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 ).

Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced all except four of his American films.

Eastwood has seven children by five different women, although he has only married twice.

The script was about a jazz disc jockey named Dave ( Eastwood ), who has a casual affair with Evelyn ( Jessica Walter ), a listener who had been calling the radio station repeatedly at night, asking him to play her favorite song — Erroll Garner's " Misty ".

Eastwood blamed Universal Studios for the film's poor promotion and turned his back on them to make an agreement with Warner Brothers, through Frank Wells, that has lasted to the present day.

The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), a western inspired by Asa Carter's 1972 novel of the same name, has lead character Josey Wales ( Eastwood ) as a pro-Confederate guerilla who refuses to surrender his arms after the American Civil War and is chased across the old southwest by a group of enforcers.

Eastwood portrays a struggling western singer Red Stovall who suffers from tuberculosis, but has finally been given an opportunity to make it big at the Grand Ole Opry.

Based on the novel by Robert James Waller, the film relates the story of Robert Kincaid ( Eastwood ), a photographer working for National Geographic, who has an affair with a middle-aged Italian farm wife, Francesca ( Streep ).

Beginning with the thriller Play Misty for Me, Eastwood has directed over 30 films in his career, including westerns, action films, and dramas.

Eastwood has indicated that he lays out a film's plot to provide the audience with necessary details, but not " so much that it insults their intelligence.

Eastwood has fathered at least seven children by five different women and has been described, by newspapers, as a " serial womanizer ".

" The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood ( born December 12, 1996 ).

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.

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

A self-professed " liberal on civil rights ", Eastwood has stated that he is pro-choice on abortion.

Despite being heavily associated with firearms in his Westerns and cop movies, Eastwood has publicly endorsed gun control since at least 1973.

As a politician, Eastwood has made successful forays into both local and state government.

" 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.

Eastwood has possessed a passion for music all his life.

The line " Go ahead, make my day " ( uttered by Eastwood during an early scene in a coffee shop ) is often cited as one of cinema's immortal lines.

Eastwood directed and played the lead role in the 1980 comedy Bronco Billy alongside Locke, Scatman Crothers, and Sam Bottoms.

Lewis has worked frequently with actor-director Clint Eastwood in several films including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Pink Cadillac, Any Which Way You Can, Bronco Billy, Every Which Way but Loose, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and High Plains Drifter.

Such films as U Turn by Oliver Stone, Eight Legged Freaks, How the West Was Won, Blind Justice, The Prophecy, Skinwalkers, The Gauntlet with Clint Eastwood, and Young Billy Young are set in Superior.

The 1995 movie The Stars Fell on Henrietta, produced by Clint Eastwood and David Valdez, and starring Robert Duvall, Brian Dennehy and Billy Bob Thornton, depicts the Texas oil rush of the 1930s, and is set in Henrietta.

Television series in which he appeared included Hopalong Cassidy, Judge Roy Bean ( in which he played the lead, Texas Justice of the Peace Judge Roy Bean ), Cimarron City, the episode " Duel at Sundown " of Maverick with James Garner and Clint Eastwood, Leave It To Beaver ( as both " Uncle Billy " and " Captain Jack "), The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, Route 66, Bringing Up Buddy, The Californians, Bus Stop, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Cade's County and The Rifleman.

Though Griffith was generally cast as the outlaw in Western pictures, he managed to garner a few memorable " good guy " roles over his many years in Hollywood – Abraham Lincoln in both 1950's Stage to Tucson and 1955's Apache Ambush, sheriff Pat Garrett in 1954's The Law vs. Billy the Kid, John Wesley Hardin in a 1959 television episode of Maverick entitled " Duel at Sundown " featuring Clint Eastwood, and Davy Crockett in 1956's The First Texan.

The couple have a daughter, Misty Kyd ( named after the phrase from the Clint Eastwood film Play Misty for Me and Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid ), born on 9 September 2002.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

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 ".

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.

An ongoing lawsuit, in response to Eastwood allegedly ramming a woman ’ s car, resulted in no Eastwood films being shown in cinemas in 1991.

Eastwood felt that the issue of victims ' rights was being overshadowed by the political atmosphere of the time.

Bus connections are available throughout the system, with the main interchanges being at Hucknall, for TrentBarton Connect to the vast Hucknall Estates, and the 141 for a fast connection to Mansfield ; Moor Bridge for Trent Barton Rainbow 3 and NCT 70 / 71 / L11 for Arnold ; Bulwell Forest for NCT 17 to City Hospital ; Bulwell for NCT 17 / 35 / 68 / 69 / 70 / 71 / 79 / 80 / 81 / L6 / L11 ; Cinderhill for Trent Barton Rainbow 1 to Eastwood ( via a short walk to Nuthall Road ) and NCT 35 / 70 / 71 / 72 / 79 / L11 ; Wilkinson Street for Medilink ( City Hospital to QMC ); Royal Centre for TrentBarton and NCT ; Old Market Square for TrentBarton and NCT ; Lace Market for NCT 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 34 / 77 / 78 / 79 / Citylink 1 ; Station Street for Premiere, TrentBarton and NCT ; Phoenix Park for the Phoenix Flyer to Nuthall, Kimberley, IKEA and Ilkeston.

Inspector Harry Callahan ( Clint Eastwood ) and his partner Earlington " Early " Smith ( Felton Perry ) visit the crime scene despite them being loaned to stakeout by their Lieutenant.

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.

The old Eastwood Brickworks site, now being developed into a housing estate

" " His love ... or his life ..." According to Eastwood and Jennings Lang, the film, aside from being poorly publicized, flopped due to Clint being " emasculated in the film ".

According to author Marc Eliot, Eastwood perceived himself as being upstaged by Bridges.

" Two Mules for Sister Sara marked the last time that Eastwood would receive second billing for a film and it would be 25 years until he risked being overshadowed by a leading lady again in The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995 ).

At this point in time Muhammad Ali, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, James Caan, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen were being considered for the leading role of Superman.

His career revival began when the young Italian director Sergio Leone boldly cast Van Cleef, whose career was still in the doldrums, as one of the two protagonists, alongside Clint Eastwood, in Leone's second western, For a Few Dollars More.

The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films.

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.

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.

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.

Later the same year, Eastwood starred as one of a group of Americans who steal a fortune in gold from the Nazis, in the World War II film Kelly's Heroes, with Donald Sutherland and Telly Savalas.

Eastwood plays Jonathan Hemlock in a role originally intended for Paul Newman, an assassin turned college art professor who decides to return to his former profession for one last " sanction " in return for a rare Pissarro painting.

It was hailed as one of the best films of 1985 and the best western to appear for a considerable period, with Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune remarking, " This year ( 1985 ) will go down in film history as the moment Clint Eastwood finally earned respect as an artist ".

Eastwood played one of a group of veteran ex-test pilots sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite.

On August 3, 2012, Eastwood attended a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, stating that Romney would boost the country and " restore a decent tax system ... so that there's a fairness and people are not pitted against one another as who's paying taxes and who isn't.

Clint Eastwood says on the 1999 DVD release that the movie is " certainly one of the high points of my career ... in the Western genre of filmmaking.

The northeastern section of the township is heavily industrialized on its western end ( west of Wood Road ), but since 2002 this section has become the ' downtown ' of Lansing Township with the construction of the Eastwood Towne Center, one of the largest shopping malls in Metropolitan Lansing, and the subsequent creation of the Lansing Township Downtown Development Authority to capture state and national funds for development.

The cities of Kalamazoo and Parchment are adjacent to the township and have annexed much land that was formerly within the township, such that the township now consists of two non-contiguous sections of land and one small section that is connected by a narrow point across Riverview Dr. Two census-designated places ( CDPs ) are within the township: Eastwood and Westwood.

Clint Eastwood singled out Clift's performance as the one that had the greatest influence on his own acting career.

In August of that year, at one of the Nottinghamshire miner's regular meetings at the Sun Inn, at Eastwood the idea was mooted to extend the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway to Leicester.

In 1983, he jumped from an MC-130 onto a landing strip in Grenada and ordered one of his Rangers to drive a bulldozer like a tank toward Cuban troops as he advanced behind it — a move highlighted in the 1986 Clint Eastwood film, Heartbreak Ridge.

One evening Eastwood and Siegel had been watching the San Francisco 49ers in the Kezar Stadium in the last game of the season and thought the eerie Greek amphitheater-like setting would be an excellent location for shooting one of the scenes where Callahan encounters the psychopathic killer Scorpio.

In October 1972, soon after the release of the movie in Australia, two armed men ( one of whom coincidentally had the last name ' Eastwood ') kidnapped a teacher and 6 school children in Victoria, Australia.

The Shonash Ravine Bridge was completed in the summer of 1886, around the same time the ravine was renamed the Eastwood Ravine ( or Clayton Ravine, depending upon which timeline one focuses ).

As a side note, since in this timeline Emmett Brown never developed time-travel technology, thus the events of the original series never took place, the Eastwood Ravine is still known as the Clayton Ravine, as no one saved Clara from her death