clint eastwood

Clint Eastwood Short Story

There is kind of icon which we can find in international entertainment and clint eastwood should be one of iconic movie stars which we can find until these days. He was born in San Francisco May 31, 1930 as the son of Ruth Wood and Clinton Eastwood Sr. Young Clint who was still growing up has to move to Northern California and then the family set in Oregon. Then, Seattle became the next place for him to live in 1951 and in this place; he started to work as swim instructor as well as lifeguard for about two years in military department. Two years was spent and he went back to California. His career in entertainment world was started as actor which did not play for important role in B movies in 1955. Although he almost stopped his dream for being actor, he got great opportunity for joining the entertainment world more with Rawhide TV series.

With role as supporting cast in this TV series for about six years, clint eastwood finally got the role as “The Man with No Name” in 1964 in an Italian western movie called A Fistful of Dollars although it is only kind of the low budget movie production. There were also some movies where he involved in but those movies were not released in the United States. In 1968, his movie which is called Hang ‘Em High is released in United Stated although the turning point of his career in movie industry appeared in 1971 and this is one of the best year in his career in movie industry. The Beguiled in 1971 is one of his movie projects which were made with his mentor Don Siegel. And there are some other movies which he was the cast within or he was the director. Dirty Harry in 1971 was the main point which makes him remembered as macho actor because he played as police officer and this movie had some other sequels production.

Any Which Way You Can in 1980 became his great production of movie around eighteen and it was proved with the sequel Every Which Way but Loose. As the proof of his dedication in movie industry, he was nominated as Best Actor in Academy Award for Unforgiven and he got Oscar for Best Director and also Best Picture producer. In the 21^st century, another Oscar was earned because of Million Dollar Baby in 2004. He is the proof of hard work and dedication in movie industry that can last long for decades just like clint eastwood.