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In 1992, he played the sadistic sheriff " Little " Bill Daggett in the western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor.
The story was eventually adapted and directed by Clint Eastwood as the Oscar-winning film, Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ).
When Leone directed Once Upon a Time in America, he commented that Robert De Niro was a real actor, unlike Eastwood.
In 1992, Eastwood directed Unforgiven, a revisionist western drama for which he won an Oscar for best director, as well as Best Picture.
Leone was one of the two directors whom Eastwood dedicated his award to, the other was Don Siegel who directed Eastwood in a string of movies in the 1970s, including Dirty Harry.
The film was directed by Clint Eastwood, since originally slated director Ron Howard declined due to scheduling conflicts.
In addition to directing many of his own star vehicles, Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River ( 2003 ) and Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 ), for which he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling ( 2008 ).
In 1970, Eastwood starred in the western Two Mules for Sister Sara, with Shirley MacLaine and directed by Don Siegel.
In 1973, Eastwood directed his first western, High Plains Drifter, in which he starred alongside Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill,
Eastwood starred in the thriller Escape from Alcatraz in 1979, the last of his films to be directed by Don Siegel.
In 1982, Eastwood directed and starred alongside his son Kyle in Honkytonk Man, based on the eponymous Clancy Carlile's depression-era novel.
In the same year Eastwood directed, produced, and starred in the Cold War-themed Firefox alongside Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke and Ronald Lacey.
Eastwood directed and starred in the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact, which was shot in the spring and summer of 1983 and is considered the darkest and most violent of the series.
By this time Eastwood received 60 percent of all profits from films he starred in and directed, with the rest going to the studio.
Eastwood revisited the western genre when he directed and starred in Pale Rider ( 1985 ) opposite Michael Moriarty and Carrie Snodgress.
Eastwood directed and starred in White Hunter Black Heart ( 1990 ), an adaptation of Peter Viertel's roman à clef, about John Huston and the making of the classic film The African Queen.
Later in 1990, Eastwood directed and co-starred with Charlie Sheen in The Rookie, a buddy cop action film.
Eastwood played Frank Horrigan in the Secret Service thriller In the Line of Fire ( 1993 ) directed by Wolfgang Petersen and co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo.
Later in 1993, Eastwood directed and co-starred with Kevin Costner in A Perfect World.
In 1997, Eastwood directed and starred in the political thriller Absolute Power, alongside Gene Hackman ( with whom he had appeared in Unforgiven ).
Later in 1997, Eastwood directed Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, based on the novel by John Berendt and starring John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jude Law.
Eastwood directed and starred in True Crime ( 1999 ), which also featured his young daughter Francesca Fisher-Eastwood.
In 2000, Eastwood directed and starred in Space Cowboys alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner.

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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.
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.
Richard Burton played the squad's commander, with Eastwood as his right-hand man.
Eastwood once again played a mysterious stranger — unshaven, wearing a serape-like vest, and smoking a cigar.
Following Sean Connery's announcement that he would not play James Bond again, Eastwood was offered the role but turned it down because he believed the character should be played by an English actor.
In an uncharacteristic offbeat comedy role, Eastwood played Philo Beddoe, a trucker and brawler who roams the American West searching for a lost love accompanied by his brother and an orangutan called Clyde.
Set in New Orleans to avoid confusion with the Dirty Harry films, Eastwood played a single-parent cop drawn into his target's tortured psychology and fascination for sadomasochism.
In 1992, Eastwood revisited the western genre in the self-directed film Unforgiven, in which he played an aging ex-gunfighter long past his prime.
Eastwood played the role of a veteran thief who witnesses the Secret Service cover up of a murder.
Eastwood played one of a group of veteran ex-test pilots sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite.
The following year Eastwood played an ex-FBI agent chasing a sadistic killer ( Jeff Daniels ) in the thriller Blood Work, loosely based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Michael Connelly.
Jazz has played an important role in Eastwood's life from a young age and, although he never made it as a professional musician, he passed on the influence to his son Kyle Eastwood, a successful jazz bassist and composer.
Chablis played herself in the 1997 movie of the same title, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack.
He played an aging yet ready-for-liftoff astronaut in 2000's Space Cowboys, co-starring with director Clint Eastwood.
Clint Eastwood was among the first of many American actors to adopt this persona, which he used to great effect in his Western roles, especially the Spaghetti Westerns made with Sergio Leone, where he played a similar " Man with No Name " character like Mifune did in Yojimbo.
Garner and Clint Eastwood staged an epic fistfight in an episode entitled " Duel at Sundown ", in which Eastwood played a vicious gunslinger.
In 2000, after an operation to replace both knees, Garner appeared with Clint Eastwood ( who had played a villain in the original Maverick series ) as astronauts in the movie Space Cowboys, also featuring Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland.
Two more appearances in comedies for Savalas were as Herbie Haseler in Crooks and Coronets ( 1969 ) and opposite Clint Eastwood in Kelly's Heroes ( 1970 ) where he played the no nonsense hard as nails company sergeant " Big Joe ".
Stevens attended Eastwood Collegiate Institute, where he played middle linebacker.

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