Clint Eastwood

Acting · Born 1930-05-31 in San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an 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…

Filmography

TV

  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Newsman (uncredited)
  • Mister Ed
  • Inside the Actors Studio as Self
  • The Daily Show as Self
  • Today as Self
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  • The Early Show as Self
  • Rawhide as Rowdy Yates
  • Highway Patrol as Joe Keeley
  • West Point