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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed May 31, 2023, 09:38 AM May 2023

On this day, May 31, 1930, Clint Eastwood was born.

Mon May 31, 2021: On this day, May 31, 1930, Clint Eastwood was born.

Clint Eastwood


Eastwood at the Washington, D.C., premiere of J. Edgar (2011)

Born: Clinton Eastwood Jr.; May 31, 1930 (age 93); San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation: Actor, film director, producer
Years active: 1954–present

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, composer, and producer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. His accolades include four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three César Awards, and an AFI Life Achievement Award.

An Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for his Western film Unforgiven (1992) and his sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004). His greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its action comedy sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns Hang 'Em High (1968) and Pale Rider (1985), the prison film Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the war film Heartbreak Ridge (1986), the action film In the Line of Fire (1993), and the romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995). More recent works are Gran Torino (2008), The Mule (2018), and the upcoming film Cry Macho (2021). Since 1967, Eastwood's company Malpaso Productions has produced all but four of his American films.

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On this day, May 31, 1930, Clint Eastwood was born. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP
Not a big fan! samplegirl May 2023 #1
Known in my home for just one film bucolic_frolic May 2023 #2

bucolic_frolic

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2. Known in my home for just one film
Wed May 31, 2023, 10:05 AM
May 2023

"Where Eagles Dare"

There's a string of articles online about how it was made. Didn't jive too well with Richard Burton. Many of his speaking lines handed off to Burton. Went motorcycling with Ingrid Pitt. Not really mentioned much in the extensive YouTube interviews with the last surviving cast member - Derren Nesbitt.

How did they never run out of bullets or explosives?

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