He started lifting weights at 19, when weight training and bodybuilding were relegated to back-alley sweatshops with black-iron plates. [69][70] Eastwood was not especially happy with his character; Eastwood was almost 30, and Rowdy was too young and cloddish for Eastwood's comfort. For years I bummed around trying to get an acting job. If you think it's going to rain, it will. Production and filming were marred by internal disagreements between Eastwood and long-time friend and producer Fritz Manes, as well as between Eastwood and the United States Department of Defense who expressed contempt for the film. [202] Eastwood received two Golden Globes for the film, the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his lifelong contribution, and the Best Director award. One time, he had 13 snakes. And then sometimes, they miss what you think you've been explaining so simply. [99] Jennings Lang arranged for Eastwood to meet Don Siegel, a Universal contract director who later became Eastwood's close friend, forming a partnership that would last more than ten years and produce five films. When I used to be a contract player in 1954 at Universal, I wasn't getting good roles. About 6'1" would be a more reasonable estimate. Though only a secondary player for the first seven seasons, Clint was promoted to series star when Fleming departed--both literally and figuratively--in its final year, along the way becoming a recognizable face to television viewers around the country.Eastwood's big-screen breakthrough came as The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's trilogy of excellent spaghetti westerns: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). The hero who kisses old ladies and dogs and was kind to everybody. Most celebrities issue a press release when they get married or divorced, break up with their significant other, or become a parent. The character Shane Gooseman ("Goose" for short) from the animated space opera, A guest speaker at the 2012 Republican National Convention, Eastwood spent much of his speech time on a largely improvised routine addressing an empty chair representing President. My dad was always talking about retiring and sitting next to a stream with a couple of beers in his hand. "[352], Eastwood has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and practices healthful eating habits. Clint is a true artist in every respect. The reason I became a Republican is because [. Clint is fond of music genres such as jazz (particularly bebop), blues, classic rhythm, classical, and country music. Not everyone makes something phenomenal, but at least you can fail on your own terms. That's because I took up lumber jacking and being a swimming instructor instead of playing chess and watching birds. just a little . . A former logger, steel furnace stoker and gas station attendant before becoming an actor. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film marked the highest point of Eastwood's directing career,[219] and the film has since been cited as one of his most underrated directorial achievements.[220][221]. Very cold water. [180], Eastwood directed and starred in the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact, which was shot in the spring and summer of 1983 and released that December. Like Robin Hood. Set in the 1960s,[218] Eastwood plays a Texas Ranger in pursuit of an escaped convict (Costner) who hits the road with a young boy (T.J. 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In an unpublicized affair, Eastwood sired two legally fatherless[41][315][316][317] children, Scott (born 1986) and Kathryn (born 1988) with Jacelyn Reeves, a flight attendant. At some point you have to say: "This is who I am.". In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. I wasn't always the good guy I could have been. [April 1986], Was apparently such an organized director that he finished, In 1951 and 1952, he was a lifeguard and projectionist of training films for the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Ord in Marina, California. Cited as America's Favorite Movie Star by the Harris Polls conducted in 1993, 1994 and 1997. As soon as I read that line in the script, "Go ahead make my day", I knew audiences would love it. Biographer Patrick McGilligan notes that high school graduation records are a matter of strict legal confidentiality. Grandchildren: Lowell Thomas Murray IV (born circa November 1982) and Kelsey Hayford (born April 17, 1984) via secret daughter Laurie Warren and her husband, Lowell Thomas Murray III. Too many directors don't know what the hell they're doing. [50][51] Using a life raft, he and the pilot swam 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) to safety. Maybe that's why I became an actor. Pages 294-302. [117] The film received mostly a positive reception and its anti-war sentiments were recognized. [37][38] Contrary to what Eastwood has indicated in media interviews, they did not move between 1940 and 1949. And between screen appearances, Clint chalked up a long and impressive list of credits behind the camera. [c] Eastwood continued having affairs while married to Johnson, including a 1959 to 1973 liaison with stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis that produced a daughter, Kimber (born 1964). The line "Go ahead, make my day" (uttered by Eastwood during an early scene in a coffee shop) has been cited as one of cinema's immortal lines. I am concerned about violence in films. . Why not?! And once you've got it, once you feel it, you can't second-guess yourself. (He calls them "little dollies," "squirts," "spinners," "shrimps" or "hip pocket rockets.") It's something we had to fight for and believe in. I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I'm committed to it for life. People have lost their sense of humor. Next up was a love story, The Bridges of Madison County (1995), where Clint surprised audiences with a sensitive performance alongside none other than Meryl Streep. . "[230] The film was a box office failure, earning less than half its $55 million budget and was Eastwood's worst-performing film of the 1990s aside from White Hunter Black Heart, which had a limited release. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist. Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. As the last film racked up phenomenal grosses, Eastwood, 37, rose from television nonentity to sought-after box office attraction in just a matter of months. "Macho" was a fashionable word in the 1980s. Father was Clinton Eastwood Sr. (1906-1970), an executive at Georgia Pacific LLC, a pulp and paper manufacturing company. He directed Mystic River (2003) (in which Sean Penn and Tim Robbins gave Oscar-winning performances), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) (nominated for the Best Picture Oscar), Changeling (2008) (a vehicle for screen megastar Angelina Jolie), Invictus (2009) (again with Freeman), Hereafter (2010), J. Edgar (2011), Jersey Boys (2014), American Sniper (2014) (2014's top box office champ), Sully (2016) (starring Tom Hanks as hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger) and The 15:17 to Paris (2018). [160] Upon release in the summer of 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales was widely acclaimed, with many critics and viewers seeing Eastwood's role as an iconic one that related to America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War. 196–97 (interviewer Peter Biskind), Kapsis and Coblentz, p. 65 (interviewer Ric Gentry), Kapsis and Coblentz, p. 173 (interviewer Denise Abbott), Kapsis and Coblentz, pp. I'm in the entertainment business, NOT in the business of trying to shape social opinions. Presented the Golden Globe Award for Best Director to. [on misrepresentation of his early work] My parts ranged from one-liners to four-liners, but to look at some of the billings in TV Guide these days, you'd think I co-starred in those films. I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life. The plot follows a mysterious stranger (Eastwood) who arrives in a brooding Western town where the people hire him to protect them against three soon-to-be-released felons. [255] Gran Torino eventually grossed over $268 million in theaters worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of Eastwood's career so far (without adjustment for inflation). I think California has always had a mandatory waiting period, so we were never concerned about it like the rest of the country. But in filming these two movies about Iwo Jima, I learnt about war and about character. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. [72] It took just three weeks for Rawhide to reach the top 20 in TV ratings and although it never won an Emmy, it was a major success for several years, and peaked at number six in the ratings between October 1960 and April 1961. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive. President of jury at the Cannes Film Festival. [on surviving a plane crash in the early 1950s] They had one plane, a Douglas AD, sort of a torpedo bomber of the World War II vintage, and I thought I'd hitch on that. [on marriage] I haven't exactly been successful at it, but I made a couple of attempts. [138] He next starred in the loner Western Joe Kidd (1972), based on a character inspired by Reies Lopez Tijerina, who stormed a courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico in June 1967. It was just the kind of character I had envisioned for a long time, keep to the mystery and allude to what happened in the past. It looked pretty good; it was photographed well, but I thought, "If that's acting, I'm in trouble". Actually, he'd been a lifeguard at Fort Ord in northern California for his entire stint in the military," said Eastwood's former longtime companion Sondra Locke. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. You do it the best way you know how, and you hope, of course, that somebody likes it. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. [129] His lines (quoted above) are regarded by firearms historians, such as Garry James and Richard Venola, as the force that catapulted the ownership of .44 Magnum revolvers to new heights in the United States; specifically the Smith & Wesson Model 29 carried by Harry Callahan. I always cry when I watch myself on screen. Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. Longtime spouse-equivalent. Lesly (13th February, 1959), Kimber Lynn (17th June, 1964), Kyle Eastwood (19th May, 1968), Alison Eastwood (22nd May, 1972), Scott Eastwood (21st March, 1986), Kathryn Ann (2nd February, 1988), Francesca Eastwood (7th August, 1993) and Morgan (12th December, 1996). At least, I like to think so. [40], Eastwood held a number of jobs, including lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, and golf caddy. [341], On July 21, 1970, Eastwood's father died of a heart attack at the age of 64. Keep visiting on this website and read your favorite star biography & fitness details. [239] At age 74 Eastwood became the oldest of eighteen directors to have directed two or more Best Picture winners. And the man in the audience is thinking, 'That's how I'd like to handle it--cool and assured, knowing all the answers.' Copyright © 2020 creeto.com. Clint Eastwood and Buddy Ebsen were the same height. The years haven't softened him. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. And an actor, no matter how much in the right he is, can only be the heavy in any such situation. About this time, with outright bombs like Pink Cadillac (1989) and The Rookie (1990), it seemed Eastwood's star was declining as it never had before. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men. I never thought about it. [363] Nevertheless, during the off season of filming Rawhide, Eastwood and Paul Brinegar – sometimes joined by Sheb Wooley – toured rodeos, state fairs, and festivals. In 1992, when I did, Films can go overboard on violence but the Dirty Harry films don't. [373] Eastwood received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1996, and received an honorary degree from AFI in 2009. When you have a certain standing, it isn't easy weeding out the predators. Eastwood portrays a struggling western singer Red Stovall who suffers from tuberculosis, but has finally been given an opportunity to make it big at the Grand Ole Opry. You're as young as you feel. I do the kind of roles I'd like to see if I were digging swimming pools and wanted to escape my problems. Returning to California in 1951, he did a stint at Fort Ord Military Reservation and later enrolled at Los Angeles City College, but dropped out after two semesters to pursue acting. [280] The film received a generally negative reception from critics, who were largely critical of the acting by the three leads. You didn't have to be a varsity athlete to get into a game of pickup basketball or football or to take a bat, ball and glove out to an empty lot for a game of flies-and-grounders. They was blessed with a daughter, Francesca Ruth. The film, shot very quickly and efficiently by Eastwood and Frank Stanley, came in $1 million under budget and was finished three days ahead of schedule. just enough to make things look right. [345][346], He is an avid golfer and owns the Tehàma Golf Club. "[87] Minutes later confusion among the crew over the word "Vaya!" Discover more Celebrity Heights and Vote on how tall you think any Celebrity is! 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One of the most important things in life is feeling good about yourself. Having a good person as a foil certainly helps, because acting is an ensemble art form. Horrigan is a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to save John F. Kennedy's life. I liked doing things when I wanted to do them. There's a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it. Lee Van Cleef returned as a ruthless fortune seeker, with Eli Wallach portraying the Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez. Most of them were Protestant, but I went to other churches because my parents wanted me to try to figure out things for myself. [231], Eastwood directed and starred in Space Cowboys (2000) alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner. He is an investor in the world-renowned Pebble Beach Golf Links west of Carmel and donates his time to charitable causes at major tournaments. [August 2000]. [2019]. The trouble was, the detective had an extremely long list of possible Clint enemies and ex-girlfriends but no real clues as to who might be the culprit. So we went swimming. But who wants to be those guys? He delivered a prime time address at the 2012 Republican National Convention, where he drew attention for a speech he delivered to an empty chair representing President Barack Obama, which he later regretted. Clint also starred in Bronco Billy (1980), Firefox (1982), Tightrope (1984), City Heat (1984), Pale Rider (1985) and Heartbreak Ridge (1986), all of which were solid hits, with Honkytonk Man (1982) being his only commercial failure of the period. He directed 12 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: For two consecutive years he directed two out of the four actors who won Oscars for their performances: Received an honorary Doctorate from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Ebert, in contrast, gave the film three stars and called it "classic Clint Eastwood: fast, furious, and funny. Got the role of Dirty Harry after first choice, His first wife Maggie was born in 1931, although during the 1970s she was wrongly reported as five years younger than that. I was driving around my place in Carmel, and I saw this guy and his girl camping on it. What's one great thing about a theater is it's got an exit. I've done a lot of violent movies, especially in the early days. Only because democracy isn't something that you get overnight. He had hair transplants in the mid-1980s. [160] Roger Ebert compared the nature and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his Man with No Name character in the Dollars westerns and praised the film's atmosphere. He expanded his repertoire by playing opposite Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County (also 1995). Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is OK. Beginning with the thriller Play Misty for Me, Eastwood has directed over 30 films, including Westerns, action films, and dramas. Just do it the best you can. [365] He is also a pianist and composer. And that's okay, I don't heavily quarrel with that, but for me personally, having made films for years and directed for 33 years, it just seems to me that I long for people who want to see a story and see character development. And now are three of us. Although a number of critics praised Eastwood's performance as Dirty Harry, such as Jay Cocks who described him as "giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character,"[133] the film was also widely criticized as being fascistic. He also was graduated from airplane shop. I wanted to play it with an economy of words and create this whole feeling through attitude and movement. Set in New Orleans to avoid confusion with the Dirty Harry films,[187] Eastwood played a divorced cop drawn into his target's tortured psychology and fascination for sadomasochism. [53] Glassberg arranged for an audition under Arthur Lubin, who, although very impressed with Eastwood's appearance and stature, then 6'4" (193 cm), disapproved of his acting, remarking, "He was quite amateurish. In June 2008 Unforgiven was ranked as the fourth-best American western, behind Shane, High Noon, and The Searchers, in the American Film Institute's "AFI's 10 Top 10" list. When The Variety Club honored Clint in 1986, hardly anyone in the audience knew him personally. Growing up, I never knew what I wanted to do. It can't be because of looks. At the 64th Golden Globe Awards Eastwood received nominations for Best Director in both films. He has a light brown hair color and grey eye color. [on taking nootropics] You can actually feel a difference and see a difference in yourself. I admire people who can accomplish and do it, but it's very difficult in today's society, because there are so many things pulling at people. Their existence was not publicized until December 2018. A lot of innocent people get sacrificed. [May 2007], An accomplished jazz pianist, he performs much of the music for his movies, including the scene in the bar in, In the late 1980s he discussed remaking the classic. I don't think of myself as a "star." "[375] In October 2009, he was honored by the Lumière Award (in honor of the Lumière Brothers, inventors of the Cinematograph) during the first edition of the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France. They said do you want to be resuscitated for while, and she said 'no.' He was born in San Francisco, California, USA on May 31, 1930. I thought I was an absolute clod. There are certain things you have to be realistic about. [217][90] A few months after film wrapped, Eastwood directed and co-starred alongside Kevin Costner in A Perfect World (also 1993). Is a member of the super-exclusive Bel-Air Country Club. 100 years from now and more, people will look back on this generation of films, and the guy who will standout more than anyone else will be. I was a daydreamer as a kid. A slow bloomer in almost every regard, Clint was going on 19 when he left high school (in an era where some students graduated at 16), got his first big film role at age 34, waited until he turned 38 to start a family (not including illegitimate unmentionables), made his directorial debut at 41, and received his first Oscar nomination when he was nearly 63. [148], Eastwood teamed up with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), a road movie about a veteran bank robber Thunderbolt (Eastwood) and a young con man drifter, Lightfoot (Bridges). [163][164] He also refused the part of a platoon leader in Ted Post's Vietnam War film, Go Tell the Spartans[163] and instead decided to make a third Dirty Harry film, The Enforcer (1976). Plastic surgery used to be a thing where older people would try to go into this dream world of being 28 years old again. I grew up in various little towns and ended up in Oakland, California, going to a trade school. [349][350], In 1973, Eastwood told the film critic Gene Siskel, "No, I don't believe in God. I really don't know what macho is. I guess she was surprised I grew up at all, never mind that I got to where I am. In this film, he portrays a down-and-out cop assigned to escort a prostitute from Las Vegas to Phoenix to testify against the mob. [366] It won the Satellite Award for Best Song at the 12th Satellite Awards. The fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact (1983), was the highest-grossing film of the franchise and spawned his trademark catchphrase: "Make my day." [162], Eastwood was then offered the role of Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, but declined as he did not want to spend weeks on location in the Philippines. 67–68 (interviewer Ric Gentry), Kapsis and Coblentz, p. 91 (interviewer David Thomson), Kapsis and Coblentz, p. 60 (interviewer Ric Gentry), Kapsis and Coblentz, p. 45 (interviewers Richard Thompson and Tim Hunter), Kapsis and Coblentz, p. 71 (interviewer Ric Gentry), Kapsis and Coblentz, p. 143 (interviewer Milan Pavolić), Gene Siskel, "Clint: The Cynical King who Outdrew the Duke,", People's Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, List of awards and nominations received by Clint Eastwood, The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts, List of oldest living Academy Award winners, "Clint Eastwood Net Worth: Tom Hanks May Sign Up for Eastwood's Sully Sullenberger Biopic, How Much Is Western Legend Worth? The only thing she ever said to me, toward the last, she said, 'I want out of here, I am tired.' The best kind of fan is the one who tells you he loved your film and then, boom, is off.
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