Perhaps the icon of macho movie stars, Clint Eastwood has become a standard in international cinema. Born in San Francisco, he is the son of Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a factory worker, and Ruth Wood (née Runner). The family frequently moved around Northern California when Clint was growing up before settling in Oregon...See full bio »
2005The 77th Annual Academy Awards
(TV special)
Himself - Winner: Best Picture, Best Director & Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role
(also archive footage)
[on John Wayne] I gave him a piece of material that I thought had potential for us to do as a younger guy and an older guy. He wrote me back critical of it. He had seen
High Plains Drifter, and he didn't think that represented Americana like
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and other John Ford westerns. I never answered him.
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Trivia:
Met John Wayne for the first time at the Republican National Convention. [1968]
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Trademark:
His films often deal with the gap between the truth and the mythologized version of the truth (White Hunter Black Heart, Unforgiven, Flags of our Fathers)
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