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Born in San Francisco, the son of a steel worker, Eastwood started a business related degree at Los Angeles College , but dropped out. Before acting, he was a member of the United States Army. He began work as an actor, appearing in such B-films as Tarantula , and Francis in the Navy . In 1959 he got his first breakthrough with the long-running Television series, Rawhide. As Rowdy Yates, he made the show his own and became a household name around the country. But Eastwood found even bigger and better things with Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) in 1964Events January January 1 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. January 3 Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President. January 5 In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Ort, and soon followed it with For a Few Dollars MoreFor a Few Dollars More Per qualche dollaro in piu is a 1965 film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. German actor Klaus Kinski has a supporting role. The film was released in the United States in 1966 as part of the Leo (Per qualche dollaro in più) ( 19651965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). Events January-February January 4 United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his " Great Society" during his State of the Union address. January 14 Prime Ministers of N). In the third "Dollars" film, he found one of his trademark roles, in The Good, the Bad and the UglyThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo is a 1966 " Spaghetti Western" film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood (the Good), Lee van Cleef (the Bad), and Eli Wallach (the Ugly). The film is set in 1862 during CSA Gen (Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo) ( 1966Events January January 1 In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 Strike of public transportation workers in New York City ends January 13 January 3 First Acid Test at the Fil). The movie was a big hit and he became an instant international star. As the mysterious "man with no name", Eastwood really redefined the traditional image of the American cowboy.

Stardom brought more roles, though still in the 'tough guy' mold. In Where Eagles DareWhere Eagles Dare Movie Facts Produced 1968, by Winkast Released by MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Certification UK: PG / USA: PG / Sweden: 15 yoa Parental rating Cautionary, some scenes objectionable Color or b/w Color Language English Runtime USA: 148 min / ( 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the) he had second billing to Richard Burton but was paid $800,000 (rather more than a fistful). However he also began to branch out. Paint Your Wagon ( 1969) was still a Western, but a musical. Kelly's Heroes ( 1970) combined tough guy action with offbeat humor. His talents proved equal to all these tasks. 1971 proved to be one of his best years in films. He starred in the thriller Play Misty for Me (1971), and The Beguiled (1971). But it was his role that year as the hard edged police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry that gave Eastwood one of his most memorable roles. The film has been credited with inventing the 'loose-cannon cop genre' that has been imitated even to this day. Many have said that Eastwood's portrayal of the tough, no-nonsense cop touched a nerve with many who were just plain fed up with crime in the streets.

Eastwood continued to take cop, western and thriller roles, including sequels to Dirty Harry: Magnum Force ( 1973), The Enforcer ( 1976), Sudden Impact ( 1983), and The Dead Pool ( 1988). The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) was an important contribution to the western genre. As the late seventies approached he found more solid work in comedies like Every Which Way But Loose ( 1978). However his career appeared to be on the wane.

It was the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact ( 1983) that made Eastwood a viable star for the eighties. President Reagan even used his famous "make my day" line in one of his speeches. But the passing of time made it harder for him to be a believable tough guy. He did make his fifth and final Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool ( 1988). Although it was a success overall it did not have the box office punch his previous films had. After much less successful films like Pink Cadillac ( 1989), and The Rookie ( 1990), it was fairly obvious Eastwood's star was declining as it never had before. He then started taking on more personal projects such as directing Bird ( 1988), a biopic of Charlie 'Bird' Parker , and starring in and directing White Hunter, Black Heart ( 1990), an uneven, loose biography of John Huston.

But Eastwood rose surprisingly to stardom yet again in the 1990s. He starred in and directed the gritty, cynical western, Unforgiven in 1992, taking on the role of an aging ex- gunfighter, long past his prime. The film was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Actor for Eastwood, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. The following year, Eastwood gave a fine performance as a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the thriller In The Line Of Fire . He expanded his repertoire again with the love story, The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995), and took on more work as director, much of it well received, including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ( 1997) and Mystic River ( 2003).

Despite the critical acclaim he has received for Oscar-winning epics in the latter part of his career, Eastwood remains the quintessential cowboy with mannerisms to match in all his movies. With a drawl most people call 'Western', he is cool, conceited and distant on screen. With his towering personality in literal and virtual terms, he is probably the only American actor who looks 'lonely in a crowd'.

Eastwood received Kennedy Center Honors in 2000.

Eastwood, who has been married twice, has four other daughters and two sons by five different women: Kimberly, 40, with actress Roxanne Tunis; and Kyle , 36, and Alison 32, with his ex-wife Maggie Johnson. His older son Lesly, born 02/13/1959 to Rosina Mary Glen (DOB,09/01/1940), Adopted after six months in a Salvation Army Home for young unmarried mothers. He has a eleven-year-old daughter Francesca with Frances Fisher, his co-star in Unforgiven, and seven year old Morgan with his new wife Dina Ruiz. He also has an older son Lesly, now 45, to Rosina Mary Glen, who was adopted after six months in a Salvation Army Home for young unmarried mothers.

"I like to joke that since my children weren't giving me any grandchildren, I had two of my own. It's a terrific feeling being a dad again at my age. I am very fortunate. I realize how unfair a thing it is that men can have children at a much older age than women."