Clint Eastwood
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.
Filmography (67)
Juror #2
Cry Macho
Richard Jewell
The Mule
The 15:17 to Paris
Sully
American Sniper
Jersey Boys
Trouble with the Curve
J. Edgar
Hereafter
Invictus
Gran Torino
Changeling
In the Valley of Elah
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
Million Dollar Baby
Mystic River
Blood Work
Space Cowboys
True Crime
Absolute Power
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Bridges of Madison County
Casper
In the Line of Fire
A Perfect World
Unforgiven
The Rookie
White Hunter, Black Heart
Pink Cadillac
The Dead Pool
Heartbreak Ridge
Pale Rider
Tightrope
City Heat
Sudden Impact
Firefox
Honkytonk Man
Bronco Billy
Any Which Way You Can
Escape from Alcatraz
Every Which Way but Loose
The Gauntlet
The Enforcer
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Eiger Sanction
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
High Plains Drifter
Magnum Force
Joe Kidd
Dirty Harry
Play Misty for Me
The Beguiled
Kelly's Heroes
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Paint Your Wagon
Hang 'em High
Where Eagles Dare
Coogan's Bluff
The Witches
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
Revenge of the Creature
