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.

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.

In 2001, the band's eponymous debut album sold over seven million copies, and featured hits such as the songs " 19-2000 " and " Clint Eastwood ," earning them an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band.

While most of Eastwood is residential, with one or two-storey detached houses and villas, the area surrounding the town centre boasts buildings up to seven storeys high.

McKinney was also recognizable for his performances in seven Clint Eastwood films, most notably as Union cavalry commander Captain " Redlegs " Terrill in The Outlaw Josey Wales.

In 1947, after Eastwood's elevation to the Sydney Senior Competition the club purchased seven and a half acres of land a mile and a half north-east of Eastwood railway station.

After a reconciliation, he had two children with Johnson: Kyle Eastwood ( born May 19, 1968 ) and Alison Eastwood ( born May 22, 1972 ).

" Although they were mentioned in exposé articles as early as 1997, Eastwood did not present his and Reeves ' children to the public until 2002.

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.

He married Carol Anne Eastwood in 1962 in Coniston, Ontario and they had five children together-Marianne, Mark, Christine, Kelly and Chad.

Eastwood is married and has four children.

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.

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.

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.

The story was eventually adapted and directed by Clint Eastwood as the Oscar-winning film, Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ).

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.

The film was directed by Clint Eastwood, since originally slated director Ron Howard declined due to scheduling conflicts.

Eastwood and fellow non-singer Lee Marvin play gold miners who share the same wife ( portrayed by Jean Seberg ).

In 1970, Eastwood starred in the western Two Mules for Sister Sara, with Shirley MacLaine and directed by Don Siegel.

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

In the winter of 1969 – 70, Eastwood and Siegel began planning his next film, The Beguiled, a tale of a wounded Union soldier, held captive by the sexually repressed matron of a southern girl's school.

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.

The film, shot very quickly and efficiently by Eastwood and Frank Stanley, came in $ 1 million ( US $ in dollars ) under budget and was finished three days ahead of schedule.

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.

Eastwood starred in the thriller Escape from Alcatraz in 1979, the last of his films to be directed by Don Siegel.

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.

Tightrope ( 1984 ) had Eastwood starring opposite his daughter Alison, Geneviève Bujold, and Jamie Rose in a provocative thriller, inspired by newspaper articles about an elusive Bay Area rapist.

Production and filming were marred by internal disagreements between Eastwood and long-time friend and producer Fritz Manes, as well as between Eastwood and the United States Department of Defense who expressed contempt for the film.