By Constanza Mazzotti and Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Considered one of the great filmmakers, Clint Eastwood has acted in 72 films, directed 45 and produced 53. The San Francisco-born actor, producer, composer and director is neither ugly nor bad, the good guy celebrated 92 years of life this May 31.
Among his most legendary films are those in the "spaghetti western" genre, "For a Fistful of Dollars" (1964), "Death had a Price" (1965) and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966), with which he became one of the favorites in cinema worldwide.
The actor, whose full name is Clinton Eastwood Jr., was born in 1930 and began to consolidate his career with his first characters as Harry Callahan in the successful "Dirty Harry" (1971) and "Harry the Strong" (1973).
The nonagenarian has a very impressive career, in which he can boast of doing much of his work hand in hand with two greats of Italian film production such as Ennio Morricone ?1928-2020? composer and conductor creator of soundtracks for more than five hundred films and television series, as well as Sergio Leone ?1929-1989? who was one of the most famous directors of spaghetti western films who directed Clint Eastwood.
During the decade of the 50's after participating in secondary roles, he had his big break with a role in the television series Rawhide (1959) alongside Eric Flemimg who was the protagonist, months later, when the star of the series retired, Clint Eastwood would ascend as the main actor.
The list of films in which he has participated is very long, but the public missed seeing him in one of the greatest thrillers of all time, "James Bond", a character created by novelist Ian Lancaster Fleming, whom Eastwood refused to play because he considered that only an English actor should play one of the most famous secret agents in literature and cinema.
In the 70's, with The Seducer ?1971? he achieved great critical success and also debuted as a director with the erotic thriller Shiver in the Night ?1971? and in the same year he played the role of a policeman in "Dirty Harry", a role that made him a cultural icon and popularized the police genre.
That same decade meant for Eastwood an incessant production of films that consecrated him as an actor and director.
With such a prolific career, it is not unusual for Eastwood to have his own production company, which he founded in 1967 under the name "The Malpaso Company", now known as Malpaso Productions, where he has produced no less than 40 films, in addition to co-productions and documentaries.
Eastwood has no limits and proof of this is his incursion into music, an art he is passionate about, which is why he has composed most of the soundtracks for his films and although music was not his main career, in 2007 Eastwood received an honorary doctorate in music from the Berklee College of Music during the Monterrey Jazz Festival.
The multi-talented Clint Eastwood has not only faced dangerous situations in movies, for in 1951, while serving in the army at the age of 21, he survived a plane crash in shark-infested waters after the military plane he was a passenger in crashed into the ocean near California.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons why the actor firmly believes in finding inner peace through transcendental meditation, which he has practiced for nearly 50 years.
As if that were not enough, Clint Eastwood has made room in his busy schedule to serve his community, as he was mayor of the city of Carmel by the Sea, a picturesque town in Monterey County, in California's Bay Area, from 1986 to 1988. He won with 72 percent of the vote in his favor and is where he currently lives and even owns a pub.
A Republican, but with a progressive air, Clint Eastwood has declared himself to be in favor of equal marriage and euthanasia.
The handsome actor's life has had it all, during his youth, he was a lifeguard, paperboy, forest fireman and even a golf caddy, and during the Korean War he was a swimming instructor and lifeguard.
Clint has 176 nominations for different awards and categories to his credit, winning 154, four of them Oscars, but none of them as an actor.
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