Clint Eastwood
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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, producer, and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards—including one for Favorite All-Time Motion Picture Star. Eastwood is primarily known for his tough guy, patriotic American, anti-hero acting roles in violent action and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Following his role on the long-running television series Rawhide, he was cast as the Man with No Name in the Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns and as Inspector Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry police dramas. These roles have made him an enduring icon of masculinity. Eastwood is also known for his comedic efforts in Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980), his two highest-grossing films after adjustment for inflation.
For his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director, producer of the Best Picture, and received nominations for Best Actor. These films in particular, as well as others such as Paint Your Wagon (1969), Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), In the Line of Fire (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and Gran Torino (2008) have all received great critical acclaim and commercial success. He has directed many of his films, and has also found success in others in which he has not acted such as Mystic River (2003). He also has an interest in politics, serving as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988, and has also been a critic of disability rights.
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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_eastwood)
Clint Eastwood Tribute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhaFUrb6DHA#lq-lq2-hq)