Clint Eastwood
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- | '''Clint Eastwood''' (born '''Clinton Eastwood, Jr.''' on [[May 31]] [[1930]]) is an iconic [[United States|American]] [[actor]], [[composer]], and [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning [[film director]] and [[film producer|producer]]. While his recent work as a director, on films like ''[[Million Dollar Baby]]'' and ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]'', is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his [[tough guy]], [[anti-hero]] acting roles, including Inspector [['Dirty' Harry Callahan]] in the ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' series and the [[Man with No Name]] in [[Sergio Leone|Sergio Leone's]] [[Spaghetti Western]]s. | + | '''Clinton Eastwood Jr.''' (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the [[Western (genre)|Western]] TV series ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'', Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "[[Man with No Name]]" in [[Sergio Leone]]'s "''[[Dollars Trilogy]]''" of [[Spaghetti Western]]s during the mid-1960s and as [[antihero]] cop [[Dirty Harry (character)|Harry Callahan]] in the five ''[[Dirty Harry (film series)|Dirty Harry]]'' films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. |
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Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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