Clint Eastwood

 

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Biography

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood
Never trust anyone on an Italian movie. I know about these things.
Stay away from special effects and explosives.

Movie news:

This week 15 years ago A perfect world premiered (November 24, 1993)

Born:

May 31, 1930

After graduating from high school, Clint worked as a logger, steel-furnace stoker, and gas pumper. He settled in Hollywood in 1955 as a small-time actor, but it was in Italy that he found his fortune. The Sergio Leone dollar trilogy catapulted Eastwood into stardom.

In 1971, Frank Sinatra turned down the part of detective Harry Callahan, in Dirty Harry, and the role was offered to Clint. This was the first of a series of action films in which he played laconic and dangerous heroes.

From the nineties Clint started directing movies (Unforgiven, Mystic river, Million dollar baby) and he gradually won the respect of the critics. Nowadays Clint's ability to craft a compelling film is beginning to eclipse his legendary status as an actor.

Academy awards:

2005 Won Best Director for: Million Dollar Baby (2004)
2005 Won Best Picture for: Million Dollar Baby (2004)
2005 Nominated Best Actor for: Million Dollar Baby (2004)
2004 Nominated Director for: Mystic River (2003)
2004 Nominated Best picture for: Mystic River (2003)
1995 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
1993 Won Oscar Best Director for: Unforgiven (1992)
1993 Won Oscar Best Picture for: Unforgiven (1992)
1993 Nominated Best Actor for: Unforgiven (1992)

Selected Movies:

Books:

Michael Munn -> Clint Eastwood: Hollywood's Loner (1992)
Boris Zmijewsky and Lee Pfeiffer -> The Films of Clint Eastwood (1993)
Richard Schickel -> Clint Eastwood (1996)

 

Clint Eastwood in The good, the bad and the ugly

Rumours and new films

- The Changeling -
The film is about a woman (Angelina Jolie) whose son is abducted but retrieved; she suspects, however, that the returned child is not her kid.

- The Human Factor-
Morgan Freeman will produce and play the lead in a film about Nelson Mandela.

News

New film

This week 15 years ago A perfect world premiered (November 24, 1993)

Trivia

Clint about filming the dollar trilogy: “The unpleasantness of the thin black cigars sometimes put me in the mood for the scène. If I had to be in an unpleasant frame of mind I took a couple of draws and boy, I was right there.” Source / More (Book)

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Eastwood served as mayor of Carmel, California (USA), from 1986 to 1988.

Clint has his handprints set in cement on Hollywood Boulevard (Hollywood, USA, in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater). Source / More (Web)

Eastwood (while filming The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) asked Sergio Leone: “Where are you going to stand when the explosion comes? [The bridge]. If you’ll stand right here, I’ll do the scene”. But Leone didn’t want to be close to the explosion, so Eastwood refused and Leone had to use doubles. Source / More (Book)

Bibliography