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Clint Eastwood, Jr. |
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Male |
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6' 4" |
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US - United States of America |
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May 31, 1930 |
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San Francisco, CA |
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PO Box 4366 |
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Carmel, CA 93921-4366 |
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Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco) as the son of a steel worker, he was a college dropout from Los Angeles College, attempting a business related degree. He found work in such B-films as Tarantula (1955), and Francis in the Navy (1955) until he got his first breakthrough in TV series "Rawhide" (1959). Eastwood found his public acknowledgedment with A Fistful of Dollars (1964), and For a Few Dollars More (1965). But it was the third sequel where he found one of his trademark roles: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966).
It was his role as the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry (1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day. Unforgiven in 1992 was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Actor for Eastwood, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. He expanded his repertoire again with the love story, The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and took on more work as director, including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Mystic River (2003), and Million Dollar Baby (2004), for which he won a rare second Best Director award, at 74 the oldest active director to do so.
Eastwood, who has been married twice, has four daughters and two sons by five different women. Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California on April 8, 1986, receiving 72% of the vote. He served a two-year term before declining to run for re-election. Eastwood has become one of the most prominent opponents of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the disability rights movement, after his restaurant in Carmel was hit with an ADA enforcement lawsuit. In May 2000, he testified before Congress in support of a bill that would have added procedural protections for small business owners. Eastwood received Kennedy Center Honors in 2000.
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