In 2008, Eastwood directed and starred as protagonist Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino. In 2006, he directed the companion war films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, which depict the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspectives of the U.S. In 2004, Eastwood once again won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Director, this time for Million Dollar Baby starting Hilary Swank. For their performances, Penn and Robbins respectively won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, making Mystic River the first film to win both categories since Ben Hur in 1959. In 2003, Eastwood directed an ensemble cast, including Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney, in Mystic River. He received the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his 1992 western Unforgiven. Eastwood also has contributed music to his films, either through performing or composing. In 1985, Eastwood directed Pale Rider, which was the highest-grossing western of the 1980s. In 1979, Eastwood portrayed prisoner Frank Morris in the Don Siegel–directed Escape from Alcatraz.Įastwood's debut as a producer began in 1982 with two films, Firefox and Honkytonk Man. Although it received largely negative reviews, the film was a financial success, his highest-grossing film at that time, and generated a sequel. In 1978, Eastwood starred opposite an orangutan in the action-comedy Every Which Way but Loose. Three years later, he starred as Confederate guerrilla and outlaw Josey Wales in The Outlaw Josey Wales. In 1973, Eastwood starred in another western, High Plains Drifter. The film received critical acclaim, and spawned four more films: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988). Also that year, he starred as San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry. In 1971, Eastwood made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me. Although he appeared in several earlier films, mostly uncredited, his breakout film role was as the Man with No Name in the Sergio Leone–directed Dollars Trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), which weren't released in the United States until 1967/68. Eastwood has acted in multiple television series, including the eight-season series Rawhide (1959–1965). His career has spanned 65 years and began with small uncredited film roles and television appearances. Clint Eastwood is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer.
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