylen, born 1994 (father: Kyle)
Grandson: Clinton, born 1984 (mother: Kimber)

2007: Academy Award nomination: Best Director, Letters From Iwo Jima

2005: Academy Award: Best Director, Million Dollar Baby; Academy Award nomination: Best Actor, Million Dollar Baby; Golden Globe: Best Director, Million Dollar Baby; Golden Globe nomination: Best Score, Million Dollar Baby

2004: Academy Award nomination: Best Director, Mystic River; Academy Award nomination: Best Picture, Mystic River; Golden Globe nomination: Best Director, Mystic River

1993: Academy Award: Best Director, Unforgiven; Academy Award: Best Picture, Unforgiven; Academy Award nomination: Best Actor, Unforgiven; Golden Globe: Best Director, Unforgiven

1989: Golden Globe: Best Director, Bird

1971: Golden Globe: World Film Favorite — Male

 

FILMS

Grace Is Gone - (2007) - Composer
Letters From Iwo Jima - (2006) - Composer, Director
Flags of Our Fathers - (2006) - Director
Million Dollar Baby - (2004) - Actor, Director, Producer, Composer
Mystic River - (2003) - Director, Producer, Music
Blood Work - (2002) - Actor, Director, Producer
Space Cowboys - (2000) - Director, Actor, Producer
True Crime - (1999) - Producer
Man with No Name Trilogy, The - Gift Set - (1999) - Actor
Hollywood Animal Stars Box Set - (1999) - Featured
Wild Animal Stars - (1999) - Featured
True Crime - (1999) - Director, Actor
Absolute Power - (1997) - Actor, Director, Producer, Composer
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - (1997) - Director, Producer
The Bridges of Madison County - (1995) - Director, Actor, Producer
In the Line of Fire - (1993) - Actor
A Perfect World - (1993) - Director, Actor
Unforgiven - (1992) - Director, Actor, Producer
White Hunter, Black Heart - (1990) - Director, Actor
The Rookie - (1990) - Actor, Director
Pink Cadillac - (1989) - Actor
Bird - (1988) - Director
The Dead Pool - (1988) - Actor
Wild West - (1987) - Actor
Heartbreak Ridge - (1986) - Director, Actor
Pale Rider - (1985) - Director, Actor
City Heat - (1984) - Actor
Tightrope - (1984) - Actor
Sudden Impact - (1983) - Director, Actor
Firefox - (1982) - Director, Actor
Honkytonk Man - (1982) - Director, Actor
Bronco Billy - (1980) - Director, Actor
Any Which Way You Can - (1980) - Actor
Escape From Alcatraz - (1979) - Actor
Every Which Way but Loose - (1978) - Actor
The Gauntlet - (1977) - Director, Actor
The Outlaw Josey Wales - (1976) - Director, Actor
The Enforcer - (1976) - Actor
The Eiger Sanction - (1975) - Director, Actor
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - (1974) - Actor
High Plains Drifter - (1973) - Director, Actor
Breezy - (1973) - Director
Magnum Force - (1973) - Actor
Joe Kidd - (1972) - Actor
The Beguiled - (1971) - Actor
Dirty Harry - (1971) - Actor
Play Misty for Me - (1971) - Director, Actor
Kelly's Heroes - (1970) - Actor
Paint Your Wagon - (1969) - Actor
Two Mules for Sister Sara - (1969) - Actor
Coogan's Bluff - (1968) - Actor
Hang 'em High - (1968) - Actor
Where Eagles Dare - (1968) - Actor
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - (1966) - Actor
For a Few Dollars More - (1965) - Actor
A Fistful of Dollars - (1964) - Actor
Maverick - Duel at Sundown - (1959) - Actor
Rawhide - Premiere Episode - (1959) - Actor
Rawhide - The Collector's Edition - (1959) - Actor
Rawhide - V. 2 - (1959) - Actor
Lafayette Escadrille - (1958) - Actor
Escapade in Japan - (1957) - Actor
Tarantula - (1955) - Actor
Lady Godiva - (1955) - Actor
Francis in the Navy - (1955) - Actor
Revenge of the Creature - (1955) - Actor