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

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.

She had a minor but memorable role as Ma Boggs the mother of Orville Boggs ( Geoffrey Lewis ) in the Clint Eastwood films Every Which Way but Loose and Any Which Way You Can.

According to Frayling's biography of Leone, Something to Do with Death, he envisioned a contemporary adaptation of Cervantes ' 17th century novel Don Quixote with Clint Eastwood in the title role and Eli Wallach as Sancho Panza.

Eastwood had a small part as an aviator in the French picture Lafayette Escadrille and took on a featured role as an ex-Confederate renegade in Ambush at Cimarron Pass, a film which Eastwood viewed as disastrous and the lowest point of his career.

In a long sought-after break, Eastwood was cast in the supporting role of Rowdy Yates for the CBS hour-long western series Rawhide in the summer of 1958, although he was not especially happy with his role.

However, it grossed less than $ 1 million ( US $ in dollars ) and, according to Eastwood and Lang, flopped due to poor publicity and the " emasculated " role of Eastwood.

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 ".

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.

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 was then offered the role of Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, but declined as he did not want to spend weeks on location in the Philippines.

In 2011, Eastwood directed J. Edgar, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role.

Actors considered for the role The Continental Op were Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson.

Kyle Eastwood and Charlie Sheen were considered for the role of Daniel LaRusso.

After a small role in the Clint Eastwood comedy film Any Which Way You Can, comedian Lily Tomlin saw Brown at a comedy club and gave her first big break, a part in her 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman.

A dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier aspects of violence and the myth of the Old West, it stars Eastwood in the lead role, with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.

Perkins had agreed to provide the voice for the role of the dentist, Dr. Wolfe, in The Simpsons episode " Last Exit to Springfield " after Anthony Hopkins and Clint Eastwood both turned the role down, but he died before the part could be recorded.

" However, the Coens first offered the role to Clint Eastwood, but he was forced to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.

In 1974, Eastwood teamed up with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a road movie about a veteran bank robber Thunderbolt ( Eastwood ) and a young con man drifter, Lightfoot ( Bridges ).

Eastwood starred in the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve ( 2012 ), as a veteran baseball scout who travels with his daughter for a final scouting trip.

* Walt Kowalski, the protagonist, a traditional Korean War veteran in a changing world, in the 2008 film Gran Torino played by Clint Eastwood

Eastwood plays a veteran police officer teamed up with a younger detective played by Sheen ( the rookie of the title ), whose intent is to take down a German crime lord in downtown Los Angeles following months of investigation into his illegal activities.