clint eastwood

While running a Google Image Search for Clint Eastwood it became a apparent: it's very difficult to separate "Clint" from "Cool." Every image was either from "Dirty Harry," "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly," "Hang 'Em High" or "For a Few Dollars More," movies that changed our culture, and our definition of what it means to be cool. Clint is cool.

A Los Angeles College dropout, Clint Eastwood first found work in B-movies like "Tarantula" before making his big break as Rowdy Yates on the long-running and wildly popular television series "Rawhide" in 1959. The show made him a household name, and opened the door for him to appear in 1964's "Per Un Pugno di Dollari" ("A Fistful of Dollars") and 1965's "Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu" ("For a Few Dollars More"), the beginning of the glory days of the "Spaghetti Western." With the third installment of the series, "Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo" ("The Good, The Bad and the Ugly") Clint became an international star.

He went on to appear in even more classic films, like "Where Eagles Dare" and "Coogan's Bluff" in 1968, "Kelly's Heroes" in 1970, and the second iconic role he would create in 1971 as Harry Callahan in "Dirty Harry." He switched back and forth between his roles as Callahan with films like "Magnum Force" and "The Enforcer," and his hard-as-nails loner in the westerns "Pale Rider" and "The Outlaw Josey Wales."

Through the eighties Clint appeared in some less-than-stellar features, and his star was on the decline when he began to tackle more personal works like "Bird" (1988) and "Unforgiven" (1992) co-starring Morgan Freeman, the movie that would once again cement his status in Hollywood. Since then Clint has had much more success as a director than as an actor, with films like "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and "Mystic River," and now "Million Dollar Baby," which stars - alongside him - Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank.

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