Clint Eastwood's acting debut was an uncredited bit part as a laboratory assistant in the 1955 film '' Revenge of the Creature''
Over the next three years, he had uncredited bit parts in several other films
Clint Eastwood finally received his break in the role of Rowdy Yates for the CBS hour-long western series Rawhide in the summer of 1958
Rawhide premiered in January 1959 and after its release took only three weeks to reach the top 20 in the TV ratings
Although the series never won an Emmy, it was a considerable success for several years, reaching its peak at number six in the ratings between October 1960 and April 1961
In 1959, he made a guest appearance on '' Maverick '', opposite James Garner, as a cowardly villain intent on marrying a rich girl for money
The film '' A Fistful of Dollars''(1963)s success made Eastwood a major star in Italy
Clint Eastwood was re-hired to star in '' For a Few Dollars More''(1965), the second of the trilogy and the final film of the trilogy ''The Good,Bad and the Ugly''
The Dollars trilogy was not released in the United States until 1967, when A Fistful of Dollars opened in January, followed by For a Few Dollars More in May, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on December 29, 1967
All the films were commercially successful, particularly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which eventually earned $8 million (56.6 million in 2015 dollars) in rental earnings and turned Eastwood into a major film star
Clint Eastwood advisor Irving Leonard helped establish Clint Eastwood's own production company, Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwood's property in Monterey County,California
Irving Leonard arranged for Hang 'Em High to be a joint production with United Artists; when it opened in July 1968, it had the largest opening weekend in United Artists' history. Hang 'Em High was widely praised by critics
Before the release of Hang 'Em High, Clint Eastwood had already begun working on '' Coogan's Bluff''
The film Coogan's Bluff became the first collaboration with Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin, who would later compose the jazzy score to several Eastwood films in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Dirty Harry films
Clint Eastwood acted in '' Where Eagles Dare(1968)about a World War II squad parachuting into a Gestapo stronghold in the alpine mountains alongwith Richard Burton who played the squad's commander, with Clint Eastwood as his right-hand man.
In 1968 Clint Eastwood endorsed Richard Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.
Clint Eastwood acted in his only musical of his career ''Paint Your Wagon''(1969)
In 1970 Clint Eastwood acted in '' Two Mules For Sister Sara''.Although it received moderate reviews, the film is listed in The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
In 1970 Clint Eastwood starred as one of a group of Americans who steal a fortune in gold from the Nazis in the World War II film '' Kelly's Heroes''which was the last film in which Clint Eastwood appeared, that was not produced by his own Malpaso Productions
Clint Eastwood's career reached a turning point in 1971 - Clint Eastwood's maiden Directorial Film ''Play Misty For Me'' was highly acclaimed with critics
Beginning with ''Play Misty For Me''Clint Eastwood has directed over 30 films
Clint Eastwood Eastwood is one of only two people to have been twice nominated for Best Actor and Best Director for the same film (Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby) - the other being Warren Beatty(Heaven Can Wait and Reds)
Also along with Warren Beatty,Robert Redford,Richard Attenborough,Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson Clint Eastwood is one of the few directors best known as an actor to win an Academy Award for directing
In 2004 Clint Eastwood aged 74 was the oldest to date recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director for the film '' Million Dollar Baby''
Clint Eastwood Eastwood has directed five actors in Academy Award–winning performances -
Gene Hackman in Unforgiven
Tim Robbins and Sean Penn in Mystic River and
Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood has contributed to over 50 films over his career as actor, director, producer, and composer. He has acted in several television series, including his starring role in Rawhide
Clint Eastwood also has contributed music to his films, either through performing, writing, or composing.
Academy Awards Won by Clint Eastwood
In 1992 won the Best Director and Best Picture for '' Unforgiven''
In 2004 won the Best Director and Best Picture for '' Million Dollar Baby''
Clint Eastwood started directing in 1971, and made his debut as a producer in 1982, with Firefox, though he had been functioning as uncredited producer on all of his Malpaso Company films since Hang'Em High in 1968
Clint Eastwood is one of few top Hollywood actors to have also become a critically and commercially successful director
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