" When asked to comment on the news of Eastwood's marriage to Dina Ruiz in 1996, Sondra Locke told People magazine " The only thing that's sad is that there are several women in his life who are the mothers of his children, and he chose to marry one who is not.

Eastwood's only comedies have been Every Which Way but Loose ( 1978 ) and its sequel Any Which Way You Can ( 1980 ), which are his two most commercially successful films after adjustment for inflation.

Using money earned from the Dollars trilogy, accountant and Eastwood advisor Irving Leonard helped establish Eastwood's own production company, Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwood's property in Monterey County, California.

Upon release in August 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales was widely acclaimed, with many critics and viewers seeing Eastwood's role as an iconic one that related to America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War.

Many critics and viewers saw Eastwood's role as an iconic one, relating it with much of America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War.

Maltz had originally written a script with a happy ending, in which Eastwood's character and the girl live happily ever after.

Clint Eastwood's Missourian character in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ) took up the Confederate cause after Redleg Jayhawkers from Kansas killed his son and raped and murdered his wife.

It was with Clint Eastwood that McKinney would become most associated, becoming part of Eastwood's stock company after they worked together in Michael Cimino's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, in which McKinney played a character called Crazy Driver.

Clint Eastwood directed and starred in a 1976 film adaptation of Josey Wales, retitled The Outlaw Josey Wales after the book was sent to his offices by Carter as an unsolicited submission and Eastwood's partner read and put his support behind it.

Eastwood's appearance in the film, after his string of spaghetti western and Dirty Harry roles, somewhat startled the film industry and he was reportedly advised against making it.

In 1947, after Eastwood's elevation to the Sydney Senior Competition the club purchased seven and a half acres of land a mile and a half north-east of Eastwood railway station.

* Clint Saguaro, a cactus-man modeled after Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name character from Sergio Leone's Trilogy,

According to Eastwood's official biography, a man named Chuck Hill was instrumental in securing employment for Eastwood at Universal ; Hill, who had contacts in Hollywood, managed to sneak Eastwood into one of Universal's studios, where he showed him to cameraman Irving Glassberg.

Eastwood's nineteen-minute installment took only a few days to shoot, but his performance did not please the critics, one writing that " no other performance of his is quite so ' un-Clintlike ' ".

Upon release the film received major recognition in France and is considered one of Eastwood's finest works by the French.

Eastwood has cited Bronco Billy as being one of the most relaxed shoots of his career and biographer Richard Schickel has argued that Bronco Billy is Eastwood's most self-referential character.

Pale Rider became one of Eastwood's most successful films to date.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film marked the highest point of Eastwood's directing career, and the film has since been cited as one of his most underrated directorial achievements.

Leone reportedly took to Eastwood's distinctive style quickly and commented that, " I like Clint Eastwood because he has only two facial expressions: one with the hat, and one without it.

He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima.

He identifies Clint Eastwood's " Man with No Name " character as one of the major inspirations for the protagonist, Roland Deschain.

In one of the classic lines in cinema, Eastwood's character " Dirty " Harry Callahan describes his M29 as " the most powerful handgun in the world " in the 1971 film Dirty Harry.

It would be widely screened in France later and is considered one of Eastwood's finest works by the French.

He mused, " As the gritty, raspy-voiced sergeant, Mr. Eastwood's performance is one of the richest he's ever given.

At the time, Russell described his character as " a mercenary, and his style of fighting is a combination of Bruce Lee, The Exterminator, and Darth Vader, with Eastwood's vocal-ness.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

Spaghetti Westerns also began featuring a pair of different heroes – In Leone's film Eastwood's character is an unshaven bounty hunter dressed similarly to his character in A Fistful of Dollars who enters an unstable partnership with Mortimer, an older bounty killer who uses more sophisticated weaponry and wears a suit ( Lee van Cleef ).

He was a considerable influence on Eastwood's own career as a director, and Eastwood's film Unforgiven is dedicated " for Don and

The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of the pale horse is Death, and shows similarities to Eastwood's 1973 western High Plains Drifter in its themes of morality and justice as well as its exploration of the supernatural.

According to Life magazine, " Eastwood's style is to shoot first and act afterward.

Nishi would later die in 1945 as an officer stationed in the defense of the island of Iwo Jima, and as such is a main character in Clint Eastwood's film, Letters from Iwo Jima.

Although Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood's signature role, he was not a top contender for the part.

Eastwood's iconic portrayal of the blunt, cynical, unorthodox detective who is seemingly in perpetual trouble with his incompetent bosses, set the style for a number of his later roles and, indeed, a whole genre of " loose-cannon " cop films.

The street is included in a car chase sequence in Clint Eastwood's crime drama Magnum Force ( 1973 ) starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, and David Soul.

Colonel Douglas Mortimer is a rival bounty hunter, though he is much older than Eastwood's character: " almost fifty years of age.

In a Clint Eastwood's 1982 movie Honkytonk Man, his character meets Bob Wills ( played by Johnny Gimble, an original Texas Playboy ), who is recording in a studio with other former band members.

Eastwood's character is the sole active-duty Secret Service agent remaining from the detail guarding John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, at the time of his assassination in 1963.

Like Eastwood's character, Mifune's ronin is nameless.

Indeed, Sledge Hammer is most strongly influenced by Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan character.

In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors such as Joe Dante ( Gremlins, Small Soldiers, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace ), Robert Zemeckis ( the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit ), Brian Levant ( the Flintstones duology ), Matthew Robbins (* batteries not included ), Penelope Spheeris ( the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals ), Brad Silberling ( Casper ), Don Bluth ( An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), Clint Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Hereafter-except for the last named the Amblin logo does not appear on Eastwood's films, or on Schindler's List & True Grit ), Gil Kenan ( Monster House ), Martin Campbell ( The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro ), Richard Donner ( The Goonies ), Jan de Bont ( Twister ), Barry Sonnenfeld ( the Men in Black trilogy ), Martin Scorsese ( Cape Fear ), Joe Johnston ( Jurassic Park III ), J. J. Abrams ( Super 8 ), The Coen Brothers ( True Grit ), and Simon Wells ( An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and We're Back!

Eastwood's frequent exploration of ethical values has drawn the attention of scholars, who have explored Eastwood's work from ethical and theological perspectives, including his portrayal of justice, mercy, suicide, and the angel of death.

Eastwood's work includes:

The film was influenced by the work of Eastwood's two major collaborators Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.