CLINT EASTWOOD

Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, actor, producer, and composer. He has won Academy Awards five times - twice each as Best Director and as producer of the Best Picture; he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1995. Birth Name: Clinton Eastwood, Jr.

Born: May 31, 1930, San Francisco, CA

Education: Los Angeles City College (business)

Jobs : LumberJack, Played Piano, Swimming instructor in the U.S. navy. He was drafted in 1950 but his plane crashed in the Pacific north of San Francisco. He escaped serious injury, but had to remain behind to testify at a hearing investigating the cause of the crash.

Eastwood began work as an actor, making brief appearances in B-films such as Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula and Francis in the Navy. In 1958, he got his first starring role in a feature film, Ambush at Cimarron Pass. Eastwood then got a huge break when he was cast as the second lead in the long-running television series, Rawhide. In 1982 Eastwood directed, produced, and starred in Firefox. Eastwood has received numerous other awards, including an America Now TV Award as well as one of the 2000 Kennedy Center Honors. He received an honorary degree from University of the Pacific in 2006, and an honorary degree from University of Southern California in 2007. In 1994 He received the honorary Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in film producing. On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Clint Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.



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