Clinton Eastwood Jr. was born on 31st May 1930 in San Francisco, California. He lived in a posh area of Piedmont but was poor in academics and hence was held back in school for multiple times. He could not complete his high school and did multiple jobs, sometimes as a grocery clerk, sometimes a paper carrier or lifeguard and sometimes as a forest firefighter. He enrolled at Seattle University and then drafted to U.S Army during the Korean War. Later on in the 1950s, the Universal invited him to meet the director and after many rejections and years of training in drama classes, he bagged a mini role in the Revenge of the Creature (1955).
Eastwood received two of the France’s highest honors. In 1994, he was awarded with the ‘Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ and in 2007, he received the ‘Legion of Honor’ medal. In 2000, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award (Golden Lion) at the Italian Venice Film Festival.
The stellar list of Clint Eastwood Movies are stated below:
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7. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
One of the best Clint Eastwood movies, the sports drama film was co-produced, written and scored by Clint Eastwood himself. The protagonist was an underappreciated boxer (played by Hillary Swank) who wanted to train another underdog boxer and help her achieve her dreams of becoming a professional boxer. This movie received huge amount of positive feedback from the critics and swept off the box office records. Made on a budget of $30 million, this movie garnered $216.8 million worldwide. The screenplay of this film was based on F.X. Toole’s short stories written by Paul Haggis and it received four Academy awards including the ‘Best Picture’. F.X. Toole’s short stories were published under the title ‘Rope Burns’ but after the huge success of this movie, the books have been published under the movie’s title.
IMDb 8.1 / Release Date: 1995
Trailer / Director: Clint Eastwood
6. Unforgiven (1992)
Written by David Webb Peoples and produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, this is an anti-western classic of theClint Eastwood movies. The film reflected the life of William Munny who was a killer and then left being an outlaw and concentrated on farming. However, after years later, he took up one more job of murdering someone. He dedicated the movie to Sergio Leone and Don Siegel who were the deceased directors. It was the third Western movie to have won the Best Picture at the Academy Awards post Cimarron and Dance with Wolves. The film also won the Academy Awards for Best Director (Clint Eastwood), Best Film Editing (Joel Cox) and Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman). For being culturally, historically and aesthetically significant, the movie was preserved in the National Film Registry of U.S. in 2004. The movie was a humungous success at the Box Office where it earned $159.2 million made against a budget of $14 million.
IMDb 8.2 / Release Date: 1994
Trailer / Director: Clint Eastwood
5. Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Sequel to the above stated film, this action comic film was directed by Buddy Van Horn and starred Eastwood, Sondra Locke and Geoffrey Lewis. The plot revolved around the trucker turned prize fighter who along with his friend and pet orangutan went through a series of misadventures including motorcycle gangs, corrupt cops, pretty dames and crazy mob just to find his lost love. Another commercial success of Clint Eastwood movies, this movie was made on a budget of $15 million but it earned $70.7 million in North America itself. It was the 5th highest grosser of 1980.
IMDb 6.1 / Release Date: 1974
Trailer / Director: Buddy Van Horn
4. Every Which Way but Loose (1978)
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Another classic Clint Eastwood movies, it showed Eastwood in an offbeat and uncategorized comic role as Philo Beddoe who was a brawler and a trucker who roamed around the West America with his friend-cum-manager Oliver and his pet orangutan ‘Clyde’, in search of his lost love. In this wandering process, he came across a motorcycle gang and two police offers whom he offended and now they had been looking for him to seek revenge. Eastwood also starred in the sequel of this film ‘Any Which Way You Can’. Both the movies were massive success at the box office but received mixed reviews from the critics. This movie made on a budget of $5 million, earned $104.3 million worldwide. It is considered as one of the top 200 highest grossing movies of all time.
IMDb 6.3 / Release Date: 1996
Trailer / Director: James Fargo
3. Play Misty For Me (1971)
The directorial debut of the Eastwood among all the Clint Eastwood movies, the film starred Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter and Donna Mills. An American Psychological thriller this film exhibited the life of a male disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who had a fling with an obsessed female fan but that fling turned dangerous and deadly with the course of time when another woman entered the picture. Jessica Walter garnered major praises for her outstanding performance and the movie’s score was composed by Dee Barton. The film deserved both critical and financial success and established Eastwood’s career as a director.
IMDb 7.0 / Release Date: 1991
Trailer / Director: Clint Eastwood
2. Dirty Harry (1971, 1973, 1976, 1983 and 1988)
This is a series of Clint Eastwood Movieswhere he played the role of ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan who was a homicide division inspector of the San Francisco Police Department. He was famous for his aggressive and ruthless method of work, extremely violent by nature and a terror for any partner who was assigned to work with him. The first film of the franchise ‘Dirty Harry’ released in 1971, the second one named ‘Magnum Force’ released in 1973. The third installment ‘The Enforcer’ released in 1976 and the fourth named ‘Sudden Impact’ in 1983. In 1988, the final film released named ‘The Dead Pool’. In the 1980s, Warner Books published twelve more books under the title of ‘Dane Hartman’ which took ahead the legacy and adventures of Dirty Harry. All of these novels were translated into French as the ‘Collection Supercops’.
1. Man with No Name (1977)
Clint Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the ‘man with no name’ in the Dollars Trilogy of Spaghetti Western films. Eastwood was unidentified in the movie because of the hat, cowboy boots, iconic poncho and affinity for cigarillos. He was the protagonist and this character of his was considered as the 33rd greatest character by the Empire in 2008 and Eastwood was also honored with American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.
IMDb 8.3 / Release Date: 1977
Trailer / Director: Clint Eastwood
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