Clint Eastwood

Biography: Academy Award-winning producer/director. Oscar-nominated actor. Movie composer. Elected politician. Father of seven. After starting out as an uncredited bit player in '50s B-movies (Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula), the multitasking entertainment icon first came to fame in small-screen Westerns, notably Rawhide as the well-named trail boss Rowdy Yates. During his tenure on the series, he starred in A Fistful of Dollars, the first of a trilogy of '60s spaghetti Westerns directed by Italian auteur Sergio Leone. As the quiet but deadly Man with No Name in the aforementioned Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Eastwood found international fame. Clad in a black hat and ragged poncho, and locked in a frozen grimace, he was the ideal antihero for a tumultuous era. He continued to favor the genre stateside, appearing in a string of Westerns, including Coogan's Bluff, directed by frequent collaborator Don Siegel. 1971 was a career-changing year forAcademy Award-winning producer/director. Oscar-nominated actor. Movie composer. Elected politician. Father of seven. After starting out as an uncredited bit player in '50s B-movies (Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula), the multitasking entertainment icon first came to fame in small-screen Westerns, notably Rawhide as the well-named trail boss Rowdy Yates. During his tenure on the series, he starred in A Fistful of Dollars, the first of a trilogy of '60s spaghetti Westerns directed by Italian auteur Sergio Leone. As the quiet but deadly Man with No Name in the aforementioned Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Eastwood found international fame. Clad in a black hat and ragged poncho, and locked in a frozen grimace, he was the ideal antihero for a tumultuous era. He continued to favor the genre stateside, appearing in a string of Westerns, including Coogan's Bluff, directed by frequent collaborator Don Siegel. 1971 was a career-changing year for Eastwood. He made his feature-film directorial debut with Play Misty for Me, a taut thriller starring Eastwood as a deejay stalked by a fan. In addition, he created his second seminal role, the title character in Siegel's Dirty Harry, a renegade San Francisco cop out to stop a serial killer and any other criminals unlucky enough to cross his path. During the '70s and '80s, Eastwood played Dirty Harry three more times and continued to headline Westerns, many of which he directed (High Plains Drifter; The Outlaw Josey Wales, opposite longtime love Sondra Locke). He even added comedies to his résumé (Every Which Way But Loose, costarring Locke and an orangutan) proving that his popularity crossed all genres. In the '80s, Eastwood kept up his breakneck pace, adding politics to his list of accomplishments when he was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. In 1988, Eastwood bid adieu to Dirty Harry in the franchise's final installment The Dead Pool. That same year Eastwood was nominated for a Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival for helming Bird, the harrowing biopic of jazz great/heroin addict Charlie Parker. Although Eastwood continued to star in a number of films, the actor became increasingly recognizable for his talents behind the camera. At age 62, he earned his first-ever Oscar nominations, as the producer, director and star of the bleak 1992 revisionist Western Unforgiven (opposite then-girlfriend Frances Fisher), and took home statuettes for best director and best film. Eleven years later, after a string of commercially successful movies, including the romance The Bridges of Madison County and the actioner In the Line of Fire, Eastwood garnered two more Academy Award nods as director and producer of the bloody 2003 morality tale Mystic River. The next year, at age 74, the septuagenarian became the oldest Best Director Oscar winner for Million Dollar Baby. Following his Oscar win, Eastwood directed and/or starred in a number of successful films, including Gran Torino (2008) and Invictus (2010). Expand

Clint Eastwood's Scores

Average career score: 61
Highest Metascore: 65 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Season 1
Lowest Metascore: 56 Amazing Stories: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Negative: 0 out of 2
2 tv reviews
Title: Year: Credit: User score:
tbd Jimmy Kimmel Live: Season 16 Jan 2, 2018 Guest tbd
tbd The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Season 3 Sep 21, 2015 Guest tbd
65 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Season 1 Feb 18, 2014 Guest 6.3
tbd The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Season 10 Sep 10, 2012 Guest tbd
tbd The Daily Show: Season 17 Oct 3, 2011 Guest 9.2
tbd Independent Lens: Season 12 Oct 19, 2010 Appearing tbd
tbd The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Season 8 Sep 13, 2010 Guest tbd
tbd Jimmy Kimmel Live: Season 8 Jan 6, 2010 Clint Eastwood tbd
tbd The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Season 7 Sep 8, 2009 Guest tbd
tbd The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Season 6 Sep 8, 2008 Guest 7.8
tbd The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Season 15 Sep 18, 2006 Guest tbd
tbd The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Season 13 Sep 20, 2004 Guest tbd
tbd The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Season 12 Sep 2, 2003 Guest tbd
tbd The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Season 10 Sep 24, 2001 Guest tbd
tbd The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Season 8 Sep 20, 1999 Guest tbd
56 Amazing Stories: Season 1 Sep 29, 1985 Director tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 8 Sep 14, 1965 Rowdy Yates / Rowdy Yates (1959 - 1966) / Rowdy Yates tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 7 Sep 25, 1964 Rowdy Yates / Rowdy Yates (1959 - 1966) / Rowdy Yates tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 6 Sep 26, 1963 Rowdy Yates (1959 - 1966) / Rowdy Yates tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 5 Sep 28, 1962 Rowdy Yates / Rowdy Yates (1959 - 1966) / Rowdy Yates tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 4 Sep 29, 1961 Rowdy Yates / Rowdy Yates tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 3 Sep 30, 1960 Rowdy Yates / Rowdy Yates (1959 - 1966) / Rowdy Yates tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 2 Sep 18, 1959 Rowdy Yates / Rowdy Yates tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 1 Jan 9, 1959 Rowdy Yates (1959 - 1966) / Rowdy Yates tbd

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