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Clint Eastwood
American actor and director (born )
This article is about the American actor. For other uses, see Clint Eastwood (disambiguation).
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, ) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mids and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the s and s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.[4][5] Elected in , Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy Every Which Way but Loose () and its action comedy sequel Any Which Way You Can ().[6] Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns Hang 'Em High (), The Outlaw Josey Wales
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Clint Eastwood got his big break with a starring role on the television program Rawhide. He then became immensely popular bygd portraying tough characters in a string of Sergio Leone movie Westerns and the Dirty Harry franchise. Eastwood has since earned widespread beröm for directing such Academy Award-winning films as Unforgiven, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby.
Early Life and Career
Eastwood was born Clinton Eastwood Jr. on May 31, , to Clinton Sr. and Ruth Eastwood, in San Francisco, California. He has one younger sister, Jeanne. After traveling and looking for work throughout California during the Depression, the family settled in the Bay Area city of Piedmont. Eastwood attended Piedmont High School and then Oakland Technical High School, graduating in
Eastwood worked odd jobs during and after high school, with stints as a hay baler, logger, truck driver and steel-furnace stoker. In , he was drafted into the U.S.
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On April 8, , Clint Eastwood was overwhelmingly elected, with % of the vote, to be the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, or better known as just Carmel, a well known and wealthy community on the Monterey Peninsula in California. As a busy man, he quickly tired of the details he had to be involved in as mayor, and did not run for a second term. One of his best known decisions, during his mayoral tenure, was the repeal of a municipal law that forbade citizens and visitors to eat ice cream on the sidewalks of Carmel.
But Clint Eastwood, or Clinton Eastwood, Jr., his birth name, was a lot more than just mayor of Carmel. He became one of Hollywood’s famous actors, a super star, and he even received more recognition as a film director, later in his career. He was awarded three Golden Globe Awards for Best Director of a film, three Academy Awards for Best Director of a film, the Cecile B. De Mille Award, and the AFI Achievement Award.
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