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Clint Eastwood
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Director, Producer, Actor
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May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, CA
Biography:With his rugged good looks and icon status, "Clint Eastwood" was long one of the few actors whose name on a movie marquee could guarantee a hit. Less well-known for a long time (at least until he won the Academy Award as Best Director for "Unforgiven"), was the fact that Eastwood was also a producer/director, with an enviable record of successes. Born May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, Eastwood worked as a logger and gas-station attendant, among other things, before coming to Hollywood in the mid-'50s. After his arrival, he played small roles in several Universal features (he's the pilot of the plane that napalms the giant spider at the end of "Tarantula" [1955]) before achieving some limited star status on the television series "Rawhide". Thanks to the success of three Italian-made "Sergio Leone" Westerns -- "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), "For a Few Dollars More" (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the... Full Biography
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