Clinton
Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning
American film director, actor, producer, and composer. He has won
Academy Awards five times - twice each as Best Director and as
producer of the Best Picture; he received the Irving G. Thalberg
Memorial Award in 1995. While his work as a director, on recent
films like Letters from Iwo Jima and Million Dollar Baby, and also
earlier films like High Plains Drifter and The Outlaw Josey Wales,
have received a high degree of critical acclaim, Eastwood is best
known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles. Examples of these
are his performances in western films, such as in the Man with No
Name in Sergio Leone's "Dollars trilogy" of Spaghetti
Westerns, and as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan in the
Dirty Harry movies. Eastwood is currently directing Universal
Pictures' The Changeling, a period thriller from noted writer J.
Michael Straczynski and producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.
Angelina Jolie is starring in the film, with a fall 2008 ... more
