Trivia

In this post you’ll find all sorts of trivia and trivial things and facts about Clint Eastwood and his career. Have fun reading this.

 

 

Early Stage Trivia:

Clint Eastwood has admitted to voting for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and Ross Perot in 1992.

 

Back in 1950-1954 Clint drafted and served in the United States Army, assigned to Special Services. He was a swimming instructor.

 

Clint served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was stationed at Ft. Ord across from Monterey, California (over the hill from where he lives and served as mayor, Carmel-by-the-Sea) as a swimming instructor.

 

Clint took acting lessons in Hollywood. His teacher was Michael Chekhov.

 

Clint weighed 11 lbs 6 oz at birth and is of a mixed heritage that includes Dutch, Scottish, Irish and English blood.

 

On leave as a G.I., his airplane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, forcing Clint to swim about three miles to shore. Following this, Clint was given the job as boot camp swimming instructor and therefore confined to base.

 

As a teenager he studied at Los Angeles City College.

 

Clint took acting class from Michael Chekhov in Hollywood.

 

Two of Clint’s army pals convinced him to try acting. He took their advice and signed a contract with Universal Studios in 1954.

 

Clint’s first appearance was a small role in the movie Revenge of the Creature 1955. His only line in the film is: “I’ve lost my white mouse”.

 

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When Clint was just starting out as an actor, he worked at digging swimming pools in between roles.

 

He was paid $100 a week for Francis In The Navy 1955.

 

His role in A Fistful of Dollars (1964) was first offered to Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and James Coburn.

 

He claims that he wound up getting the role in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars from 1964 because James Coburn, to whom the role was originally offered, wanted $25,000. Eastwood accepted the role for $15,000.

 

His Spaghetti Westerns marked the beginning of a new era in cinematic violence. About fifty people were killed in A Fistful of Dollars from 1964.

 

Clint was paid $50,000.00 for his acting in the film, For A Few Dollar More from 1965.

 

Gained popularity with his first three major films, A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For A Few Dollar More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966).

 

Soon afterwards Jolly Films (which produced A Fistful of Dollars (1964)) came out with a film called The Magnificent Stranger, which was actually two episodes of Rawhide (1959) edited together. Eastwood sued and the film was withdrawn.

 

He was going to play the villain Two-Face on the “Batman” (1966) TV series, but before the project began it was canceled.

 

His performance as Blondie in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly from 1966 is ranked #50 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

 

Movie producer Dino De Laurentiis, the man behind hits including Death Wish and Hannibal, gave Eastwood Berlinetta Ferrari while he filmed The Witches in Rome in 1966.

 

Redubbed his own dialogue for the American releases of A Fistful of Dollars 1964, For A Few Dollars More 1965, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 1966.

 

Was paid $250,000 +10% of Western Hemisphere gross for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 1966.

 

Clint’s production company is ‘Malpaso Productions’, which he formed in 1968.

 

He met John Wayne for the first time at the Republican National Convention 1968.

 

He was reluctant to receive second billing to Burton, but agreed after being paid $800,000 for playing the role in
Where Eagles Dare 1968.

 

Attended a celebration of John Wayne’s 40-year career at Paramount Studios, along with Lee Marvin, Rock Hudson, Fred MacMurray, James Stewart, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Caine and Laurence Harvey 1969.

 

He was considered for the role of Harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West 1969.

 

He was offered Gregory Peck’s role in Mackenna´s Gold in 1969, but turned it down to make Hang ´Em High in 1968 instead.

 

In 1969 he was paid $750,000.00 for Paint Your Wagon.

 

When directing, he simply says okay instead of action and cut.

 

Eastwood was 41 years old when he debuted in the role of Dirty Harry Callahan in the action film Dirty Harry (1971).

 

Apparently, the part had been refused by Paul Newman, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra. Eastwood insisted on performing his own action stunts, including the famous scene where he jumped from a bridge to the roof of a moving school bus.

 

When Don Siegel fell ill during production of “Dirty Harry” (1971), Eastwood stepped in as director during the attempted-suicide/jumper sequence.

 

Clint had to fill in for Charlton Heston in1972 at the 44th Annual Academy Awards (TV) until Heston arrived.

 

Clint was appointed to serve on the National Council of the Arts by President Nixon in 1972.

 

He attended President Richard Nixon’s landslide victory celebration in Los Angeles, along with John Wayne, Charlton Heston, and Glenn Ford. (1972)

 

Was named the top box-office star of 1972 and again in 1973 by the Motion Picture Herald, based on an annual poll of exhibitors as to the drawing power of movie stars at the box-office, conducted by Quigley Publications.

 

In 1975 Clintlearned mountain climbing for The Eiger Sanction because he felt the scenes was too dangerous for him and he did not want to pay a

stuntman to do it. He was the last climber up The Totem Pole in Monument Valley, and as part of the contract, the movie crew removed the pitons left by decades of other climbers. The scene where he was hanging off the mountain by a single rope was actually Eastwood, and not a stuntman.

 

In 1977 William Friedkin offered him the lead in Sorcerer, but Eastwood didn’t want to travel anywhere at that time. Jack Nicholson turned the film down for the same reason.

 

In 1978 He was paid $12,000,000 (15% of gross) for Every Which Way But Loose.

 

Clint Eastwood was mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s TV hit The Fall Guy (1981).

 

Along with John Travolta and Tom Selleck, he attended the formal state dinner at the White House held by President Ronald Reagan to welcome Prince Charles and Princess Diana to the United States in 1985.

 

In 1986, he was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It has often been claimed that he ran for office as

a Republican. In fact, although he was registered as a Republican in California, the position of mayor is non-partisan.

 

Play Misty For Me (1971) was set in Carmel, CA, where Clint Eastwood lived and became mayor in 1986.

 

Has his look-alike puppet in the French show “Guignols de l’info, Les” (1988).

 

In Back To The Future part III (1990), When Doc andMarty are at the drive-in preparing the DeLorean for the trip to 1885, Marty mentions Clint Eastwood and Doc replies that he’s never heard of him.

 

The main character he portrayed in White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) is based on legendary director John Huston.

 

He declined an offer from President George Bush to campaign for him in the Presidential election. He told an interviewer the next year, I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self- destructive, absolutely stupid 1992.

 

Saul Rubinek asks Eastwood how he chose the order in which to shoot six deputies in Unforgiven (1992). Eastwood replies that he got lucky.

 

This is a sly reference to Eastwood’s earlier film The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), in which Chief Dan George asks Eastwood how he chose the order in which to shoot four Union soldiers, and Eastwood responds with a lengthy explanation about their various holsters and the looks in their eyes.

 

Actually did hang six stories above the ground on the ledge scene in In The Line Of Fire (1993), although stunt men did the jump and the fall onto the fire escape.

 

An accomplished jazz pianist, he performs much of the music for his movies, including the scene in the bar in In The Line Of Fire 1993.

 

Eastwood’s mother, Francesca Ruth, attended the 77th Academy Awards with her son in 1993. He won the best director Oscar for Unforgiven.

 

Cited as America’s Favorite Movie Star by the Harris Polls conducted in 1993, 1994 and 1997. Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are the only other actors to be cited as the #1 Movie Star as many times.

 

Was apparently such an organized director that he finished Absolute Power (1997) days ahead of schedule.

 

Clint´s wife Dina Ruiz (Dina Eastwood) is a former local television news anchor/reporter in California.

 

In 2000 Clint received the Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, received an honorary Doctorate from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and was the recipient of John F. Kennedy Center Honors.

 

His name is used as the title of the hit Gorillaz song and video “Clint Eastwood” (2001).

 

At the 2005 National Board of Review awards dinner in New York City, Eastwood joked that he would kill filmmaker Michael Moore if Moore ever showed up at his home with a camera (an evident reference to Moore’s controversial interview with Eastwood’s friend, actor/Second Amendment advocate Charlton Heston, for the movie Bowling For Columbine (2002)).

 

After the crowd laughed, Eastwood said, I mean it. Moore’s spokesman said, Michael laughed along with everyone else, and took Mr Eastwood’s comments in the lighthearted spirit in which they were given. Publicly, Eastwood has not commented further.

 

Clint was sworn in as parks commissioner for the state of California at Big Basin Redwood Park, Santa Cruz, California, on 8th June 2002. Holding up his new commissioner’s badge, he told the crowd, “You’re all under arrest.”

 

Eastwood has lodged a $10 million libel lawsuit against the author and publisher of an unauthorized biography, saying the book portrays him as a wife-beater, atheist and coward — the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose late on Tuesday, also contends that author Patrick McGilligan and publisher St. Martin’sPress attempted to destroy Eastwood’s reputation in the book Clint: The Life of a Legend.

 

Every year the PGA tour comes to Pebble Beach, California, to host a celebrity golf tournament where celebrities team up with the professionals. Clint has participated in this every year from 1962-2002 and has been the longest running participant. He now serves as Host.

 

For many years Clint was the owner of the nation’s largest known hardwood tree, a blue gum eucalyptus, until a larger version of the tree was discovered in 2002.

 

At a press conference for his movie Mystic River (2003), Eastwood condemned the Iraq war as a big mistake and defended Sean Penn’s visit to Baghdad, saying he might have done the same thing but for his age.

 

Eastwood says he’s sick of making kiddy movies. The actor believes that the Hollywood movie machine is driven by the teen market, something which he has no interest in working in.

 

Eastwood says his days as trigger-happy cop Dirty Harry are over despite studio efforts to reprise the role — Eastwood has claimed that as far as he is concerned, he has handed in his badge, saying “I’m too old to make comic books. I have nothing against them; I like a good adventure film as much as the next guy, but it’s not for me.

 

Eastwood, the mayor of the California town of Carmel in 1986, says fellow actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to need a good measure of luck in his new role as California’s governor — Politicians have to take unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck; he’s going to need it. It’s going to be difficult for him, said Eastwood in an interview (October 15, 2003).

 

Eastwood’s 1971 Dirty Harry film has topped Men’s Journal poll of The 50 Best Guy Movies, (November 12, 2003).

 

Although he has been associated with violence throughout his career, he personally detests it and has carefully shown the horrific consequences of violence in his more recent films, such as Unforgiven(1992), A Perfect World (1993), Absolute Power (1997), Mystic River (2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).

 

 

Clint whistles on the track Big Noise from his son Kyle’s jazz CD Paris Blue which was released in 2004.

 

Is the spokesman for Take Pride in America, an organization of volunteers who maintain public lands, (May 27, 2004).

 

In 2005 – #43 position Greatest Movie Stars of All Time.

 

Clint’s “Fistful” mannerism was imitated in Canada, by the Tim Horton’s restaurant chain, to promote the 2005 southwest chicken sub.

 

Eastwood’s mother, Francesca Ruth is 96 in 2005 when she came to the Oscar ceremony to see her son picked up the best director award for the second time for Million Dollar Baby.

 

Has promised Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara he will respect sacred war sites when he films his adaptation of best-selling book Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima later this year, (April 7, 2005).

 

In early 2005 Clint revealed that he would supply the voice for a Dirty Harry video game.

 

Is among Time Magazine’s list of the world’s most influential people in 2005.

 

Premiere Magazine ranked him as #43 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature.

 

Presented the Golden Globe Award for Best Director to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain, (2005).

Says he wants to work with Hilary Swank again after the award-winning Million Dollar Baby, (May 11, 2005).

 

The boots that he wore in Unforgiven (1992) are the same ones he wore in the TV series Rawhide (1959). They are now a part of his private collection and were on loan to the 2005 Sergio Leone exhibit at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California. In essence these boots have book-ended his career in the Western genre.

 

When picking up a Special Film-making Achievement prize for Million Dollar Baby at the National Board Of Review Awards dinner in New York, Eastwood chillingly warned documentary-maker Michael Moore he’ll face certain death if Moore ever makes him the subject of a future project in January 15, 2005.

 

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts in 2006.

 

Clint’s mother, Francesca Ruth Eastwood, died on 7 February 2006 at the age of ninety-seven.

 

His performance as “Dirty” Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971) is ranked #92 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

 

Mentioned in theme song in The Adventures of George the Projectionist (2006).

 

Voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California in 2003 and 2006.

 

Baffled TV reporters and his wife Dina alike on the red carpet at the 2007 Oscars, as he joked about the big night’s food choices. He said, I just come here and I get some rubber chicken or something, and walked away. His wife was left to try and explain Eastwood’s emotions. She said, I can’t figure him out… I’m sorry.

 

Is considering directing Nelson Mandela flick The Human Factor - a movie about how the 1995 Rugby World Cup helped heal post-apartheid race relations in South Africa.

 

Denies claims he is bringing his legendary Dirty Harry character back for a new movie – insisting the grizzled cop would be far too old, (May 20, 2008).

 

Is to retire from acting after his role in Gran Torino, (November 2008).

 

Told Spike Lee to shut his face after the African-American filmmaker complained about the lack of black actors in Eastwood’s 2006 films Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. Rationalizing his choice, the actor-turned-director explains the African-American troops who were at battle didn’t take part in raising the flag, (June 2008).

 

Family:

In 12/12/96 Clint had daughter Morgan Eastwood, with Dina Ruiz (Dina Eastwood).

 

Clint Had his seventh child at the age of 66.

 

Clint has eight children: Kimber Eastwood (born 17 June 1964), Kyle Eastwood (born 19 May 1968), Alison Eastwood (born 22 May 1972), Scott Eastwood (born 21 March 1986), Kathryn Eastwood (2 February 1988), Heather Eastwood (born 19 July 1988), Francesca Fisher-Eastwood (born 7 August 1993) and Morgan Eastwood (born 12 December 1996). Clint’s granddaughter, Graylen (Kyle’s daughter) was born in 1994.

 

 

Kimber Alison Kyle Kathryn

 

Scott Heather Francesca Morgan

 

Clint had granddaughter, Graylen (Kyle’s daughter) born 1994.

 

He refused to have children with his wife at first (although he did have a daughter in 1964 from an affair), but then she became very ill. Once she recovered, he changed his mind, and almost 15 years after they married, their first child together was born.

 

His mother, Francesca Ruth Eastwood, died at age 97 (2/7/06).

 

Career Trivia:

Clint’s first screen appearance was an unaccredited role in Revenge of the Creature (1955), as the goofy white coated lab assistant who does the silly mouse gag in the lab scene with the monkey. His only line in the film is: “I’ve lost my white mouse”.

 

Got his first acting role in “Rawhide” (1959) while visiting a friend at the CBS, when a studio exec spotted him because he “looked like a cowboy.”

 

Clint appeared on T.G. Sheppard’s hit single Make My Day, which reached #12 on ‘Billboard’s Hot Country Singles’ chart in 1984 and also reached #62 on that magazine’s ‘Hot 100 singles’ survey.

 

Tarantula (1955) is Eastwood’s movie debut as the (unaccredited) leader of the jet squadron that attacks the tarantula in the film’s climax.

 

In 2006 – #4 position ‘Top ten favorite movie stars’.

 

In 2006 – #92 position ‘100 Greatest Performances of All Time’ for Dirty Harry.

 

Clint and former girlfriend, Sondra Locke made six films together: Any Which Way You Can (1980), Bronco Billy (1980), Every Which Way But Loose (1978), The Gauntlet (1977), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Sudden Impact (1983). Clint was a partner with Sondra from 1975 thru 1988. They co-habituated from 1977-1988.

 

Clint directed 8 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank and himself (in Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004)).

 

Clint was listed in the #4 position in the annual Harris Poll of America’s top ten favorite’s movie stars in 2006.

 

Clint was offered Al Pacino’s role in Any Given Sunday (1999), but turned it down because Warner Bros. wouldn’t let him direct it as well.

 

 

Eastwood wore the same poncho, without ever having washed it, in all three of his man with no name western movies.

 

For two consecutive years, Clint directed two out of the four actors in performances that won them Oscars: Sean Penn (Best Actor for Mystic River (2003)) and Tim Robbins (Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River (2003)) in 2004, and Hilary Swank (Best Actress for Million Dollar Baby (2004)) and Morgan Freeman (Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby (2004)) in 2005.

 

He has always disliked the reading of political and social agendas in his films, which has occurred from Dirty Harry (1971) to Million Dollar Baby (2004). He has always maintained that all of his films are apolitical and what he has in mind when making a film is whether it’s going to be entertaining and compelling.

 

He objected to the end of Dirty Harry (1971) when Harry throws his badge away after killing the Scorpio Killer, arguing with director Don Siegel that Harry knew that being a policeman was the only work for which he was suited. Siegel eventually convinced Eastwood that Harry threw his badge away as a symbol that he had lost faith in the justice system.

 

He was a contract player at Universal International. He and another young actor named Burt Reynolds were released from their contracts and left the studio on the same day. They were both fired by the same director.

 

Eastwood was fired when the director didn’t want to use him in a movie because “his Adam’s Apple was too big.” Reynolds, who was serving as a stunt man, was fired after he shoved the director into a water tank during an argument over how to do a stunt fall.

 

He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.

 

He was voted the 16th “Greatest Movie Star of All Time” by Entertainment Weekly. Eastwood was only two rankings behind his own all-time favorite film actor, James Cagney.

 

He, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford, Mel Gibson, Richard Attenborough and Kevin Costner are the only directors best known as actors who have won an Academy Award as Best Director.

 

His performance as Dirty Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971) is ranked #42 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

 

In the late 1980s he discussed remaking the classic Sam Peckinpah western RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (1962) with Charlton Heston.

 

In the late 1990s, Clint referenced Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Bronco Billy (1980), Honkytonk Man (1982), Unforgiven (1992) & A Perfect World (1993) as the favorites of the films he had made.

 

Many of the cast members of his film Mystic River – Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon – have directing credits, but it wasn’t a problem for the actors to follow orders from Eastwood. Tim Robbins was pleased with Eastwood’s habit of having his actors do only a couple of takes of each scene, and not work 16-hour days.

 

He was ranked #2 in Empire (UK) magazine’s The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. (October 1997)

 

Re dubbed his own dialog for the American releases of A Fistful Of Dollars 1964, For A Few Dollars More 1965 and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 1966.

 

The producers of Dirty Harry (1971) originally didn’t want Eastwood, since they felt he was too young at 41. After older stars like John Wayne, Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum turned the film down, Eastwood was cast. He last played Harry Callahan aged 57 in The Dead Pool (1988), which was the age the character was supposed to be in the first film according to the original screenplay.

 

Awards and Honors Trivia:

At age 74, he became the oldest person to win the Best Director Oscar for Million Dollar Baby (2004).

 

In 1971 Clint Won Golden Globe Award – World Film Favorite – Male.

 

In 1988 Clint won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.

 

In 1989 he won Golden Globe Award – Best Director – Motion Picture for: “Bird” (1988).

 

In 1993 he won Best Director Oscar for “Unforgiven” (1992).

 

In 1993 He won Golden Globe Award – Best Director – Motion Picture for: “Unforgiven” (1992).

 

In 1995 Academy Awards, USA – Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

 

In 2005 He won Best Achievement in Directing Oscar for: “Million Dollar Baby” (2004).

 

In 2005 he won Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar for: “Million Dollar Baby”

 

In 2005 he won Golden Globe Award – Best Director – Motion Picture for: “Million Dollar Baby” (2004).

 

In Feb 1996 he got American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.

 

Under his direction in 2003 and 2004 respectively, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman both won Best Supporting Actor Oscars. They were both first time winners, and had previously starred alongside each other in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

 

Clint received an honorary Palme d’Or award from the organizers of the Cannes Film Festival.

 

In 1998 he received an honorary César award in Paris, France for his body of work.

 

In 1993 – #1 position ‘America’s Favorite Movie Star’

 

In 1994 – #1 position ‘America’s Favorite Movie Star’

 

In1996 – #50 position ‘100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time’ for The Good The Bad and The Ugly

 

In 1997 – #1 position ‘America’s Favorite Movie Star’

 

In 1997 – #2 position ‘Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time’

 

Cited as America’s Favorite Movie Star by the Harris Polls conducted in 1993, 1994 and 1997. Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are the only other actors to be cited as the #1 Movie Star as many times.

 

Clint has been named to Quigley Publications’ annual Top 10 Poll of Money-Making Stars 21 times, making him #2 all-time for appearances in the top 10 list. Only John Wayne, with 25 appearances in the Top 10, has more. Clint, who first appeared in the Top Ten at #5 in 1968, finished #2 to Wayne at the box office in 1971 after finishing #2 to Paul Newman in 1970.

 

After his first two consecutive #1 appearances in 1972 and 1973, he dropped back to #2 in 1974, trailing Robert Redford at the box office. Clint was again #2 in 1979, 1981 and 1982 (topped by Burt Reynolds all three years), before leading the charts in 1983 and ‘84. He last topped the poll in 1993.

 

Clint was appointed to serve on the National Council of the Arts by President Nixon in 1972.

 

Eastwood, who first appeared in the Top Ten at #5 in 1968, finished #2 to Wayne at the box office in 1971 after finishing #2 to Paul Newman in 1970. After his first two consecutive #1 appearances in 1972 and 1973, he dropped back to #2 in 1974, trailing Robert Redford at the box office.

 

Clint was again #2 in 1979, 1981 and 1982 (topped by Burt Reynolds all three years), before leading the charts in 1983 and ‘84. He last topped the poll in 1993.

 

Has retired from acting, according to director Paul Haggis, who offered him the role in In the Valley of Elah (2007) played by Tommy Lee Jones. Eastwood declined the part, telling Haggis that he had come out of retirement at the request of producer Albert S. Ruddy to appear in Million Dollar Baby 2004, which he also directed Eastwood won the Oscar for his direction of the film, which also won Best Picture honors at the 2005 Academy Awards.

 

He was awarded the rank of “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” by French President Jacques Chirac as a tribute to his career as an actor and a filmmaker.

 

He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.

 

In 1994 he became President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

 

Is America’s no.6 favorite movie star according to a poll released by Garris Interactive, (January 21, 2006).

 

Received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Southern California. 2007.

 

Received an honorary Doctorate from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Wesleyan is also home to his personal archives, (2000).

 

He is in top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list.

 

Was named a knight in France’s elite Legion of Honor by French president Jacques Chirac, (February 17, 2007).

 

Was named the #1 top money-making star at the box office in Quigley Publications’ annual poll of movie exhibitors five times between 1972 and 1993. Bing Crosby, Burt Reynolds and Tom Hanks also havebeen named #1 five times, while Tom Cruise holds the record for being named #1 six times.

 

According to Haggis in an interview “Entertainment Weekly”, Eastwood — who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in “Million Dollar Baby” — thinks his last performance is a fitting way to end his career: going out on top.

 

In 2004 Nominated for Best Achievement in Directing Oscar for: “Mystic River” (2003).

 

In 2007 nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar for: “Letters from Iwo Jima” (2006) – Shared with: Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz.

 

In February 2009 nominated for Best Original Song – Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for Gran Torino(2009) – For the song Gran Torino.

 

At the The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973) (TV), he presented the 1972 Best Picture Oscar to Albert S. Ruddy, the producer of THE GODFATHER (1972). Thirty-two years later, they would jointly accept the 2004 Best Picture Oscar at the The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV), along with fellow MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) co-producer Tom Rosenberg.

 

Clint became the oldest person to ever win an Oscar for ‘Best Director’. He won the award for Million Dollar Baby at the age of 74.

 

Clint was not nominated for an Academy Award, either as an actor or as a director, until he was sixty-two.

 

He was not nominated for an Academy Award, either as an actor or as a director, until age 62.

 

He was the only nominee for the Best Actor Oscar in 2004 (for Million Dollar Baby (2004)) to play a fictitious character. All four other nominees portrayed real people in their respective films.

 

Clint was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at Academy Awards for Unforgiven, (1993).

 

He was also nominated for Best Direction at BAFTA Awards for Unforgiven, (1993).

 

Was nominated for Best Director – Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for Mystic River, (2004).

 

Nominated for Best Director Oscar for Mystic River, (2004).

 

Nominated for Best motion picture of the year at Academy Awards for Letters From Iwo Jima, (2007).

 

Voted the best (10th) autographed in Hollywood by Autograph Collector’s 14th annual survey, (2006).

 

Trivia – Various Subjects:

As a director he always refused, and refuses to this day, to test screen his films before their release.

 

At the end of all movies Clint directs, during the credits the camera will move around the location it was filmed in, then freeze-frame for the rest of the credits.

 

Claimed that the trait he most despised in others was racism.

 

Clint Eastwood is an anagram for ‘old west action’.

 

Clint has ruled out the possibility of playing Dirty Harry again, saying he has outgrown him age-wise.

 

Clint is 6?4 but because of back problems, he can now only stand up to 6?2.

 

Every year the PGA tour plays at the golf club, for a celebrity golf tournament where celebrities team up with the professionals. Clint has participated in this every year from 1962-2002 and has been the longest running participant. He now serves as Host.

 

Clint is a patron of the arts, notably as an avid collector of western art.

 

Clint is a vegetarian.

 

Clint is allergic to horses

 

Clint is Fluent in Italian.

 

Clint is mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s TV hit The Fall Guy.

 

Clint is of a mixed heritage that includes Dutch, Scottish, Irish and English blood.

 

 

Clint is owner of the exclusive Tehama golf club in Carmel Valley, California.

 

Clint says Angelina Jolie is a very talented actress hampered by her gorgeous face.

 

Clint´s Favorite actor is James Cagney.

 

Clint´s favorite movie is John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley, (1941).

 

Clint’s favorite actors include Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, James Cagney and Robert Mitchum.

 

Despite his reputation for violence in other films, his character in Where Eagles Dare kills more people in this film than any other Eastwood character.

 

He frequently uses shadow lighting in his films.

 

He owns the Inn Mission Ranch, Carmel, California, USA.

 

He used to shop at Market Basket a lot when it was still open.

 

His characters have a new trademark expression in each movie. The same character (e.g., Dirty Harry) will have a different one in each movie.

 

In early 2005 he announced that he would supply the voice for a “Dirty Harry” video game.

 

It’s interesting, given his penchant towards directing or starring in westerns, that his name, Clint Eastwood, is an anagram for ‘old west action.’

 

It’s somewhat ironic, given his penchant towards directing or starring in westerns, that his name, Clint Eastwood, is an anagram for ‘old west action.’

 

Most of his movies usually begin and end with the death of a character.

 

Some of his favorite actors are Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum and James Stewart.

 

Some of his favorite movies are THE 39 STEPS (1935), SERGEANT YORK (1941), THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943) and CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981).

 

The characters Clint plays always have a new trademark expression in each and every movie he does.

 

The lead characters in his movie are often outsiders with a dark past they prefer not to remember.

 

Was named the top box-office star of 1972 and again in 1973 by the Motion Picture Herald, based on an annual poll of exhibitors as to the drawing power of movie stars at the box-office, conducted by Quigley Publications.

 

When directing, Clint simply says “okay” instead of “action” and “cut”.

 

When he directs, he insists that his actors wear as little makeup as possible and he likes to print first takes. As a result, his films consistently finish on schedule and on budget.

 

Whenever asked if he would do a Dirty Harry 6, he often joked that he can imagined Dirty Harry now longed retired, and fly-fishing with his .44 magnum.

 

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