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.

The film was controversial for its portrayal of violence, Eastwood's role creating the prototype for the macho cop of the Dirty Harry film series.

Roger Ebert compared the nature and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his Man with No Name character in the Dollars westerns and praised the film's atmosphere.

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.

Bulloch based his performance on Clint Eastwood's portrayal of the Man with No Name in A Fistful of Dollars ; similar to the Western character, Bulloch cradled the gun prop, made the character seem ready to shoot, slightly tilted his head, and stood a particular way.

Roger Ebert compared the nature and vulnerability of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his " Man with No Name " character in the Dollars Trilogy and praised the atmosphere of the film.

Clint Eastwood's character in Unforgiven inspired the moral ambiguity represented in Kain's portrayal.

Biographer Marc Eliot called Eastwood's role " an amalgam of the Man with No Name, Dirty Harry, and William Munny, here aged and cynical but willing and able to fight on whenever the need arose ".

The Washington Times obituary of Spillane said of Hammer, " In a manner similar to Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, Hammer was a cynical loner contemptuous of the ' tedious process ' of the legal system, choosing instead to enforce the law on his own terms.

The film's protagonist, an unconventional ronin played by Toshirō Mifune, bears a striking resemblance to Eastwood's character: both are quiet, gruff, eccentric strangers with a strong but unorthodox sense of justice and extraordinary proficiency with a particular weapon ( in Mifune's case, a katana ; for Eastwood, a revolver ).

Woo admired Clint Eastwood's and Steve McQueen's characters from their films Dirty Harry and Bullitt respectively, and wanted to make his own Hong Kong-style Dirty Harry police detective film.

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 ).

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.

Glassberg arranged for Eastwood to have an audition with Arthur Lubin who, although impressed with Eastwood's appearance and frame, initially questioned his acting skills, remarking, " He was quite amateurish.

Jennings Lang arranged for Eastwood to meet Don Siegel, a Universal contract director who later became Eastwood's close friend, forming a partnership that would last more than ten years and produce five films.

Although a number of critics praised Eastwood's performance as Dirty Harry, such as Jay Cocks of Time magazine who described him as " giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character ", the film was also widely criticized and accused of being fascistic.

Eastwood's acting was noted by critics, but was overshadowed by Bridges who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Kaufman was fired by producer Bob Daley under Eastwood's command, resulting in a fine reported to be around $ 60, 000 ( US $ in dollars ) from the Directors Guild of America — who subsequently passed new legislation reserving the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging and replacing a director.

" 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.

In Yojimbo, the protagonist defeats a man who carries a gun, while he carries only a knife and a sword ; in the equivalent scene in Fistful, Eastwood's pistol-wielding character survives being shot by a rifle by hiding an iron plate under his clothes to serve as a shield against bullets.

In Episode XXVI, Jack confronts a gang who destroyed his sandals, using Clint Eastwood's lines from A Fistful of Dollars, but substituting ' footwear ' for ' donkey.

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 sacking of Kaufman resulted in Eastwood being fined ( reported to be around $ 60, 000 ) from the Directors Guild of America, who subsequently passed new legislation reserving the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging a director and replacing him with himself.

Bronco Billy was also made with a different company formed by Robert Daley ( who produced 15 of his films from 1971-1980 ), due to Eastwood's divorce at the time.

Bob Hoyt, who Eastwood had contacts with ( through his Malpaso secretary Judy Hoyt and Eastwood's long term friend Fritz Manes ) thought it showed promise and eventually convinced Warner Brothers to buy it.

Sondra Locke, who appears as Eastwood's love interest, performs several musical numbers in the film as well.

According to official press releases by Warner Bros .: " Dirty Harry helped define a genre and introduced the world to a character who has since become a cultural icon, so bringing Clint Eastwood's authentic Dirty Harry character to this next generation of consoles provides exciting promise for game playing audiences everywhere ", said Jason Hall, Senior Vice President of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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.

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

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.

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.

Eastwood's comment after beating one of the villains is, " Well, the Lord certainly does work in mysterious ways.

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

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.

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.