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 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.

Eastwood initially did not want to toss the badge, believing it indicated that Callahan was quitting the police department.

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.

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

Eastwood then branched out to star in the only musical of his career, Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ).

Dirty Harry essentially lifted its star Clint Eastwood out of his cowboy typecasting, and became the urban-action film's first true archetype.

There are Co-ops on Argyle Street ( A1137 ), on West Street and on Eastwood Road, heading east out of the town.

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

A heavily fictionalized account of the invasion from a U. S. military perspective is shown in the 1986 Clint Eastwood motion picture Heartbreak Ridge, in which marines replaced the actual roles of army units due to the movie's portrayal of several incompetent officers and NCOs for which the army opted out its military support of the movie.

Already having Clint Eastwood under contract, Universal thought of using it as a vehicle for the actor, but they never followed up on the initial plans and they let the rights to the script run out.

Eastwood dismissed the political outrage, claiming that Callahan was just obeying a higher moral authority, and said, " some people are so politically oriented, when they see cornflakes in a bowl, they get some complex interpretation out of it ".

Its individual team offices are directed out of PBA head offices located in Eastwood City in Quezon City.

In 1999, Eastwood and Locke agreed to settle out of court for a reportedly large amount.

The main character is based on real-life director John Huston ; at times, Eastwood can be heard drawing out his vowels, speaking in Huston's distinctive style.

Immediately after doing so, it passes a signalized intersection with IL 47 ( Seminary Avenue / Eastwood Drive ) before traveling north of the McHenry County Fairgrounds and then heading out of the Woodstock area and back into a prairie setting.

" Ebert also complimented director Eastwood mentioning how he " caresses the material as if he didn't know B movies have gone out of style.

" Variety commented that, " This film is so awful it's almost as if Eastwood is using it to find out how far he can go — how bad a film he can associate himself with ".

However, fighting between the two forced them to drop out of the project ; Eastwood and Locke replaced them.

The film's success made Eastwood a major star in Italy and he was re-hired to star in For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ), the second of the trilogy.

Time magazine drew attention to the film's wooden acting, especially on the part of Eastwood, though a few critics such as Vincent Canby and Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Eastwood's coolness in playing the tall, lone stranger.

John Wayne, who had declined a role in the film, sent a letter to Eastwood soon after the film's release in which he complained that, " the townspeople did not represent the true spirit of the American pioneer, the spirit that made America great ".

Don Siegel, the film's director, and Clint Eastwood picked Robinson for the role after seeing him in a production of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

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 ).

Eastwood has noted that the graveyard set featured in the film's finale had tombstones reading " Sergio Leone " and " Don Siegel ," intended as a humorous tribute to the two directors.

Eastwood reflected on the film's meaning, indicating " it's just an allegory ... a speculation on what happens when they go ahead and kill the sheriff and somebody comes back and calls the town's conscience to bear.

Two Mules for Sister Sara is an American-Mexican western film starring Shirley MacLaine ( billed above Clint Eastwood in the film's credits, but not on the poster ) set during the French intervention in Mexico.

One of Gorillaz's earlier singles is the name of the actor who played this film's title character, Clint Eastwood.