Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

In September 1893 Potter was on holiday at Eastwood in Dunkeld, Perthshire.

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

He remarked that it was an honor to work with Clint Eastwood, whom he praised for his professionalism.

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.

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.

She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as Minnie Castevet, Rosemary's overly solicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, as the eccentric Maude in Harold and Maude and as the mother of Orville Boggs in the Clint Eastwood film Every Which Way but Loose.

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.

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 ".

Yojimbo was also the origin of the " Man with No Name " trend which included Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly both also starring Clint Eastwood, and arguably continued through his 1968 opus Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards.

When Leone directed Once Upon a Time in America, he commented that Robert De Niro was a real actor, unlike Eastwood.

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.

He was best known for the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 ) and five films with Clint Eastwood, including Dirty Harry ( 1971 ) and Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ).

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

Eastwood was born in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood, Sr. ( 1906 – 70 ), a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth ( Runner ) Eastwood ( 1909 – 2006 ), a factory worker.

Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry, and was raised in a working class home with his younger sister, Jeanne ( born 1934 ).

However, Eastwood was not interested.

In 1951, Eastwood entered the United States Army during the Korean War and was assigned to Fort Ord in California, where he worked as a lifeguard.

The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, ( including Best Actor for Eastwood and Best Original Screenplay for David Webb Peoples ) and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood.

" For the film Eastwood was nominated for Best Director at the 67th Golden Globe Awards.

He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

Eastwood himself was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman.

Peters has appeared in 32 feature films or television movies beginning in 1973, including Mel Brooks ' 1976 film Silent Movie ( for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award ), the musical Annie ( 1982 ), Pink Cadillac ( 1989 ), in which she co-starred with Clint Eastwood, and Woody Allen's Alice ( 1990 ).

After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

It was also nominated for four other Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director ( Eastwood ), Best Supporting Actress ( Marcia Gay Harden ), and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Brian Helgeland ).

* Robert Lorenz is an Academy Award nominated movie producer and assistant director known for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood ( Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, Space Cowboys, Changeling, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino ).

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

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.

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.

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.

A Fistful of Dollars is also notable for establishing Clint Eastwood as a star.

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

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.

For his work in the films Unforgiven ( 1992 ) and Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ), Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor.

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 ).

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.

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.

Glassberg arranged for Eastwood to have an audition with Arthur Lubin who, although impressed with Eastwood's appearance and frame, initially questioned his acting skills, remarking, " He was quite amateurish.

Lubin suggested Eastwood attend drama classes, and arranged for his initial contract in April 1954 at $ 100 ( US $ in dollars ) per week.

After signing, Eastwood was criticized for his stiff manner, his squint, and for hissing his lines through his teeth, a feature that would become a lifelong trademark.