Biographic - Sunday December 2, 2018 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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In a stellar career that has spawned more than 60 years, Clint Eastwood has earned a place in a movie legend as an iconic superstar actor a brilliant director, a shrewd and savy producer and a gifted composer, and somehow he even found time in the 1980s to serve a term as mayor of carmel-by-the-sea, California. Clinton Eastwood Jr. born in San Francisco on May 31, 1930, was serving in the army when he struck up a friendship with David Janssen, the actor who would later find fame starring in "The Fugitive" tv series. Janssen helped him land a screen test that led to the movie "Revenge Of The Creature." Eastwood's big breakthrough came with the role of Rowdy Yates on the long-running tv series "Rawhide." As the show reached the end of its eight-season run, a trio of European-made westerns in which he played a nameless, bounty-hunting antihero "A Fistful Of Dollars" "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" made Eastwood a big star. The "Spaghetti Westers" opened up Hollywood's doors. From westerns such as "Hang 'em High" and "High Plains Drifter" to war movie like "Where Eagles Dare" and "Kelly's Heroes" to thrillers such as "Play Misty For Me" and "The Eiger Sanction," the hits kept coming. He even starred in the musical "Paint Your Wagon" with "Dirty Harry" a smash hit that would spawn four sequels, he created one of the most memorable characters in movie history. In the 1970's, he began to direct his own movies, and by the 1980s, he was also producing them. His directorial work has not been limited to his own starring vehicles, as the successes of "Mystic River" "Letters From Iwo Jima" and "American Sniper" attest. In 1988, his lifelong love of jazz music led Eastwood to produce the critically acclaimed Charlie Parker biopic "Bird." In 1992, his moviemaking brilliance was recognized when "Unforgiven" earned him an Oscar nomination as best actor, and landed him the best actor, and landed him the best director and best picture awards, a feat he repeated with 2004's "Million Dollar Baby. His latest project sees him produce, direct and star in "The Mule" a tale of a 90-year-old WWII veteran caught smuggling for a mexican drug cartel!

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