Eastwood later spoke of the transition from a television western to A Fistful of Dollars: " In Rawhide I did get awfully tired of playing the conventional white hat.

In response to the criticism, Eastwood stated " I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

" Eastwood also said that he was on the fence when it came to believing in God saying " I was born during the Depression and I was brought up with no specific church.

" I don't see myself as conservative ," Eastwood has stated, while noting in the same breath that he isn't " ultra-leftist ", either.

In 1999, Eastwood stated, " I guess I was a social liberal and fiscal conservative before it became fashionable.

" Nevertheless, Eastwood, in an expression of patriotism, wished Barack Obama well upon his subsequent victory saying, " Obama is my president now and I am going to be wishing him the very best because it is what is best for all of us.

" However, Eastwood has seemed to want stronger leadership from President Obama, stating in 2010, " I think he's a nice fella and I enjoyed watching him come along and I enjoyed watching him campaign and win the job.

" In January 2011, Eastwood told the UK's Daily Mail that " I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial.

" As for McCain, Eastwood reflected, " I voted for McCain, not because he was a Republican, but because he had been through war ( in Vietnam ) and I thought he might understand the war in Iraq better than somebody who hadn't.

* Lafayette Escadrille, World War I film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood

He signed new talent, including Female Rapper SKG, Crooked I, Lisa " Left Eye " Lopes, Top Dogg and Tha Realest, picking up affiliates Spider Loc and Eastwood.

In 1604 he was presented by James I to the vicarage of St. Laurence and All Saints, in Eastwood, Essex.

In a 2009 MTV Interview, Eastwood said, " So I said, ' I'll do it ,' but since they had initially talked to me, there had been all these rewrites.

The rights to the song " Misty " were obtained after Eastwood saw Garner at the Concord Music Festival in 1970, and he later paid $ 2, 000 for the use of the song " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " by Roberta Flack.

This phenomenon prompted Derrida's wife to remark to the filmmakers, " I hear you've made him into Clint Eastwood.

During his Army days, Janssen became friends with fellow enlistees Martin Milner and Clint Eastwood while posted at Ft. Ord, California.

He remarked that it was an honor to work with Clint Eastwood, whom he praised for his professionalism.

The most popular Spaghetti Westerns were those of Sergio Leone, whose Dollars Trilogy ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ), featuring Clint Eastwood and scores by Ennio Morricone, came to define the genre along with Once Upon a Time in the West.

He played a President of the United States who commits a murder in 1997's Absolute Power, re-teaming with director-star Clint Eastwood.

Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

Leone then chose Van Cleef to appear with Clint Eastwood again, this time as the primary villain in the classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Most succeeding Spaghetti Westerns tried to get a ragged, laconic hero with superhuman weapon skill, preferable one that looked like Clint Eastwood – Franco Nero, John Garko and Terence Hill started out that way ; Anthony Steffen and others stayed that way all their Spaghetti Western career.

In A Pistol for Ringo a traditional sheriff commissions a money-oriented hero – played by Giuliano Gemma with more pleasing manners than the Eastwood character but just as devious and deadly – to ( typically ) infiltrate a gang of Mexican bandits whose leader is played by ( typically ) Fernando Sancho.

Another example is the Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone ; no continuity between the three movies was intended by Leone, but American marketers advertised the Clint Eastwood character in each film as being the same " Man with No Name ".

A song from the band Gorillaz is named " Clint Eastwood ", and features references to the actor, with the iconic yell featured in The Good, the Bad and the Uglys score heard at the beginning of the video.

Although movie audiences had shrunk, Warner's new management believed in the drawing power of stars, signing co-production deals with several of the biggest names of the day, among them Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, and Clint Eastwood, carrying the studio successfully through the 1970s and 1980s.

Yojimbo was also the origin of the " Man with No Name " trend which included Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly both also starring Clint Eastwood, and arguably continued through his 1968 opus Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards.

She also appeared as a Vietnam War widow with Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge.

Until that time Eastwood had been an American television actor with few credited film roles.

In his later years, Leone had a falling out of sorts with actor Clint Eastwood.

According to Frayling's biography of Leone, Something to Do with Death, he envisioned a contemporary adaptation of Cervantes ' 17th century novel Don Quixote with Clint Eastwood in the title role and Eli Wallach as Sancho Panza.

He was best known for the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 ) and five films with Clint Eastwood, including Dirty Harry ( 1971 ) and Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ).

He worked with Elvis Presley and Dolores del Río in Flaming Star ( 1960 ), with Steve McQueen in Hell Is for Heroes and Lee Marvin in the influential The Killers ( 1964 ) before directing a series of five films with Clint Eastwood that were commercially successful in addition to being well received by critics.

Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry, and was raised in a working class home with his younger sister, Jeanne ( born 1934 ).

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.

In a long sought-after break, Eastwood was cast in the supporting role of Rowdy Yates for the CBS hour-long western series Rawhide in the summer of 1958, although he was not especially happy with his role.

It was directed by Nigel O ' Neill and starred Lorraine Creighton, Linda Heenan, Mairead Eastwood, Gerry Eastwood, Sean Hurson and Charlie Eastwood.

In fact, an estimated 500 different actors, including Gordon Pinsent, Donnelly Rhodes, Nicholas Campbell, Jayne Eastwood, Margot Kidder, Eric McCormack, Vlasta Vrana, Linda Kash, Gordon Clapp, and Wendy Crewson, Abby Zotz, had guest roles during the show's eight-year run.

Garden Stage: José James ; Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir ; Cal State Northridge Jazz Band ; Kyle Eastwood Band, Meklit Hadaro.

The cast also included Linda Sorenson as Kitty's mother, Jayne Eastwood as her office assistant Bernice, Chris Potter as her boyfriend Tim, and Angela Dohrmann as her roommate Angela.