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Brief Biography of Clint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, California, as Clinton Eastwood Jr. to Clinton Sr. and Ruth Eastwood, with an older sister named Jean. After looking for work in California during the Depression, the family settled in Oakland, where he graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1948. Clint worked odd jobs, including as a hay baler, logger, truck driver and steel-furnace stoker. In 1950, he joined the military with the Army Special Services, based at Fort Ord in Monterey, California. While in the Army, he met two actors, David Janssen and Martin Milner, who convinced him to move out to Los Angeles after his military duty. Clint took a screen test and signed a contract with Universal Studios for seventy-five dollars a week. The first roles he ever had were in the films Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula. His first hit was starring on the television western Rawhide in 1959. After Rawhide he then became very popular in a string of the director Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns and the Dirty Harry Franchise.The spaghetti film were, A Fistful Of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good the Bad and the Ugly between 1964 and 1966. After returning to the United States, he directed his first film, Play Misty For Me, and starred in the leading role in 1971. His next project was a series of action movies portraying Harry Callahan, a contentious San Francisco cop with violent tendencies. The Dirty Harry series were popular with audiences and

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