CLINT EASTWOOD 

Owner:  Property of the Artist / Medium: Pencil and Colored Pencil on heavy, acid free paper / Year: 2005 / © Copyright: Mark Raats

Born in San Francisco as the son of a steel worker, Eastwood did a stint in the United States Army before moving to Los Angeles to study at Los Angeles

College. He began work as an actor and in 1959 he got his first breakthrough with the long-running Television series, Rawhide. Eastwood moved on to work

with Sergio Leone's on A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) in 1964, and soon followed it with For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più).

In these and his third film with Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo) (1966) he found one of his trademark roles, the mysterious

"man with no name". All three films were hits, particularly the third, and Eastwood became an instant international star, redefining the traditional image of the

American cowboy. In 1971 Eastwood created a new character in police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry that gave Eastwood one of his most memorable

roles. in 1992 Eastwood starred in and directed, Unforgiven. The film was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Actor for Eastwood, and won four,

including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. Eastwood developed directing as a second career, and has, indeed, generally received greater

critical acclaim for his directing than for his acting. Over the years, he has developed relationships with many other filmmakers, working over and over with

the same crew, production designers, cinematographers and editors. Similarly, he has a very long term relationship to the Warner Bros. Eastwood,

an accomplished musician also writes the music soundtrack for some of his films.

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