Clint Eastwood A Small Bio

Clint Eastwood´s career has being known over the last 50 years. He is especially known for his action films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He is especially known for his roles in Sergio Leone´s films, that we call spaghetti westerns such as A Fistful of Dollars from 1964, For a Few Dollars More from 1965 and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from 1966. He is also well known for his role as Inspector Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films, Dirty Harry from 1971, Magnum Force from 1973, The Enforcer from 1976 and Sudden Impact from 1983.

For his work Clint has achieved many awards like Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Favorite All-Time Motion Picture Star, Screen Actors Guild Award and much more. Among the films he has being awarded or get nominated for are The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Mystic River (2003), Unforgiven (1992), Changeling (2008) and much more.

Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, California. His father was Clinton Eastwood and his mother Margaret Eastwood. His father was a steelworker and his mother worked in a factory, the family often moved from one
place to another since his father worked at a variety of jobs along the West Coast. When Clint was a teenager he graduated from Oakland Technical High School in Piedmont, California in the year 1949.

At the age 18 or 19 he worked in a variety jobs such as a fireman, a gas station attendant and other. Clint Eastwood is a musician and plays piano and as a young man he sometimes played at a club in Oakland. Clint joined the army in 1950, during the Korean War. He had an accident at that time since he was aboard a military flight that crashed; it was north of San Francisco a place called Drake's Bay in the Pacific Ocean. He escaped serious injured and therefore he did not join his unit when they went to Korea serving their country. During his stay in the army he met Martin Milner and David Janssen, but they like Clint became actors as well later on.

By: Kristjan Sigurjonsson

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