Clint Eastwood biography 2022
Biography of Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930, an American actor and director.
Clint Eastwood, via minor supporting roles and i.a., television series Rawhide (1959-66), has become a significant star in gritty action films. At the same time, he has achieved a position as one of the most respected names in American cinema.
He built his reputation and established his type as the taciturn loner, "The Man With No Name," in Sergio Leone's series of three Italian so-called spaghetti westerns, beginning with A Fistful of Dollars(1964) and culminating in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
He then brought the character into a contemporary American setting under director Don Siegel in the cop films Coogan's Bluff (1968) and especially Dirty Harry (1971). The last one was an excellent debate-generating success with its theme of independence and had four sequels.
Clint Eastwood began directing in the 1970s, first the horror Play Misty For Me (1971) and then westerns such as High Plains Drifter (1973).
Since then, he has alternated between commercial action stories and more personal assignments as a director, e.g., the portrait of alto saxophonist Charlie Parker in Bird (1988).
With Unforgiven (1992), Clint Eastwood updated the western genre and analyzed its myths and his own character, which earned him an Oscar for both the film and the direction.
As a director and actor, he nuanced his field of activity with the romantic chamber play The Bridges of Madison County (1995) in collaboration with Meryl Streep,
He achieved great critical success with Mystic River (2003), which deals with themes of trauma and revenge in the crime genre, and the melodramatic boxing story Million Dollar Baby (2004), which again brought home Oscars for directing and cinematography.
This was followed by the double work Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), which examines the World War II Battle of Iwo-Jima from an American and a Japanese perspective.
Since then, Clint Eastwood has continued to direct films with impressive productivity. In 2008, he released Changeling, a psychological drama from Prohibition-era Los Angeles, followed by Gran Torino (2009), which deals with the issue of integration in the clash between an old war veteran, played by Clint Eastwood himself, and a young Korean boy.
The sports drama Invictus, set against the background of the system change in South Africa, came in 2009, followed by Hereafter (2010), which revolves around the influence of death on a series of destinies.
The drama J. Edgar (2011) takes longtime FBI chief J, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. Edgar Hoover was under treatment and tried to paint a portrait of Hoover's contemporaries as well as the person behind his powerful position in American society.
last updated September 2022
