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.

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.

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

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 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.

Eastwood played the role of a veteran thief who witnesses the Secret Service cover up of a murder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

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

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