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My Take
Clint Eastwood is, to me, the great argument for restraint in American filmmaking. The squint that made the Man with No Name iconic matured into a directing style that trusts silence, shoots fast, and cuts everything ornamental, and it won him Best Director and Best Picture twice. What I find most instructive is the longevity: a man born in 1930 who kept walking onto sets past ninety, still curious, still economical. I do not love every film, and his politics invite argument, but the body of work has a stubborn integrity that outlasts trends. He is less a star than a working method, and the method endures.
Overview
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is a retired American actor, filmmaker, and musician. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Clint Eastwood
- Name (Japanese)
- クリント・イーストウッド
- Reading
- くりんと・いーすとうっど
- Born
- May 31, 1930 (age 96)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Horse
- Origin
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film producer / film actor / film director / restaurateur / composer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Oakland Technical High School
- University
- Los Angeles City College
Awards & achievements
- 2007 Commander of the Legion of Honour
- 1994 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- 2010 National Medal of Arts
- Directors Guild of America Award
- 1993 Academy Award for Best Director
- 2005 Academy Award for Best Director
- 1993 Academy Award for Best Picture
- 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.