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 script was worked on by Sonia Chernus and producer Bob Daley at Malpaso and Eastwood himself paid some of the money to obtain the screen rights.

The rights to the song " Misty " were obtained after Eastwood saw Garner at the Concord Music Festival in 1970, and he later paid $ 2, 000 for the use of the song " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " by Roberta Flack.

* Clint Eastwood appears in a 1955 first season episode called " Motorcycle A "; he was paid $ 80. 00.

Clint Eastwood and Universal paid $ 25, 000 to use the song in the film.

Eastwood was paid $ 6 million for directing and starring in the film.

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

In the show's first season Eastwood earned $ 750 ( US $ in dollars ) an episode.

All the films were commercially successful, particularly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which eventually earned $ 8 million ( US $ in dollars ) in rental earnings and turned Eastwood into a major film star.

The film earned Eastwood a fee of $ 400, 000 ( US $ in dollars ) and 25 percent of its net box-office takings.

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.

The film, shot very quickly and efficiently by Eastwood and Frank Stanley, came in $ 1 million ( US $ in dollars ) under budget and was finished three days ahead of schedule.

Although the film was a major success after release, grossing $ 58. 1 million ( US $ in dollars ) in the United States ( a record for Eastwood ), it was not a critical success.

However, Bird was a commercial failure, earning just $ 11 million, which Eastwood attributed to the declining interest in jazz among black people.

Eastwood filed for divorce in 1979 after another long separation, but the $ 25 million divorce settlement was not finalized until May 1984.

Pressure mounted on Warner Brothers and Eastwood to back down, but their refusal to do so resulted in a fine, reported to be around $ 60, 000 for the violation.

Its earnings of more than $ 13 million on its opening weekend was the best ever opening for an Eastwood film.

SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan ( Clint Eastwood ) finds a ransom message demanding the city pay him $ 100, 000.

Meticulous planning and efficient directorship by Eastwood saw the film fall nearly $ 50, 000 short of its $ 1 million budget, and the film was completed four or five days ahead of schedule.

Eastwood's sacking of Kaufman resulted in Eastwood being fined ( reported to be around $ 60, 000 ) from the Directors Guild of America, who subsequently passed new legislation reserving the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging a director and replacing him with himself.

Eastwood received a salary of $ 800, 000 while Burton received $ 1, 200, 000.

Unable to pay the assessment ($ 27, 000 ) on his stock, Eastwood was forced to relinquish his stake in the PL & P Corporation.

Ram Lal receives a call from Mr. Clint Eastwood, apparently secretary to American President Bill Clinton, offering $ 1, 000, 000 for assistance with the " Monica Case ".