by Marc Eliot
City Heat 1984. A Malpaso/Deliverance Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Fritz Manes. Director: Richard Benjamin. Screenplay: Sam O. Brown and Joseph Stinson. Story: Sam O. Brown. With Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco.
The Dead Pool 1988. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: David Valdes. Director: Buddy Van Horn. Screenplay: Steve Sharon. Story: Steve Sharon, Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw. Based on characters created by Harry Julian Fink and R. M. Fink. With Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, Evan Km, David Hunt, Michael Currie, Michael Goodwin, James Carrey.
Pink Cadillac 1989. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: David Valdes. Director: Buddy Van Horn. Screenplay: John Eskow. With Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart, Tiffany Gail Robinson, Angela Louise Robinson, John Dennis Johnston, Michael Des Barres, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Bill Moseley, Michael Champion, William Hickey, Geoffrey Lewis, Bill McKinney.
In the Line of Fire 1993. A Castle Rock Entertainment Production in association with Apple/Rose Films. Released by Columbia Pictures. Producer: Jeff Apple, Bob Rosenthal. Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Screenplay: Jeff Maguire. With Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Mahoney.
As Actor and Director
Play Misty for Me 1971. A Malpaso Production. Released by Universal. Producer: Robert Daley. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Jo Heims and Dean Riesner. With Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Clarice Taylor, Irene Hervey, Jack Ging, James McEachin, Donald Siegel, Duke Everts.
High Plains Drifter 1973. A Malpaso Production. Released by Universal. Producer: Robert Daley. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Ernest Tidyman (and Dean Riesner, uncredited). With Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Mariana Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Ted Hartley, Billy Curtis, Geoffrey Lewis, Scott Walker, Walter Barnes.
The Eiger Sanction 1975. Released by Universal. Producer: Robert Daley, Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Hal Dresner, Warren B. Murphy, Rod Whitaker, based on a novel by Rod Whitaker writing as “Trevanian.” With Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Brühl, Thayer David, Reiner Schöne, Michael Grimm, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Brenda Venus, Gregory Walcott.
The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Robert Daley. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Phil Kaufman and Sonia Chernus, based on the novel Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter. With Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman, Sam Bottoms, Geraldine Keams, Woodrow Parfrey, Joyce Jameson, Sheb Wooley, Matt Clark, John Verros, Will Sampson, William O’Connell, John Quade.
The Gauntlet 1977. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Robert Daley. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack. With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, Michael Cavanaugh.
Bronco Billy 1980. Released by Warner Bros, in association with Second Street Films. Producer: Dennis Hackin, Neal Dobrofsky. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Dennis Hackin. With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney, Sam Bottoms, Dan Vadis, Sierra Pecheur, Walter Barnes, Woodrow Parfrey, Beverlee McKinsey, Douglas McGrath, Hank Worden, William Prince.
Firefox 1982. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Alex Lasker and Wendell Wellman, based on the novel by Craig Thomas. With Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey, Kenneth Colley.
Honkytonk Man 1982. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Clancy Carlile, based on his novel, Honkeytonk Man. With Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin, Verna Bloom, Matt Clark, Barry Corbin, Jerry Hardin.
Sudden Impact 1983. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Joseph C. Stinson. Story: Earl E. Smith and Charles B. Pierce. Based on characters created by Harry Julian Fink and R. M. Fink. With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Paul Drake, Audrie J. Neenan, Jack Thibeau, Michael Currie, Albert Popwell.
Pale Rider 1985. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack. With Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny, Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath, John Russell.
Heartbreak Ridge 1986. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: James Carabatsos. With Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart, Bo Svenson, Boyd Gaines, Mario Van Peebles, Arlen Dean Snyder, Vincent Irizarry, Ramón Franco, Tom Villard, Mike Gomez, Rodney Hill, Peter Koch, Richard Venture.
White Hunter Black Heart 1990. A Malpaso/Rastar Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Peter Viertel, James Bridges, Burt Kennedy, based on the novel by Peter Viertel. With Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Marisa Berenson, Alun Armstrong, Richard Vanstone, Charlotte Cornwell, Catherine Neilson, Edward Tudor-Pole, Richard Warwick, Boy Mathias Chuma.
The Rookie 1990. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Howard Kazanjian, Steven Siebert, David Valdes. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel. With Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, Pepe Serna, Marco Rodríguez.
Unforgiven 1992. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: David Webb Peoples. With Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher, Anna Thomson.
A Perfect World 1993. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Mark Johnson, David Valdes. Screenplay: John Lee Hancock. With Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Laura Dern, T. J. Lowther, Leo Burmester, Keith Szarabajka, Wayne Dehart, Paul Hewitt, Bradley Whitford, Ray McKinnon, Jennifer Griffin, Leslie Flowers, Belinda Flowers, Darryl Cox, Jay Whiteaker, Taylor Suzanna McBride, Christopher Reagan Ammons, Mark Voges, John M. Jackson, Connie Cooper, George Orrison.
The Bridges of Madison County 1995. A Malpaso/Amblin Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Kathleen Kennedy. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese, based on the novel by Robert James Waller. With Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak, Jim Haynie, Sarah Kathryn Schmitt, Christopher Kroon, Phyllis Lyons, Debra Monk, Richard Lage, Michelle Benes, Alison Wiegert, Brandon Bobst, Pearl Faessler, R. E. “Stick” Faessler, Tania Mishler, Billie McNabb, Art Breese, Lana Schwab, Larry Loury, James Rivers.
Absolute Power 1997. Castle Rock Entertainment/Malpaso. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Karen Spiegel. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: William Goldman, based on the novel by David Baldacci. With Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert, Judy Davis, E. G. Marshall.
True Crime 1999. Malpaso-Zanuck Productions. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Tom Rooker, Lili Fini Zanuck, Richard D. Zanuck. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Larry Gross, Paul Brickman, Stephen Schiff, based on the novel by Andrew Klavan. With Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary, Bernard Hill, Diane Venora, Michael McKean, Michael Jeter, Mary McCormack, Hattie Winston, Penny Bae Bridges, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, John Finn, Laila Robins, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Erik King, Graham Beckel, Frances Fisher, Marissa Ribisi, Christine Ebersole, Anthony Zerbe, Nancy Giles, Tom McGowan, William Windom, Don West, Luci Liu, Dina Eastwood, Leslie Griffith, Dennis Richmond, Frank Sommerville, Dan Green.
Space Cowboys 2000. A Malpaso Production. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Lazar, Tom Rooker. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Ken Kaufman and Howa
rd Klausner. With Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden, William Devane, Loren Dean, Courtney B. Vance, Rade Serbedzija, Barbara Babcock, Blair Brown, Jay Leno, Nils Allen Stewart.
Blood Work 2002. A Malpaso Production. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Brian Helgeland, from the novel by Michael Connelly. With Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus, Tina Lifford, Paul Rodriguez, Dylan Walsh.
Million Dollar Baby 2004. A Malpaso/Albert S. Ruddy/Epsilon Motion Pictures Production. Distributed by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco, Tom Rosenberg, Albert S. Ruddy. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Paul Haggis, from stories by F.X. Toole (Rope Burns). With Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker, Brian F. O’Byrne, Anthony Mackie, Margo Martindale, Riki Lindhome, Michael Peña.
Gran Torino 2008. A Malpaso Production. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Bill Gerber, Robert Lorenz. Distributed by Matten Productions in association with Double Nickel Entertainment, Gerber Pictures, Malpaso Productions, Media Magik Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, Warner Bros. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Nick Schenk, from a story by Nick Schenk and Dave Johannson. With Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Brian Haley, Geraldine Hughes, Dreama Walker, Brian Howe, John Carroll Lynch, William Hill, Brooke Chia Thao, Chee Thao, Choua Kue.
As Director Only
Breezy 1973. Released by Universal. Producer: Robert Daley. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Jo Heims. With William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C. Carmel, Mari Dusay, Joan Hotchkis, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Norman Bartold, Lynn Borden, Shelley Morrison, Dennis Olivieri, Eugene Peterson.
Bird 1988. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Joel Oliansky. With Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire, James Handy, Damon Whitaker, Moran Nagler, Arlen Dean Snyder.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Arnold Stiefel. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: John Lee Hancock, based on the novel by John Berendt. With Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Alison Eastwood, Irma P. Hall, Paul Hipp, Dorothy Loudon, Anne Haney, Kim Hunter, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Herd, Leon Rippy, Bob Gunton, Michael O’Hagan, Gary Anthony Williams.
Mystic River 2003. A Malpaso Production in association with NPV Entertainment. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Brian Helgeland, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. With Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Kevin Chapman, Tom Guiry, Emmy Rossum.
Flags of Our Fathers 2006. A Malpaso Production in association with Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG. Producer: Clint Eastwood. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: William Broyles Jr., Paul Haggis. Story: James Bradley, Ron Powers. With Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, Neal McDonough, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas McCarthy, Chris Bauer, Judith Ivey, Myra Turley, Joseph Cross, Benjamin Walker, Scott Eastwood, Harve Presnell, George Hearn, Alessandro Mastrobuono, Stark Sands, George Grizzard, Len Cariou, Christopher Curry, Bubba Lewis, Beth Grant, Connie Ray, Ann Dowd, Mary Beth Peil, David Patrick Kelly, Gordon Clapp.
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006. A Malpaso Production in association with Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Tim Moore, Steven Spielberg. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Iris Yamashita. Story: Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis. With Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki, Nae, Nobumasa Sakagami, Luke Eberl, Sonny Saito, Steve Santa Sekiyoshi, Hio Abe, Toshiya Agata, Yoshi Ishii, Toshi Toda, Ken Kensei, Ikuma Ando, Akiko Shima, Masashi Nagadoi, Mark Moses, Roxanne Hart, Yoshio Iizuka, Mitsu, Takuji Kuramoto, Koji Wada.
Changeling 2008. A Malpaso Production in association with Imagine Entertainment. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Robert Lorenz. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: J. Michael Straczynski. With Angelina Jolie, Gattlin Griffith, Michelle Gunn, Jan Devereaux, Michael Kelly, Erica Grant, Antonia Bennett, Kerri Randles, Frank Wood, Morgan Eastwood, Madison Hodges, John Malkovich, Colm Feore, Devon Conti, J.P. Bumstead.
The Human Factor 2009. A Malpaso Production. Producer: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Robert Lorenz, Lori McCreary, Mace Neufeld. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: Anthony Peckham, from the book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin. With Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman.
As Producer Only
The Stars Fell on Henrietta 1995. A Malpaso Production. Released by Warner Bros. Producer: Clint Eastwood, David Valdes. Director: James Keach. Screenplay: Philip Railsback. With Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Brian Dennehy.
TELEVISION
Allen in Movieland 1955. A one-time special to promote Steve Allen’s upcoming role as Benny Goodman in Valentine Davies’s 1956 The Benny Goodman Story. In the TV show, Clint plays an orderly. His character has no name, and he has no lines.
Highway Patrol 1956. One episode, called “Motorcycle A.”
Death Valley Days 1956. Hosted by Ronald Reagan. Clint appears briefly in six episodes.
West Point Story 1957. Clint appears in one episode of this series, “The West Point Story.”
Navy Log 1958. Clint appears in one episode, called “The Lonely Watch,” as Burns.
Maverick 1959. Clint appears in one episode of this James Garner series, “Duel at Sundown,” as Red Hardigan.
Rawhide 1959–65. Clint appeared in all 217 episodes as Rowdy Yates.
Mr. Ed 1962. Clint plays himself in one episode, “Clint Eastwood Meets Mr. Ed.”
Amazing Stories 1985. Clint directed one episode, “Vanessa in the Garden.” Steven Spielberg was executive producer and writer of this episode. An Amblin Entertainment Production for television. With Sondra Locke, Harvey Keitel, Beau Bridges.
The Blues 2003. Clint directed one episode, “Piano Blues,” of Martin Scorsese’s (and several other producers’) multipart TV documentary about the blues.
AUDIO RECORDINGS
Albums
1963 Rawhide’s Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites
Singles
1961 “Unknown Girl”
1962 “Rowdy”
1962 “For You, For Me, For Evermore”
1980 “Bar Room Buddies” (with Merle Haggard), Bronco Billy soundtrack
1980 “Beers to You” (with Ray Charles)
1981 “Cowboy in a Three Piece Suit”
1984 “Make My Day” (with T. G. Sheppard), Slow Burn album
2009 “Gran Torino” (as Walt Kowalski, with Jamie Cullum)
Clint also composed the score to James C. Strouse’s Grace Is Gone (2007) and original piano compositions for In the Line of Fire.
ACADEMY AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
(Boldface denotes wins)
1992—Best Picture—Unforgiven
1992—Best Director—Unforgiven
1992—Best Actor in a Leading Role—Unforgiven
1995—Irving G. Thalberg Lifetime Memorial Award
2003—Best Picture—Mystic River
2003—Best Director—Mystic River
2004—Best Picture—Million Dollar Baby
2004—Best Director—Million Dollar Baby
2004—Best Actor in a Leading Role—Million Dollar Baby
2006—Best Picture—Letters from Iwo Jima
2006—Best Director—Letters from Iwo Jima
OTHER NOTABLE AWARDS
Kennedy Center Honors, 2000.
Honorary degree from University of the Pacific, 2006.
Nomination for a Grammy Award, Best Score Soundtrack Album
for Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media, for Million Dollar Baby, 2006.
Humanitarian Award, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) Award for Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, 2006.
California Hall of Fame (located at the California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts), inducted by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2006.
Légion d’honneur (the highest civilian distinction), France, 2007.
Jack Valenti honorary degree from University of Southern California, 2007.
Honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music at Monterey Jazz Festival, 2007.
Best Actor Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, for Gran Torino, 2008.
AUTHOR’S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This biography continues my revisionist study of what is America’s greatest and most original form of expression, the Hollywood motion picture, a nickel-and-dime novelty form of entertainment that became a billion-dollar industry even as it pushed its way into the pantheon of twentieth-century art. I study the lives of those in film I find most interesting, influential, and fundamentally responsible for defining the medium in which they have excelled. In doing so, I am reminded of Molly Haskell’s belief, which is also my own, that there are many, many ways to talk about the cinema.