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Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film producer, composer, and Academy Award winning film director. Eastwood is famous for his tough guy/anti-hero roles, including Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry series and the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. Eastwood is regarded by many, as one of the greatest actors of all time. As a director, Eastwood has become known for high-quality dramas imbued with a pessimistic tone, such as Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby.
Early life
Born at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, California to Clinton Eastwood Sr. and Margaret Ruth Runner; the family is of Scottish, Irish, Dutch, and English descent. Eastwood is a descendant of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony Governor, William Bradford. As a child, Eastwood endured the Great Depression, which in turn left its mark on his later films.
Clint Sr., a sometime steel worker in the San Francisco Bay Area, was forced in the 1930s to seek work over a wide area of coastal and inland California. According to film scholar David Kehr, the Eastwoods, with only child Clint Jr., spent much of the decade in motion, an experience that would inform such movies as 1982's Honkytonk Man, with its migrant, "Okie" families. From his working-class childhood and upbringing, Eastwood the artist drew upon a perspective that was often far more archetypically middle-American than those of other California-born actors and directors. When he needed a mid-American backdrop from the 1950s for his 1988 film Bird, Eastwood used the elm-lined streets of central Sacramento, a distinctly un-Hollywood setting which he remembered from living there briefly as a child. That leafy cityscape, with its early 20th century clapboard houses, seems worlds removed from the hilly vistas and intellectual pretentions of the Bay Area and also from the sun-drenched glitz of Los Angeles, where Clint Jr. would live as a young man.
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I think clint eastwood should change his name. Sounds too much like clit
AutumnWishes87 (Autumn Davis) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:47:43 -0000
I think clint eastwood should change his name. Sounds too much like clit
viendo ..Los puentes de Madison.... Adoro cuando Clint Eastwood dice: "No quiero necesitarte...porque no puedo tenerte".
IreneMoss (IRENE TORRICO ) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:38:43 -0000
viendo ..Los puentes de Madison.... Adoro cuando Clint Eastwood dice: "No quiero necesitarte...porque no puedo tenerte".
Clint Eastwood, jedan i jedini... :D Bilo iza ili ispred kamere, rula big tajm.
pojemario (Mario Poje) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:24:20 -0000
Clint Eastwood, jedan i jedini... :D Bilo iza ili ispred kamere, rula big tajm.
Nu pas (yeah i know) film "million dollar baby" gezien met clint eastwood, hillary swank, morgan freeman. Jeuj wat goed! Clint for president
henk038 (henk boshove) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:21:33 -0000
Nu pas (yeah i know) film "million dollar baby" gezien met clint eastwood, hillary swank, morgan freeman. Jeuj wat goed! Clint for president
I've just read a film review: Invictus by Clint Eastwood on Afripop.com and it brought to mind a wonderful film... http://bit.ly/7xMy32
A_Serendipitous (A Serendipitous) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:18:50 -0000
I've just read a film review: Invictus by Clint Eastwood on Afripop.com and it brought to mind a wonderful film... http://bit.ly/7xMy32
@revberaldo E puxa, todo o respeito pelo seu avatar. Clint Eastwood mora no meu coração.
dimmeststar (Karina Audi) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:14:47 -0000
@revberaldo E puxa, todo o respeito pelo seu avatar. Clint Eastwood mora no meu coração.
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