History Creator / ClintEastwood

In his younger days, he was very much TheCasanova. Seriously, just look at his Wikipedia entry. To quote: ''Eastwood told biographer Richard Schickel that he lost his virginity at age 14. He has fathered at least seven children by five different women and been described as a "serial womanizer". According to biographers Marc Eliot and Patrick [=McGilligan=], Eastwood always had a strong sexual appetite and had many affairs with women through the years, including actresses Catherine Deneuve, Jean Seberg, Peggy Lipton, Kay Lenz, Jamie Rose, Inger Stevens, Jo Ann Harris, Jane Brolin, Jill Banner, script analyst Megan Rose, and swimming champion Anita Lhoest. Biographers claim he has also fathered at least four children that have been aborted, and another who was given up for adoption in 1953. Biographers and friend Paul Lippman have claimed that Eastwood was particularly sexually active and promiscuous in the 1970s and that he used his apartment close to the Hog's Breath Inn which he purchased in Carmel in the early 1970s to meet young ladies for "nooners" and "five in the afternooners". According to Lippman, "Eastwood seemed to get a bang out of this kinkier side to himself and rarely concealed it, often gloated about it".''

* DullSurprise: In his early work at least - SergioLeone even said Clint only had two expressions, with and without hat.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his crusty persona, He's known as very nice and friendly to people he works with. He's also a supporter of Gay Marriage and a big animal lover.

Aside from Westerns ([[CowboyCop which his cop movies pretty much are]]) he also played in an occasional war movie of the TrappedBehindEnemyLines kind. (''KellysHeroes'', ''WhereEaglesDare''). He was also in the movie of ''{{Firefox}}'', resulting in the sequel novel being dedicated to him.

** See the YMMV page for more about Clint's MemeticBadass status

* ''TroubleWithTheCurve'' (2012)

-->--'''Clint Eastwood''', on the genre that helped shape his career.

* ''PlayMistyForMe'' (1971)
* ''HighPlainsDrifter'' (1973)
* ''TheOutlawJoseyWales'' (1976)
* ''TheGauntlet'' (1977)
* ''{{Firefox}}'' (1982)

* ''PaleRider'' (1985)
* ''HeartbreakRidge'' (1986)

* ''TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty'' (1995)
* ''SpaceCowboys'' (2000)

* ''MillionDollarBaby'' (2004)
* ''FlagsOfOurFathers'' (2006)
* ''LettersFromIwoJima'' (2006)

* ''GranTorino'' (2008)
* ''{{Invictus}}'' (2009)

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Apparently became one term mayor of Carmel, CA to allow the opening of a restaurant he couldn't do otherwise.

He soon also got a reputation for being a great director, who always finishes his movies ahead of time and with still some budget left. For the past twenty or so years he has directed almost every movie he starred in and a bunch he didn't, winning several {{Academy Award}}s for them, including 2 best pictures (''{{Film/Unforgiven}}'', ''MillionDollarBaby'') and 5 of the various acting awards. On his own acting front he changed his palette to include comedic roles (''Film/EveryWhichWayButLoose'', ''AnyWhichWayYouCan'', which believe it or not were the biggest hits of his career, along with ''BroncoBilly'' where he had some SelfDeprecatingHumor) and also romantic roles (''TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty''). In general, it can be said that he really likes to do such things, even [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing his own Image]]. ''{{Film/Unforgiven}}'' deconstructs his westerns in general and ''TheOutlawJoseyWales'' in particular, ''TheGauntlet'' deconstructs his ''DirtyHarry'' persona as early as 1977. His most recent, acting role was ''GranTorino'' (which he also directed and produced) can be seen as a comment on both his Man With No Name and Dirty Harry characters, exploring the demons of the grizzled badass grown old. He has also directed ''{{Invictus}}'', a film about the end of TheApartheidEra in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica and ''{{Hereafter}}'', an ensemble drama about people who have been touched by death. He will be returning to the screen in fall 2012 for the drama ''Trouble With the Curve'', where he will play an aging baseball scout who goes on one last recruiting trip with his daughter, despite the fact that he is going blind. The film will be the directoral debut of Eastwood's long-time producer Robert Lorenz.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: On screen, he's intimdating, rude and usually amoral with a bad temper. Offscreen, he's known to be very friendly and laidback and a pleasure to work with.

* ''{{Film/Unforgiven}}'' (1992)

* ''MysticRiver'' (2003)

* SkippyRules: The DGA has an "Eastwood Rule."

Clint Eastwood is most famous for portraying {{Badass}} machos, characters that are so cool, [[RuleOfCool their coolness drips right off the screen]]. The two most famous roles of this kind are ''DirtyHarry'' and the [[DollarsTrilogy Man With No Name]] in the SergioLeone movies. In these movies he invented and popularized the OneLiner (like the PreAssKickingOneLiner, PreMortemOneLiner, or just the generic [[BadassBoast "I'm so badass"]]-OneLiner). His Influence on the movie industry was such that without him (or his ''DirtyHarry'' to be more specific) TheEighties would have seen about a mere fourth of the action movies it actually ''did'' see...

* BrilliantButLazy: He's known for being incredibly laidback when shooting films. Tim Robbins described a day with him as "You're in no earlier than Nine. He only shoots one take and complains if he has to do. And You usually go home right after lunch". Of course, the results show that it works.

** [[SilentSnarker Also he rarely has to say anything in order to get what he thinks about something.]]

** He works on the assumption that actors do their best work if their a) spontaneous and b) relaxed.

* NeverLiveItDown: His debate with a chair at the 2012 Republican National Convention seems to be fast becoming this.

* GutturalGrowler: Good lord, he makes ChristianBale's [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Batman]] sound high-pitched.

He soon also got a reputation for being a great director, who always finishes his movies ahead of time and with still some budget left. For the past twenty or so years he has directed almost every movie he starred in and a bunch he didn't, winning several {{Academy Award}}s for them, including 2 best pictures (''{{Film/Unforgiven}}'', ''MillionDollarBaby'') and 5 of the various acting awards. On his own acting front he changed his palette to include comedic roles (''EveryWhichWayButLoose'', ''AnyWhichWayYouCan'', which believe it or not were the biggest hits of his career, along with ''BroncoBilly'' where he had some SelfDeprecatingHumor) and also romantic roles (''TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty''). In general, it can be said that he really likes to do such things, even [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing his own Image]]. ''{{Film/Unforgiven}}'' deconstructs his westerns in general and ''TheOutlawJoseyWales'' in particular, ''TheGauntlet'' deconstructs his ''DirtyHarry'' persona as early as 1977. His most recent, acting role was ''GranTorino'' (which he also directed and produced) can be seen as a comment on both his Man With No Name and Dirty Harry characters, exploring the demons of the grizzled badass grown old. He has also directed ''{{Invictus}}'', a film about the end of TheApartheidEra in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica and ''{{Hereafter}}'', an ensemble drama about people who have been touched by death. He will be returning to the screen in fall 2012 for the drama ''Trouble With the Curve'', where he will play an aging baseball scout who goes on one last recruiting trip with his daughter, despite the fact that he is going blind. The film will be the directoral debut of Eastwood's long-time producer Robert Lorenz.

He soon also got a reputation for being a great director, who always finishes his movies ahead of time and with still some budget left. For the past twenty or so years he has directed almost every movie he starred in and a bunch he didn't, winning several {{Academy Award}}s for them, including 2 best pictures (''{{Film/Unforgiven}}'', ''MillionDollarBaby'') and 5 of the various acting awards. On his own acting front he changed his palette to include comedic roles (''EveryWhichWayButLoose'', ''AnyWhichWayYouCan'', both of which were huge hits, along with ''BroncoBilly'' where he had some SelfDeprecatingHumor) and also romantic roles (''TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty''). In general, it can be said that he really likes to do such things, even [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing his own Image]]. ''{{Film/Unforgiven}}'' deconstructs his westerns in general and ''TheOutlawJoseyWales'' in particular, ''TheGauntlet'' deconstructs his ''DirtyHarry'' persona as early as 1977. His most recent, acting role was ''GranTorino'' (which he also directed and produced) can be seen as a comment on both his Man With No Name and Dirty Harry characters, exploring the demons of the grizzled badass grown old. He has also directed ''{{Invictus}}'', a film about the end of TheApartheidEra in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica and ''{{Hereafter}}'', an ensemble drama about people who have been touched by death. He will be returning to the screen in fall 2012 for the drama ''Trouble With the Curve'', where he will play an aging baseball scout who goes on one last recruiting trip with his daughter, despite the fact that he is going blind. The film will be the directoral debut of Eastwood's long-time producer Robert Lorenz.

* GutturalGrowler: Good lord, he makes Christian Bale's [[Batman]] sound high-pitched.

* {{Twitter}} His bizarre "conversation" with an empty chair representing BarackObama at the 2012 Republican convention achieved internet-meme status immediately with the creation of [[http://twitter.com/InvisibleObama Invisible Obama]] and the President himself tweeting [[http://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/241392153148915712 "This seat's taken"]].

** [[SilentSnarker Also he rarely has to say anything in order to get what he thinks about something.]]

** He works on the assumption that actors do their best work if their a) spontaneous and b) releaxed.