Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is a retired American film actor, director, producer, composer, and former politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series "Rawhide" (1959–65), Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns ("A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More," and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly") in the 1960s, and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ("Dirty Harry," "Magnum Force," "The Enforcer," "Sudden Impact," and "The Dead Pool") during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with several others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). These films in particular, as well as others including "Play Misty for Me" (1971), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "Pale Rider" (1985), "In the Line of Fire" (1993), "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), and "Gran Torino" (2008), have all received commercial success and/or critical acclaim. Eastwood's only comedies have been "Every Which Way but Loose" (1978) and its sequel "Any Which Way You Can" (1980); despite being widely panned by critics they are the two highest-grossing films of his career after adjusting for inflation. Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed films in which he did not appear such as "Mystic River" (2003) and "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and "Changeling" (2008), which received Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received considerable critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were panned in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967 Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood has seven children by five women, although he has only married twice. An audiophile, Eastwood is also associated with jazz and has composed and performed pieces in several films along with his eldest son, Kyle Eastwood. On June 1, 2026, his retirement was confirmed by his son, Kyle Eastwood.

Filmography

• 2026Norwood, Where Legends Were Born — Archive / Himself
• 2024Juror #2 — Producer, Director
• 2023Eastwood Symphonic — Self - Presenter, Music
• 2023Jigarthanda DoubleX — Thanks
• 2021Cry Macho — Mike Milo, Director, Producer
• 2019Richard Jewell — Director, Producer
• 2018Indian Horse — Executive Producer
• 2018The 15:17 to Paris — Producer, Director
• 2018The Mule — Earl Stone, Director, Producer
• 2017Short Cuts: Pale Rider — Co-Director, Author
• 2016Sully — Director, Producer
• 2015Anything Is Possible — (voice)
• 2014American Sniper — Church Goer (Uncredited), Director, Producer
• 2014Jersey Boys — Director, Producer
• 2012L'album secret de Clint Eastwood
• 2012Trouble with the Curve — Gus Lobel, Producer
• 2011J. Edgar — Director, Producer, Original Music Composer
• 2011Reconciliation: Mandela's Miracle
• 2010Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way — Executive Producer
• 2010Hereafter — Director, Original Music Composer, Producer
• 2009Gran Torino: Manning the Wheel — Walt Kowalski
• 2009Invictus — Director, Producer
• 2009Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2008Changeling — Director, Producer, Original Music Composer
• 2008Gran Torino — Walt Kowalski, Producer, Director
• 2008You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story — Narrator
• 2007Grace Is Gone — Original Music Composer
• 2007In the Valley of Elah — Thanks
• 2006Flags of Our Fathers — Director, Original Music Composer, Producer
• 2006Letters from Iwo Jima — Producer, Director, Story
• 2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That — Self, Executive Producer
• CMT Insider
• 2004Million Dollar Baby — Frankie Dunn, Original Music Composer, Director, Producer
• 2003Mystic River — Director, Producer, Original Music Composer
• 2003Piano Blues — Self, Director
• The Blues — Producer, Director
• 2002Blood Work — Terry McCaleb, Director, Producer
• 2001The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
• 2000Space Cowboys — Frank Corvin, Producer, Director
• 1999True Crime — Steve Everett, Producer, Director
• 1997Absolute Power — Luther Whitney, Producer, Director
• 1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil — Director, Producer
• 1997Traveller — Thanks
• 1995Amazing Stories: The Movie IV — Director
• 1995Casper — Clint Eastwood (uncredited)
• 1995The Bridges of Madison County — Robert Kincaid, Director, Producer, Main Title Theme Composer, Screenplay
• 1995The Stars Fell on Henrietta — Producer
• 1994Don't Pave Main Street: Carmel's Heritage — Narrator
• 1993A Perfect World — Chief Red Garnett, Director, Writer
• 1993In the Line of Fire — Frank Horrigan
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1992Unforgiven — William Munny, Director, Producer
• 1990The Rookie — Nick Pulovski, Director
• 1990White Hunter, Black Heart — John Wilson, Director, Producer
• 1989Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend — Host
• 1989Pink Cadillac — Tommy Nowak
• 1988Bird — Director, Producer
• 1988The Dead Pool — Insp. Harry Callahan
• 1988Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser — Executive Producer
• 1986Heartbreak Ridge — Gunnery Sgt. Tom 'Gunny' Highway, Producer, Director
• 1986Ratboy — Executive Producer
• Amazing Stories — Director
• 1985Pale Rider — Preacher, Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1985Vanessa in the Garden — Director
• 1984City Heat — Lieutenant Speer
• 1984Tightrope — Wes Block, Producer, Co-Director
• 1983Sudden Impact — Insp. Harry Callahan, Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 1982Firefox — Mitchell Gant, Director, Producer
• 1982Honkytonk Man — Red Stovall, Director, Producer
• 1980Any Which Way You Can — Philo Beddoe
• 1980Bronco Billy — Bronco Billy, Director
• 1979Escape from Alcatraz — Frank Morris
• 1978Every Which Way but Loose — Philo Beddoe
• The South Bank Show
• 1977The Gauntlet — Ben Shockley, Director, Writer
• 1976The Enforcer — Insp. Harry Callahan
• 1976The Outlaw Josey Wales — Josey Wales, Director, Screenplay
• 1975The Eiger Sanction — Jonathan Hemlock, Director
• Flick Flack
• 1974Thunderbolt and Lightfoot — Thunderbolt
• 1973Breezy — Man at Marina (uncredited), Director
• 1973High Plains Drifter — The Stranger, Director, Writer
• 1973Magnum Force — Insp. Harry Callahan
• 1972Joe Kidd — Joe Kidd, Executive Producer
• 1971Dirty Harry — Harry, Executive Producer, Screenplay
• 1971Play Misty for Me — Dave, Director
• 1971The Beguiled — John McBurney, Executive Producer, Screenplay
• 1971The Beguiled: The Storyteller — Self, Director
• 1970Kelly's Heroes — Sergeant First Class Kelly
• 1970Two Mules for Sister Sara — Hogan
• 1969Paint Your Wagon — "Pardner"
• 1968Coogan's Bluff — Coogan, Executive Producer, Screenplay
• 1968Hang 'em High — Marshal Jed Cooper
• 1968Where Eagles Dare — Lt. Morris Schaffer
• 1967The Witches — Carlo / Charlie (segment "Una sera come le altre")
• 1966The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Blondie
• 1966The Magnificent Stranger — Rowdy Yates
• 1965For a Few Dollars More — Manco
• 1964A Fistful of Dollars — Joe
• Mister Ed
• Rawhide — Rowdy Yates
• 1958Ambush at Cimarron Pass — Keith Williams
• 1958Lafayette Escadrille — George Moseley
• 1957Escapade in Japan — Dumbo Pilot
• Maverick — Red Hardigan
• 1956Away All Boats — Corpsman (uncredited)
• 1956Never Say Goodbye — Will
• 1956Star in the Dust — Tom - Ranch Hand (uncredited)
• 1956The First Traveling Saleslady — Jack Rice
• West Point
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Newsman (uncredited)
• 1955Francis in the Navy — Jonesey
• Highway Patrol — Joe Keeley
• 1955Lady Godiva of Coventry — First Saxon
• Navy Log
• 1955Revenge of the Creature — Jennings (uncredited)
• 1955Tarantula — Jet Squadron Leader (uncredited)
• Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell
• The Gauntlet — Producer

Appearances as themselves (133)

• 2025Clint Eastwood : la légende — Self
• 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self
• 2022Betty White: A Celebration — Self
• 2022Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Ennio — Self
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America — Self
• 2022Why on Earth — Self
• Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Self
• 2021Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2021Eastwood: The Life of a Hollywood Legend — Self
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Actor
• 2018Die Clint Eastwood Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Marisol: Sergio Leone's Madonna in the West — Self (archive footage)
• My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman — Self
• 2018Sad Hill Unearthed — Self - Actor (1966)
• 2018Sergio Leone, une Amérique de légende — Self (archive footage)
• 2017John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• The True Story of... — Self (archive footage)
• 2015One Soldier's Story: The Journey of American Sniper — Self
• 2015Tab Hunter Confidential — Self
• 2015The Making of 'American Sniper' — Self
• 2014Jean Seberg Forever — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• 2013Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck — Self
• 2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story — Self
• 2013Milius — Self
• 2013Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot — Self
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2011Clint Eastwood's West — Self
• 2011Kurosawa's Way — Self
• 2010Reel Injun — Self
• 2010The Eastwood Factor — Self
• 2009Gran Torino - Driving the Dream — Self
• 2009Gran Torino - The Eastwood Way — Self
• 2009Gran Torino: Next Door — Self
• 2009Vittorio D. — Self
• 2008A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry — Self
• 2008An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' — Self
• 2008The Business End: Violence in Cinema — Self
• 2008The Craft of Dirty Harry — Self
• 2008The Evolution of Clint Eastwood — Self
• 2008The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry — Self
• 2008Wisdom — Self
• 2007Cannes: All Access — Self
• 2007Clint Eastwood, le franc-tireur — Self
• 2007Fog City Mavericks — Self
• 2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project — Self
• 2007Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema — Self
• 2007Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters from Iwo Jima' — Self
• 2007Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends — Self
• 2006Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer — Self
• 2005Born to Fight — Self
• 2005James Lipton Takes on Three — Self
• 2005Pennis from Heaven — Self
• 2005The Spaghetti West — Self
• 2004Leone's West — Self
• 2004Mystic River: Beneath the Surface — Self
• 2003A Decade Under the Influence — Self
• 2003Italian Kings Of B — Self
• 2003Mystic River: From Page to Screen — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2002All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger — Self
• 2002Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' — Self
• 2002Eastwood... A Star — Self
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Iron and Beyond — Self - Actor & Director
• 2002Sergio Leone - C'era una volta il sogno americano — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Dirty Harry: The Original — Self - Actor
• 2001Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me' — Self
• 2001The Beguiled, Misty, Don & Clint — Self
• 2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows — Self
• 2000Kurosawa — Self
• 2000Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone — Self
• 1999Forever Hollywood — Self
• 1999Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales — Self
• The Directors — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self - Guest
• 1998Junket Whore — Self
• Parkinson — Self
• 1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western — Self
• 1997Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall — Self
• 1997Eastwood on Eastwood — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• 1995One Hundred and One Nights — Self - in Cannes
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
• 1994A Century of Cinema — Self
• 1994Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1993Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary — Self
• 1992Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' — Self
• 1991Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey — Self
• 1991Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. — Self
• 1990Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration — Self
• Stars 90 — Self
• 1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood — Self
• 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self
• 1986All Star Party for Clint Eastwood — Self
• American Masters — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• 1982Clint Eastwood: Director — Self
• Na sowas! — Self
• 1980Don Siegel: Last of the Independents — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
• Please Turn the Page — Self
• 1977The Man with No Name — Self
• 1976Eastwood In Action — Self
• 1976Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• 1973The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today — Self
• 1971Directed by John Ford — Self (2006)
• 1971Dirty Harry's Way — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• 1969No Name City — Self
• 1968On Location: Where Eagles Dare — Self
• 1968The Movie Orgy — Self (archive footage)
• The Danny Kaye Show — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• 1959Disneyland '59 — Self
• 1955Allen in Movieland — Self- Orderly
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Accepting Award for Sean Penn, Self - Nominee, Self - Winner