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 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.

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.

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.

Kelly's Heroes was the last film in which Eastwood appeared, that was not produced by his own Malpaso Productions.

A number of critics thought Eastwood's directing was " as derivative as it was expressive ", with Arthur Knight of the Saturday Review remarking that Eastwood had " absorbed the approaches of Siegel and Leone and fused them with his own paranoid vision of society ".

Despite the danger, Eastwood insisted on doing all his own climbing and stunts.

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

The story is said to have originated from events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, where he grew up.

Lawrence's own father was a miner, and the author was intimately familiar with the region of the Derby / Notts coalfield, having been born at Eastwood, Nottingham.

In the four years of its run, Highway Patrol would feature many actors who would later become successful stars in their own right, among them Stuart Whitman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Conrad, Bill Bixby, Barbara Eden, and Leonard Nimoy.

* For around twenty years, Judge Dredd lived in Rowdy Yates block, named after a character in the TV series Rawhide who was played by Dredd's own inspiration, Clint Eastwood.

To compete with rival production The Golden Child ’ s casting of box office draw Eddie Murphy, Carpenter wanted a big star of his own and both Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson were considered but were busy.

Wells died in a helicopter crash in Easter 1994 while returning from a ski trip in Nevada's Ruby Mountains, he was a good friend of Clint Eastwood who had been skiing with Wells that weekend and had departed in his own helicopter just an hour before Well's departure.

Eastwood, however, felt that the film needed a title of its own, and in the middle of production came up with The Enforcer.

A number of critics thought Eastwood's directing derivative ; Arthur Knight in Saturday Review remarked that Eastwood had " absorbed the approaches of Siegel and Leone and fused them with his own paranoid vision of society ".

Chekhov's own students included Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Quinn, Clint Eastwood, Mala Powers, Yul Brynner, Patricia Neal, Sterling Hayden, Jack Palance, Elia Kazan, Paula Strasberg, Lloyd Bridges and his wife, Dorothy Bridges.

Eastwood Rugby Club is the only Sydney first division club to own its home ground.

Once filming of Breezy had finished, Warner Brothers announced that Eastwood had agreed to reprise his role as Detective Harry Callahan in Magnum Force ( 1973 ), a sequel to Dirty Harry, about a group of rogue young officers ( among them David Soul, Robert Urich and Tim Matheson ) in the San Francisco Police Force who systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals.

Pressure mounted on Warner Brothers and Eastwood to back down, but their refusal to do so resulted in a fine, reported to be around $ 60, 000 for the violation.

Warner Bros. produced a film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in 1997, directed by Clint Eastwood.

By 17 December 1970, in a Warner Brothers studio press release it was announced that Clint Eastwood would star in as well as produce the film through his Malpaso Company.

Siegel was under contract to Universal at the time, and Eastwood personally went to the studio heads to ask them to ' loan ' Siegel to Warner.

* 1997: Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall ( Malposo Records / Warner Bros. Records )

# Absolute Power ( Warner Books, 1996 ) was made into a major motion picture by Castle Rock Entertainment and starred Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman.

They settled in 1990, with Eastwood giving her a directing contract with Warner Bros. in exchange for her dropping the suit.

In 1996, Locke hired entertainment attorney Neil Papiano and sued Eastwood for fraud, alleging that he had compensated Warner Bros. for the contract.

Given that for Eastwood this was an offbeat film, Franks Wells of Warner Brothers refused to back Malpaso in the production, leaving him to turn to United Artists and producer Bob Daley.

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.

Stone's work on these cartoons was recorded in the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios ; For a period of over 10 years his music was recorded in the same room and with the same piano used by Carl Stalling for Warner Brothers animation in the 1940s and 1950s.

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" Working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Clint Eastwood to create a compelling, state-of-the-art game that brings Dirty Harry Callahan to life on next generation consoles is very exciting ", said Doug Hare, co-founder and Vice President of Production for The Collective.