He also became involved in directing films by establishing his own production company, Malpaso. In Eastwood starred in "Gran Torino", and directed the film "Invictus".
In , he directed the film "Hereafter", and in he was the director of "J. Edgar", the film about the life of J. Edgar Hoover. He did, however, receive considerable recognition for being awarded several awards for film directing, as well as being awarded the Cecil B. Eastwood received several other awards, including three honorary degrees. The honorary degrees were awarded by the University of the Pacific in , by the University of Southern California in , and by the Berklee College of Music.
In , he received the honorary Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in acting. Eastwood's next biographical efforts, The to Paris and The Mule , both hit theaters in to mixed reviews, though the latter enjoyed a solid showing at the box office. Next up was Richard Jewell , based on the story of the security guard who discovered a bomb at the Summer Olympics, only to find himself at the center of an FBI investigation.
Along with his highly successful Hollywood career, Eastwood has tried his hand at politics. In he was elected mayor of Carmel, California, and served two years. Eastwood is also known for being outspoken about his political views. Although he registered as a Republican early in his career, he has embraced Democratic support of gun-control laws and same-sex marriage, and in recent years has portrayed himself as a Libertarian.
The actor made headlines when he spoke at the Republican National Convention in support of its candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
During his narrative, Eastwood addressed an empty chair next to him, which seated an imaginary President Barack Obama , and said it was time for him to step aside. At one point during the unusual speech, Eastwood pretended that Obama was speaking to him: "What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that to himself. Married twice, Eastwood has also been involved in several high-profile affairs. He was married to Maggie Johnson from to , with whom he had two children, Kyle b.
During that time, he also had daughter Kimber b. Beginning in , Eastwood became romantically involved with co-star Sondra Locke, a relationship that ended bitterly with a palimony suit in While still living with Locke, he had two children with Jacelyn Reeves, Scott b.
It has long been a suppressed piece of information that Clint Eastwood is in fact the son of comedy legend Stan Laurel. Top Fact Checks. View all. Perhaps if Mr Schickel and his publishers felt the market demanded a weighty volume, then they should have adopted the expedient of leaving every alternate chapter blank in order to signify our hero gazing slit-eyed, with cigarillo clamped in the corner of his mouth, at a distant prospect of hills, real or imaginary.
In the event, lengthy passages are devoted to analysing and explaining the films, with a desultory narrative line threaded through them giving us the biographical details of a rather secretive and private man who always seems to have gone his own way.
The family moved around a lot, but this peripatetic lifestyle seems to have suited Clint and he had quite a happy childhood. As he went through his teenage years, he showed very little interest in formal education, his two main passions in life being motor cars and jazz.
Although tall and handsome, he suffered from a killing shyness - or perhaps it was that he didn't suffer fools gladly. Whatever: he got along with people, stayed on the periphery of things and only drew attention to himself when he lost his temper - which appears to have been ferocious. Without making any great effort at it, he drifted into acting, got a contract with Universal Pictures, married nice, companionable.
Maggie and made no waves either in his personal or working life. Later, he was to tell an interviewer that he "wouldn't make any impact until my thirties. I was twenty-four then, looked eighteen and still had a certain amount of living to do. He got his first role in a B-picture called Revenge of the Creature as a lab assistant who has to account for a missing rat - "It's my considered opinion that rat number four is sitting inside that cat" - and his first billing in Francis in the Navy, in which he played third lead to Donald O'Connor and a talking mule.
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