Born: May 31, 1930 - San Francisco, California, USA
Tall, soft-spoken, leathery leading
man since the 1960s who diversified into directing and producing after
achieving iconic status. Clint Eastwood arose from the world of TV Westerns
to become the number one box-office star in the world, subsequently earning
critical acclaim as a director. His production company, Malpaso, crafts
moderate-budget features that range from the bluntly commercial to the
impressively personal and ambitious. Eastwood is not entirely part of
the Hollywood establishment; his business is run out of Carmel, California,
on the Monterey Peninsula, where he has served as mayor and run a restaurant.
Eastwood grew up in Depression-era California,
where his parents were itinerant workers. After high school, he worked
as a lumberjack in Oregon, played honky-tonk piano and was a swimming
instructor in the US Army. On the GI Bill, he studied at Los Angeles City
College. Signed by Universal, he had his first experience with the indignities
suffered by actors in a "Francis the Talking Mule" movie, FRANCIS
IN THE NAVY (1955). Many B-movies later, he moved to New York and gained
recognition as the trail boss Rowdy Yates in the successful TV series
"Rawhide" (1959-66).
Tight TV schedules and good training helped him
develop the minimalist acting style for which he is famous; it was first
appreciated in Europe, where he starred in a trilogy of spaghetti westerns
directed by Sergio Leone in Spain. Sinewy, laconic and lethal, he embodied
to Europeans the maverick, unpredictably violent American, whose philosophy
in A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964) was "everybody gets rich or dead."
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1966) and THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (1966)
became classic revisionist Westerns and made Eastwood an international
star. He returned stateside and starred in COOGAN'S BLUFF (1968), a smart
urban Western that marked the beginning of his long and successful collaboration
with director Don Siegel.
Eastwood's second famed screen incarnation was
"Dirty" Harry Callahan, the cop of Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY
(1971) who found it easier to shoot suspects than interrogate them. Hence
Harry's immortal line in SUDDEN IMPACT (1983) when a crook threatens him:
"Go ahead make my day," calmly intoned from the responsible
end of a massive handgun. Nonetheless, these films were sufficiently ambiguous
to defy easy ideological categorization. Eastwood has stated, "My
characters are usually calloused men with a sensitive spot for right and
wrong." He has also noted that "My movies add up to a morality,
not a politics."
Eastwood became a fixture of masculine action fare
but he also fared well in several popular comedies, such as EVERY WHICH
WAY BUT LOOSE (1978) and ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN (1980). Though he could
have coasted on his established persona, Eastwood chose to take chances
with his material and subjected his image to thoughtful and not always
flattering scrutiny. His portraits of tormented men with intense inner
lives and little ability to communicate with others found an apogee in
BIRD (1988), his moody, acclaimed portrait of jazz musician Charlie Parker.
Virtual "auteurist" control has enabled him to make unusual
Westerns (HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, 1973; PALE RIDER, 1985) and cop movies
exploring feminist concerns (SUDDEN IMPACT, 1983; TIGHTROPE, 1984).
Eastwood's commercial viability seemed to be in
marked decline by the late 80s. The fifth "Dirty Harry" movie,
THE DEAD POOL (1988), was far less successful than its predecessors. 1990
saw the box-office failures of both THE ROOKIE, a formula cop outing,
and WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART, an interesting, semi-fictional account
of the making of THE AFRICAN QUEEN. Eastwood enjoyed a triumphant popular
and critical rehabilitation, however, with UNFORGIVEN (1992), a Western
that earned him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, as well as
several other major awards. A spellbinding morality tale originally written
by David Webb Peoples in 1976, UNFORGIVEN ironized, as well as paid homage
to, several of Eastwood's earlier gunfighter incarnations. Dedicated to
his directorial mentors, "Sergio" (Leone) and "Don"
(Siegel), the film was a solid commercial hit, grossing over $100 million
over the course of its long run.
Eastwood's next star vehicle, IN THE LINE OF FIRE
(1993), was an immediate blockbuster. Making a popular comeback for German
director Wolfgang Petersen, this satisfying political thriller, which
pitted veteran Secret Service man Clint against a brilliant assassin played
to the hilt by John Malkovich passed the $100 million mark in just a few
months. Eastwood directed his subsequent feature, A PERFECT WORLD (1993),
wherein he portrayed an experienced lawman tracking down a dangerous escaped
convict (Kevin Costner) with a seven year-old hostage/companion.
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