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.

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.

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.

In 1992, Eastwood directed Unforgiven, a revisionist western drama for which he won an Oscar for best director, as well as Best Picture.

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.

Eastwood later spoke of the transition from a television western to A Fistful of Dollars: " In Rawhide I did get awfully tired of playing the conventional white hat.

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

In 1973, Eastwood directed his first western, High Plains Drifter, in which he starred alongside Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill,

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 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.

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 ".

Scripts existed for the film as early as 1976 under titles such as The Cut-Whore Killings and The William Munny Killings but Eastwood delayed the project because he wanted to wait until he was old enough to play his character and to savor it as the last of his western films.

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.

Eastwood delayed the project, partly because he wanted to wait until he was old enough to play his character and to savor it as the last of his western films.

Production designer Henry Bumstead, who had worked with Eastwood on High Plains Drifter, was hired to create the " drained, wintry look " of the western.

Pale Rider is a 1985 American western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars in the lead role.

This movie has plot similarities to the classic Western Shane ( 1953 ), including in its final scene, as well as previous Eastwood films featuring his Man with No Name character and his 1973 western High Plains Drifter.

* Dust Devils: a western roleplaying game modeled after Clint Eastwood films and similar darker Westerns.

* In the 1959 western, Rawhide ( S1E2 broadcast 1 Jan 59 ), starring Clint Eastwood.

In 1964, Yojimbo was remade as A Fistful of Dollars, a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first appearance as the Man with No Name.

Wooley co-starred as Pete Nolan in the CBS western Rawhide ( 1959 – 1966 ) with Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, and Paul Brinegar.

The show, about a modern western lawman who ends up in New York City, was loosely based on the Clint Eastwood film Coogan's Bluff.

A Fistful of Dollars () is a 1964 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger.

" Eastwood later spoke about the transition from a television western to A Fistful of Dollars: " In Rawhide I did get awfully tired of playing the conventional white hat.

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.

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.

John Wayne, who like Eastwood was associated with the Western genre, starred in McQ and later Brannigan.

Other films, such as those directed by Clint Eastwood, were made by professionals familiar with the Western as a criticism and expansion against and beyond the genre.

Western movies were popular at the moment, with the spaghetti westerns of Clint Eastwood breathing new life into a genre that had fallen into disrepute.

Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

According to the CBS press release for Rawhide, Universal Studios ( then known as Universal-International ) was shooting in Fort Ord when an assistant noticed Eastwood and arranged for him to meet the series ' director.

Eastwood made his first attempt at directing when he filmed several trailers for the show, although he was unable to convince producers to let him direct an episode.

The following year Eastwood found further critical and commercial success when he directed, produced, scored, and starred in the boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, playing a cantankerous trainer who forms a bond with female boxer ( Hilary Swank ), who he is persuaded to train by his lifelong friend ( Morgan Freeman ).

From the very early days of his career Eastwood was frustrated by directors ' insistence that scenes be re-shot multiple times and perfected, and when he began directing in 1970, he made a conscious attempt to avoid any aspects of directing he had been indifferent to as an actor.

Eastwood subsequently began dating Dina Ruiz, a television news anchor 35 years his junior, whom he had first met when she interviewed him in 1993.

They married on March 31, 1996, when Eastwood surprised her with a private ceremony at a home on the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.

" Eastwood also said that he was on the fence when it came to believing in God saying " I was born during the Depression and I was brought up with no specific church.

The oldest winner is Clint Eastwood who was 74 years old when he won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby.

In the summer of 2008, ITVs Trinny and Suzannah was filmed at the Bird in Eye studios when Mayor Louise Eastwood was the star of the show.

Morgan moved into a new area when he released a comedy single in December 1985, called " Thank you very very much, Mr. Eastwood ", a take on the fawning praise of his manager given after bouts by internationally successful Irish boxer Barry McGuigan, which ' featured ' lines by McGuigan, Ronald Reagan, Bob Geldof and Ben Morgan.

In 2001, the show moved to the PAX network and Peter then co-hosted the show with Dina Eastwood until 2004 when the show suspended production.

Training continued until May 1915 when the site, known also as Eastwood, was taken over by the RNAS to become a Station ( night ) in the fight against intruding Zeppelins.

Eastwood pushed for Don Siegel when he was cast in the film.

Although Eastwood was able to convince Siegel not to have Callahan toss the badge, when the scene was filmed, Eastwood changed his mind and went with the current ending.

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 ".

There have been proposals for a railway between Sydney's North Shore and the Main Northern Line since September 1920, when John Bradfield's plans were put forward for a railway between St Leonards and Eastwood.

The idea of another love interest, with a level-headed girlfriend Tobie added to the plot, was a suggestion by Sonia Chernus, an editor who had been with Eastwood when he was initially spotted for Rawhide.

9299, skipper Gareth Eastwood ) was at a point adjacent the windward jibe buoy around two kilometers offshore when the gale struck.

On having to say no to Eastwood, Leto explained: " That's a dream come true when Clint Eastwood asks you to be in his film.