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[edit] Quotations

I just changed the Outlaw Josey Wales quote to the exact wording in the movie. For proof that this is correct see the .au sound files at http://www.anesi.com/east/sounds.htm. Amelia Hunt 01:04, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Can you quote the one from after the showdown? Chief Dan says, "What about the fourth one?" And Clint says, "You were there." Trekphiler 09:11, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Britannica "Biography of the Day" 31 May

I notice that today's Biography of the Day at britannica.com is on Clint Eastwood. Courtland 22:14, 2005 May 31 (UTC)

[edit] Filmography

Should Mystic River (movie) be included in the filmography? [unsigned at 20:40, 25 July 2005 by 70.104.230.122]

I think so, along with all the others that he directed without performance. Do we just list them with no role? We could then say that he directed but did not perform in those films for which no role is given. —Theo (Talk) 21:04, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

The filmography doesn't appear to include Bronco Billy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.12.187 (talk) 22:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

What about the anti-death-penalty movie "True Crime" ? 145.23.254.155 (talk) 05:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

The movie, "Joe Kidd" is missing from the filmography. Released in 1972, Elmore Leonard wrote the screenplay and John Sturges directed. Clint Eastwood played the main character, Joe Kidd. The movie also stars Robert Duvall and John Saxon. 66.241.90.71 (talk) 02:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Allergic

I added the horse allergy (from "Biography", as I recall); not, considering his early career, spaghetti... Trekphiler 09:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Rare" 2nd Best Director Award

Of the 56 men (and they're all men) who've won a Best Director Oscar:

  • 38 have won one
  • 15 have won two
  • 2 (Capra and Wyler) won three
  • 1 (John Ford) won four.

That means 32% of Oscar-winning directors have won the award more than once. This is not "rare", but fairly common. I've amended the article. JackofOz 03:20, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I took out "He would grow up to be one of the sexiest flabby men ever." It didn't seem to fit. - anon.

[edit] The Eiger Sanction

How did this film go unrecognized? I've added a few lines about Clint Eastwood's climbing skills. Baldyhut 02:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Killing Michael Moore

Clint's remarks that he'd kill Michael Moore if Moore ever showed up at his house with a videocamera were pretty obviously made for comedic effect. I've therefore changed "...threatened to kill liberal filmmaker Michael Moore..." to "...joked that he would kill..." as the remark was clearly a joke and not an actual threat.

Considering Eastwood is a conservative Republican and friends with Heston, he may indeed have been serious. I have therefore reverted the change.

...talk about humorless reactionaries...

Oh dear. Can you not accept your hero isn't a bleeding heart liberal? Get over it.

What?? He's automatically making a serious threat to Moore, and not joking, because he isn't a "bleeding heart liberal" ?? Where did that come from?

Considering Eastwood was a friend of Charlton Heston, is known to vigorously guard his privacy and has supported Republican candidates in the past, as well as being registered as a Republican in California, we can only assume he was joking. It would be interesting if Michael Moore actually did turn up at Eastwood's house with a camera ...

[edit] Political Leaning

re: , although he described himself as a Republican in a 1997 interview.

The only 1997 interview I found referenced online was a Playboy interview where he described himself as Libertarian. I'm removing this line until a reference is provided for this interview.
- Jokermage "Timor Mentum Occidit" 04:03, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Can't seem to find that interview at this moment, but Eastwood is registered as a Republican in California and always has been.

Interestingly enough, I've found conservative websites claiming him as a Republican, and libertarian websites claiming him as a Libertarian. In this interview, he said "I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live." So he might be registered as a Republican, but he seems to think of himself as a libertarian. Can anyone provide more definate information, from relatively neutral sources? Jokermage "Timor Mentum Occidit" 23:26, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

He admitted to voting for Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, and Reagan in 1980 and 1984.

We should probably just state something that his actual affliation is ambigious though he has definate libertarian views. It might be helpful to post references where he calls himself a republican and references where he calls himself a libertarian.
Eastword's political affliation is indefinate, as he has described himself as a Libertarian in some interviews and as a Republican in other interviews. His political philosophy tends towards libertarianism. Add in links to interviews for each claim and this might do the trick. Jokermage "Timor Mentum Occidit" 21:49, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

This quote would seem to indicate Eastwood is a Republican:

"The reason I became a Republican is because Eisenhower was running. A hero from World War II, a charismatic individual, a military man, a non-attorney - even then I liked that! I was a very young person voting for the first time. A lot of people joke that a conservative is a liberal who's made his first $100,000 and then decides, wait a second, I want to save this, why are they taxing it away? Today the country's in kind of a turmoil over taxing. Being raised in the thirties, watching my parents work hard to make ends meet, with jobs scarce, and then the war years - it tends to make a person a little more fiscally conscious than if you've been born into a wealthier family. You know, if you go to most people who are self-made and ask them what their political philosophy is, usually they're a little more conservative than people who had a better start."

[edit] B-movie actor?

How exactly does a twice-Oscar-nominated leading man qualify as a "B-movie actor"?

Because he can't act.

This is simply not true. He is limited - as many of the great Hollywood stars have been - but take in the range represented by Unforgiven, Bronco Billy and The Bridges of Madison County!

He plays "Clint Eastwood" extremely well. And extremely successfully for the last forty years... 193.164.126.35 18:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC) Graeme

Like John Wayne, Eastwood is a star, not an actor.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to say he can't act. Cdwillis 21:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I think Eastwood will be remembered more for his directing than his "acting". That is what separates him from the other tough guy movie stars like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Norris, Seagal etc.

I think that Eastwood will be remembered for everything he has done. If he was not the actor that he is, then he wouldn't have been in so many movies that were a success. Think about it. In movies such as TG,TB,TU could you imagine someone like Tom Hanks or Orlando Bloom playing the role of The Man With No Name? He was THE original tough-guy.

John Wayne was THE original tough guy, and like Eastwood lasted by playing the same part in every movie. The fact is very few talented actors can become movie stars, instead we are stuck with Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger etc. Eastwood will be remembered as a good director but a talentless block of wood in the acting department. Any tough guy actor could have played the Man with No Name - Charles Bronsosn, James Coburn, Lee Marvin, etc.

Excuse me? Not an actor. He was great in his old western films.

What, playing himself? Great.

A) this is all POV B) he was in Unforgiven, Dirty Harry... hardly the work of someone who "can't act."-9/7/06

Sinatra, Wayne, Mitchum and many others could have played Harry Callahan. Unforgiven is a vastly overrated revisionist anti-western. Eastwood has very little acting ability and his delivery is so pathetically poor. Like many other untalented leading men however, he was a major star for years. Probably because Americans have no taste.

Well America produced the finest film actors of the 20th century, so perhaps our taste isn't quite so bad. And unless you forget, Eastwood was given his start in filmmaking by Europeans, in those spaghetti westerns. Maybe non-Americans don't have good taste then? As for Dirty Harry, sure; Sinatra, Wayne, Mitchum, they could have played Dirty Harry in their own distinct styles and been successful with the role. That still doesn't negate what Eastwood did with that character. And to call Unforgiven overrated, well, if that's the case then I guess 80-90% of the movies I've seen in my life have been no good, since not many of them were better than Unforgiven. Underlying point; this is all POV, and none of it belongs in the article.-9/14/06

Well America produced the finest film actors of the 20th century - whatever.

Maybe non-Americans don't have good taste then? - We don't watch stupid Eastwood westerns.

That still doesn't negate what Eastwood did with that character. - It was the director and scriptwriter, not that block of wood.

then I guess 80-90% of the movies I've seen in my life have been no good, since not many of them were better than Unforgiven - In your opinion. Unforgiven sucked ass.

Setting aside everyone's personal taste, one must remember that these things are cast by someone - the director, or a minion - so if that person wants a certain type of actor, they'll find one, even while also picking through the "big names" for sales purposes. Eastwood is by no means on the same low level as Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Stephen Seagal (my personal favourite; none of the others actually pretend to any intellectual mission!). The guy can direct, and play a certain spread of personalities. Enough. And would you all please sign your names? Quadra 17:20, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jazz Piano not mentioned in Trivia Section

There's no mention here of the fact that Clint Eastwood plays pretty good jazz piano - that's him actually playing in the scenes in Line Of Fire.

[edit] The Man With No Name

This cannot, of course, be the same character in all three films.

Presuming that Fistful is set at some unspecified time in the typical western era, Few Dollars More is certainly set many years after the Civil War. GBU is set during the Civil War and Clint looks not a day younger!

A Doctor Who sort of thing going on here? 193.164.126.35 18:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC) Graeme

I don't think you are supposed to notice things like that.

The Man With No Name is not a single man. He is supposed to represent Sergio Leone's idealized version of a gunslinger... completely ruthless and stoic with a strong sense of honor. Furthermore, since the plots of the movies are unconnected, who said they had to be in chronological order?

I heard somewhere on Sergio Leone's Forum that Leone himself said "the man with no name" is the same charactor in the "dollars" trilogy.

Just take the movies for what they are. Some people will always see it GBU as a prequel to the other movies, some will always say they are seperate movies. Just take your perception and stick with it.


[edit] Recent Editing

Hello. I did some editing on this article, hope you don't mind:

  1. I believe that the quotations paragraph, great as it was, does not belong in the article, especially when there's a whole bunch of them on wikiquote.
  2. I added one of those boxes (or whachamacallit). The thing is that I just copy/pasted one from the Harrison Ford article, and filled it out as best as I could. Please forgive me for any fuckups.
  3. I moved the pictures around a little.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to finish the job. Cheers, Fenrir2000 13:30, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Well then I will take to the proposition of finishing your correctionZach93 00:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No homepage...

Many have asked why put anything in the "homepage" section of the actors' bio box if there is no official website?

Why not? 2 reasons.

First, it saves the user a lot of wasted time on search engines looking for one.

Second, it gives the impetus for these people to get an official website!

'Nuff said?

trezjr 20:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] His mayoral election

This sentence is a little odd: "On election day, April 8, 1986, with double the voter turnout, Eastwood garnered 72.5% of the vote and was elected to a position that paid $200 per month."

"With double the voter turnout" doesn't make a lot of sense. Double the expected turnout? Double last year's turnout? It reads like something's missing from the sentence. Does anybody know exactly what was intended here? JdwNYC 18:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Any Which way?

Eastwoods "Any Which way" films may not be his most significant or best but are certainly some of his more famous.

I mean most people know about clint "Clide" his sidekick monkey who would punch anybody Clint indicated and ride alone with him in his truck. And the films have permuated into humourous pop culture far more than anything bar Dirty Harry and "The man with no name" characters. From what I can gather they were also some of his bigger hits.

Surly it deserves some reference and discussion even if the "critical" types would rather overlook them.

[edit] Trivia Items

There was a very good suggestion on Wikipedia:Trivia talk page that trivia items should be put on the article's talk page first for discussion, editing, debate, sourcing, etc ESPECIALLY questionable bits of trivia. When I saw this entry in the Eastwood trivia section, it fairly screamed to be moved here:

This seems more like just random information that doesn't even rise to level of interesting tidbit. I could understand if Letterman was a well known musician or critic and this would relate to Eastwood's love of jazz and playing, but it just seems pointless. RoyBatty42 18:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

---He is one of only two living directors (along with Miloš Forman) to have directed two Best Picture winners----

Coppola is dead? Who knew.

So does he really speak Italian, or was he just reading off the teleprompters at the Oscars? --Billdorr 04:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Very good question! At least it appears that he knows it. --Roland 09:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Acceptance speeches are not scripted (unless they made an exception in this case). I would be very surprised if he did not at least of a rudimentary knowledge of Italian considering his collaborations with so many Italian directors over the years. Perhaps someone can confirm? Zerbey 21:08, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I removed the reference until an actual source is fetched. To say is he speaks fluent Italian "… as evidenced …" from that episode is ridiculous. I am perfectly willing to believe that Eastwood has some ability with the language, but to provide on-the-spot interpreting? Let's get real until we have something vaguely more convincing. -- Andrew 01:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image problem

The current image looks bad. The article should be headed with an image from his prime. Indianapolis 21:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Doctor Eastwood

On May 11th, 2007, Clint Eastwood received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Southern California. He was subsequently referred to during the ceremonies as "Doctor Eastwood". Graduates and audience members called for him to speak when he stepped up to the podium, but he returned to his seat without speaking.

[edit] Clint Eastwood linked to Nelson Mandela rugby drama

I've heard rumours of Clint Eastwood directing an upcoming big-budget Hollywood film based on former South African President Nelson Mandela and his appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.

Can anyone (maybe the authors of this entry)confirm this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.241.52.80 (talk) 14:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DEATH

Rumors circulating that Clint has been found dead in his home —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.200.185.222 (talk) 18:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC) Clint is doing some nice movies for a zombie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.231.37.93 (talk) 23:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers priority assessment

Per debate and discussion re: assessment of the approximate 100 top priority articles of the project, this article has been included as a top priority article. Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:17, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Allergic to horses

Eastwood ironically is allergic to horses.

First of all, there's a citation needed and second of all, due to him being a vegetarien, that's not ironic at all. It would be ironic if he was allergic to vegetables, but this is not irony just a fortunate coincidence. --RasNehemia (talk) 12:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Good source

Eastwood, governor's in-law off parks boardUser:calbear22 (talk) 18:33, 19 March 2008 (UTC)