Clint Eastwood The Man With No Name
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, and he is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and politician. He was first prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide (1959–1965). He begun to fame by playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns such as A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films such as Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool. These roles in the movides have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Even most of the acting styles and body gestures where imitated by other actors. The some of the most liked Clint Eastwood styles are the way he smokes the cigars, the shooting style and so on.
Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor for the work he made in the films Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Escape from Alcatraz, Tightrope, Pale Rider, Heartbreak Ridge, In the Line of Fire, The Bridges of Madison County, and Gran Torino, have all received commercial success and critical acclaim.
Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River and Letters from Iwo Jima, he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling. He has received considerable critical praise in France, including for several films which were not well received in the United States, and he has been awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal, and in 2007 the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000, he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
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