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Clint Eastwood
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Who Is Clint Eastwood?
Clint Eastwood got his big break with a starring role on the television program Rawhide.
Biography clint eastwood actor
He then became immensely popular by portraying tough characters in a string of Sergio Leone movie Westerns and the Dirty Harry franchise. Eastwood has since earned widespread praise for directing such Academy Award-winning films as Unforgiven, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby.
Early Life and Career
Eastwood was born Clinton Eastwood Jr.
on May 31, , to Clinton Sr. and Ruth Eastwood, in San Francisco, California. He has one younger sister, Jeanne. After traveling and looking for work throughout California during the Depression, the family settled in the Bay Area city of Piedmont.
Eastwood attended Piedmont High School and then Oakland Technical High School, graduating in
Eastwood worked odd jobs during and after high school, with stints as a hay baler, logger, truck driver and steel-furnace stoker.
In , he was drafted into the U.S.