Set in the 1960s, Eastwood plays a Texas Ranger in pursuit of an escaped convict ( Costner ) who hits the road with a young boy ( T. J. Lowther ).

Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector " Dirty " Harry Callahan.

* The scene involving Mary Ann at the end was adapted somewhat in the 1992 movie Unforgiven, written by David Webb Peoples and directed by Clint Eastwood, in which Hackman plays a villain who taunts his killer while lying wounded on his back after a gun battle.

Bale plays Chris, a young married professional living an ordinary life in the fictional suburb of Eastwood near London in the late 1970s.

Eastwood plays a mysterious gunfighter hired by the residents of a corrupt frontier mining town to defend them against a group of criminals.

Eastwood Field also plays home to the Youngstown State Penguins baseball team and the Inter-Tri County League Senior baseball game.

Eastwood plays a down-and-out cop who falls in love with a prostitute ( Locke ) whom he is assigned to escort from Las Vegas to Phoenix in order for her to testify against the mob.

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.

Eastwood plays acoustic and electric as well as double bass.

A team of commandos, led by Major Jonathan Smith ( Richard Burton ) and U. S. Army Ranger Lieutenant Morris Schaffer ( Clint Eastwood ), is briefed by Colonel Wyatt Turner ( Patrick Wymark ) and Admiral Rolland ( Michael Hordern ) of MI6.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Eastwood developed as a boogie-woogie pianist early on and had originally intended to pursue a career in music by studying for a music theory degree after graduating from high school.

The part of Archie Gates was originally planned for Clint Eastwood, but Russell decided to rewrite it as a younger character.

Sinatra was 55 at the time and since the character of Harry Callahan was originally written as a man in his mid to late 50s ( and Eastwood only then 41 ), Sinatra fit the character profile.

Eastwood and Petersen also originally offered the role of Leary to Robert De Niro, who turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with A Bronx Tale.

The area of Eastwood was originally granted between the years of 1790 and 1803 to marines and the NSW Corps.

The producers originally asked Anthony Hopkins and Clint Eastwood to provide the voice of the dentist, Dr. Wolfe, but they both turned the role down.

Reading it, Eastwood liked it so much that he originally intended to direct it himself.

The role of Jess Wade was originally offered to, and turned down by, Clint Eastwood.

Born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Baker was originally a miner and played for various clubs in Derbyshire as an amateur, including Eastwood Rangers.

Clint Eastwood was originally approached to play Det Sgt.

Mansewood was originally Church or ' Glebe ' land belonging to nearby Eastwood Parish Church.