Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, Academy Award winning film director, film producer and composer. Eastwood is famous for his "tough guy" roles, including Dirty Harry and the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. As a director, Eastwood has become known for high-quality dramas imbued with a pessimistic tone, such as Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby. Clint Eastwood - Early life. Born at St. Mary's Hospital in San Fran ...

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Clint Eastwood is the name used by the character Marty McFly in the movie Back to the Future III. Stephen King has also publicly stated in interviews, as well as some forewards and afterwords for the respective books, that his inspiration for Roland Deschain, A.K.A Roland of Gilead, the Gunslinger in his popular The Dark Tower opus, comes from Clint Eastwood. He also says that Roland is meant to embody a gritty, melancholy version of Eastwood's "The Man With No Name" persona from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. 'Clint Eastwood' i ...

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Eastwood began work as an actor, appearing in B-films such as Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula and Francis in the Navy. In 1959, he got his first break with the long-running Television series, Rawhide. As Rowdy Yates, he made the show his own and became a household name across the country. But Eastwood found bigger roles with Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) in 1964, and soon followed it with For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più) (1965). In ...

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A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari in Italy, and officially on-screen in the U.S. as simply Fistful of Dollars) is a 1964 film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood. Released in the United States in 1967, it initiated the popularity of the Spaghetti western film genre. It was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, also starring Eastwood. Collectively, the films are commonly known as "The Dollar(s) Trilogy". In the U.S., the Unite ...

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Two Mules for Sister Sara is a western movie starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine. It was filmed in 1970 and directed by Don Siegel. Two Mules for Sister Sara - Story. The film opens with its star saving a naked woman from being gang-raped. He's more than a little surprised when the attractive woman, Sister Sara (Shirley McLaine), dons a habit. It seems she's deeply committed to a group of Mexican revolutionaries fighting against the French. Hogan agrees to escort her to the camp, sin ...

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Blondie may mean Blondie (band), a band based in New York City, active since the 1970s. Blondie (comic strip), a long-running newspaper comic strip Blondie (film), a 1938 movie based on the comic strip. The movie was followed by a number of sequels until the 1950s. Blondie (Bloom County), a minor character from the 1980s comic strip Bloom County Blondi, Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd Dog Nickname of Clint Eastwood's character in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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DARE song - UK releases. Single released August 29, 2005 by Parlophone CD1 CDR6668 "DARE" (featuring Shaun Ryder) – 4:04 "Clint Eastwood" (featuring De La Soul and Bootie Brown, live at Sarm Studios, June 2005) – 5:43 CD2 CDRS6668 "DARE" (featuring Shaun Ryder) – 4:04 "Highway (Under Construction)" "DARE (Soulwax Remix)" DVD DVDR6668 See also:

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Clint Eastwood is a close friend to Flack - he used one of her songs in his first directoral debut Play Misty for Me and collaborated again in 1983 for the end music in the Dirty Harry film Sudden Impact. ...

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As a prominent New York landmark, the Metlife Building has been featured in numerous movies, including "Coogan's Bluff" in which Clint Eastwood's character arrives in city by helicopter, the American version of Godzilla as its middle body is destroyed, after Godzilla storms Grand Central Station, in the main titles of the HBO presentation of Angels in America, and at the end of Antz. The movie Hackers also features the building, and in a strange continuity error, features the Pan Am logo in the ...

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In the early 1960s he began to get small parts in British film and TV, in the mid 1960s getting notable roles in horror films with Christopher Lee such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964), and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). His first great successes came with the three war films The Dirty Dozen in 1967 with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, in 1970 as the lead Capt. 'Hawkeye' Pierce in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H and as tank commander Sgt. Oddball in Kelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood and Tel ...

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Gorillaz album - Original album. "Re-Hash" (Gorillaz) – 3:38 "5/4" (Gorillaz) – 2:40 "Tomorrow Comes Today" (Gorillaz) – 3:12 "New Genious (Brother)" (Gorillaz) – 3:57 "Clint Eastwood" (Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Gorillaz) – 5:42 "Man Research (Clapper)" (Gorillaz) – 4:29 "Punk" (Gorillaz) – 1:36 "Sound Check (Gravity)" ( ...

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Born in Los Angeles, California, Penn started acting at the age of 12 at the Loft Studio and made his film debut in 1979's Charlie and the Talking Buzzard. In 1983, he was featured in Francis Ford Coppola's youth drama Rumble Fish and appeared in a small role in the high school football drama All the Right Moves starring Tom Cruise. He also appeared in the hit dance musical Footloose in 1984, played a villain in the Clint Eastwood western Pale Rider (1985), and co-starred with his brother, Sean, and mother Eileen ...

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Homer rents the family the movie Paint Your Wagon. He and Bart expect to see a violent Western starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood; the truth is, it is a musical. This causes Homer to dispose the tape and condemn singing, but Marge says that Homer often sings. Ultimately, this allows clips of the following songs from these episodes to be shown: "Baby on Board" from "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"; "We Put the Spring in Springfield" from "Bart After Dark"; "Springfield, Springfield" from "Boy Scout ...

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"Tie Your Mother Down" was written by Brian May, who wrote the title only as a guide to the guitar riff. When he played it for the band, Mercury told him the lyric was perfect and not to change it. May completed the song by expanding on the theme of teenage rebellion against in the in-laws. The Times newspaper would then call it, "Sheer bloody poetry!" The mumbled lyrics at the end of "Drowse" are Roger Taylor saying, "I think I'll be Clint Eastwood; Jimi Hendrix, he was good. Let's t ...

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It won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Brandon De Wilde), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Palance), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay. The original film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Shane was remade as a television series in 1966, starring David Carradine. Clint Eastwood directed a semi-remake of Shane, called Pale Rider ...

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Ben Shockley (Clint Eastwood), a cop from Phoenix, is well on his way to becoming a down-and-out when he is given the task to escort witness Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) from Las Vegas. Mally soon reveals herself to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties and is in possession of incriminating information concerning a high figure in society. Shockley's suspicions are roused when the transport vehicle is bombed and Mally's house is fired upon. The two are forced to face the truth and discover their own inner strengths as they fight ...

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The story is about a wisecracking gambler 'Bret Maverick' (Mel Gibson), who is attempting to raise $25,000, the entry money needed for a major poker contest. Besides wanting to win the poker championship for the money, he also wants to prove, once and for all, that he is 'the best'. However, complications keep getting in the way. The movie opens with him being held on a noose tied to a tree (slightly reminiscient of the opening for the Clint Eastwood movie Hang 'Em High) and supported only by his horse, Ollie. The bad guy, Angel (play ...

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Fred Ward became an actor after studying at New York's Herbert Berghof Studio and in Rome. While in Italy he dubbed Italian movies and worked as a mime until he made his debut in two Roberto Rossellini films. Upon returning stateside in the early '70s, Ward spent time working in experimental theater and doing some television work. He made his first American film appearance playing a truck driver in Ginger in the Morning (1974). His first major role came in the Clint Eastwood vehicle Escape from Alcatraz (1979) as fellow escapee John Anglin. He was also notable as a violent National Guardsman in Walter ...

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This cartridge was made notorious through its supposed use by the "Dirty Harry" character in the Clint Eastwood film of the same name. However, it was not then and is not now "the most powerful handgun [cartridge] in the world." Nor is it in any realistic sense a practical police cartridge, though some persons do favor it for personal protection purposes. In addition the .44 Magnum was not even used by Clint Eastwood when filming. The actual gun used was the Model 25 in .45 Lon ...

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