Happy 88th Birthday Clint Eastwood!!!
Born on May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, California
Thanks for everything, so far...
Legendary American actor and director.
After achieving success in the Western TV series
Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's
Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five
Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.
For his work in the Western film
Unforgiven (1992) and the sports drama
Million Dollar Baby (2004), Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture.
Eastwood's greatest commercial successes have been the adventure comedy
Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and its sequel, the action comedy
Any Which Way You Can (1980), after adjustment for inflation.
Uncredited acting debut, in
Revenge of the Creature 1955 as a lab technician.
The First Traveling Saleslady 1956, with Ginger Rogers
Rawhide 1959 to 1965, 216 episodes as Rowdy Yates
Per un pugno di dollari aka
A Fistful of Dollars 1964
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo aka
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966, with Eli Wallach.
Le streghe aka
The Witches 1966, a five part anthology movie, Clint appears in the last episode "
An Evening Like The Others".
Coogan's Bluff 1968
Where Eagles Dare 1968, with Richard Burton and Mary Ure.
Dirty Harry 1971
Play Misty for Me 1971, that also was Clint's directorial debut.
Breezy 1973, first movie Clint directed but did not act in.
Every Which Way but Loose 1978, with Clyde
Pale Rider 1985
Unforgiven 1992
The Bridges of Madison County 1995, with Maryl Streep
Space Cowboys 2000, with James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland.
Million Dollar Baby 2004, with Hillary Swank
Gran Torino 2008, that didn't become his last acting role as rumoured.
...and offcourse much much much more.
Clint Eastwood has acted in 70 movies and television productions, and has directed 39 movies and television productions, so far.
1965, Clint, Buddy Ebsen and Fess Parker on
The Danny Kaye Show