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
The film “The Alamo” revealed the history of Texas and battle of Alamo about Texas revolution, early back in the mid-1830s. The film was released in 2004, which reflected how the Texans fought bravely against Mexicans government to preserve their independence from the Mexico. Sam Houston, Jim Bowie, William Barrel Travis, Davy Crockett, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna were the main characters of the movie. Sam Houston was the governor of the Texas and used to live with Indians. Jim Bowie was the colonel with a huge knife and was opportunities. William B Travis was lieutenant colonel who divorced his wife and Jim used to call him “Buck” in the movie. Davy Crockett was renowned as a bear fighter and sharpshooter. He used to play violin and everybody
The movie Dirty Harry came out in 1971. Harry Callahan, the cop, attempts to track down a rooftop killer who calls himself Scorpio. If he does not find him fast enough, a kidnapped girl will die. Callahan goes from phone booth to phone booth on foot to make sure the kidnapped girl does not get killed. Once Callahan finds Scorpio, he abuses the murderer’s civil rights which ends with him being back on the streets. The killer gets on a school bus full of kids and hijacks it as soon as he is released causing Callahan to go after him once again. The bus driver tries to stop Scorpio, but he pulls a gun on her that he stole from the owner of the liquor store. He begins to make the kids sing while the bus driver takes him to his destination. Harry is waiting on Scorpio on top of the bridge. Scorpio started shooting at Callahan which made the bus driver faint, so Scorpio takes the wheel. Harry starts chasing Scorpio and they begin to fire at each other. Callahan shot the killer in his shoulder and was able to stop him and put the revolver to his head. He shoots Scorpio in the chest, killing him.
Spike Lee once stated "It's in my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody". Spike Lee is now known as one of the best film directors ever let me explain to you how as i show you the struggle of young spike to the great director he is today. Lee was born on March 20,1957, Atlanta Georgia, and moved to Brooklyn several years later. Spike lived in a broken home where his family was poor and Struggled to make money.
Hank Aaron was born in Mobile, Atlanta on February 5, 1934. As the third born out of all his eight siblings, Hank may not have always been seen as the most important in his family. Estella along with Herbert were the very loving parents of Hank, they always wished the best for him, but quite often he had to do things on his own. At the age of eight Hank, with his family, moved out of his birth town of Mobile to the middle-class
Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. His parents were John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman. He also grew up in a poor family. He only had one brother and one sister. Since he was young, he liked history, government and reading.
Marion Morrison, also known as John Wayne, is perhaps one of the most popular movie personalities ever. He began as a mere stagehand, but by the end of his career he had developed himself as a very successful actor, producer, and director.
On May 8, 1884, Harry Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri to John and Martha Truman. One of three children, Harry and his siblings attended most of their schooling in Independence, Missouri where he later graduated in 1901. Unlike most of our presidents to date, Harry did not head off to college following his secondary education but rather after working as a bank clerk and railroad timekeeper, he went to work with his father on their family farm.
Harry S. Truman was born May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri and grew up near Independence. The young Truman enjoyed his youth on the family farm with his younger
films such as Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, Inside Man and Love & Basketball. Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia where he attended Morehouse College and made his first
Born January 17, 1942 as Cassius Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky to Odessa Grady Clay and Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., Clay wasn’t always interested in boxing, he got into boxing at the age of 12 after somebody stole his bike, so he promised to, “ whup whoever stole it.” The policeman who Clay reported the crime to then takes young Clay under his wing and lets him meet boxing trainer Fred Stoner. After Clay met Fred Stoner, he was then on the fast track to becoming big, he would go on to win six Kentucky Golden Gloves championships, and two Amateur Athletic Union crowns.
He was born in a small town called Deniso in western Texas in the year 1890 (Hargrove 22).Then he and his family moved to a railroad town called Abilene in the state of Kansas. Here Dwight Eisenhower grew upwith his 13 other family members. (Hargrove 19). Dwight David Eisenhower is one of Americas greatest heroes with his military career to his two terms as President of the United States. Dwight Eisenhower had many accomplishments to and from West Point through World War One. Ike Eisenhower wanted to serve his country in any way he could. He found the idea of being a sailor in the U.S Navy intriguing, but when he later applied for entering he found that he was too old at the age of 20. Then after studying hard Eisenhower was accepted
Born in 1930, Eastwood began his career later than many actors. Focused on Jazz in high school, he became curious about the world of acting (Tibbetts, 1993). Naïve Eastwood was shy of 30 before his first appearance in film. In 1955, Eastwood began starring in forgettable background roles such as a sailor in a "Francis, the Talking Mule" vehicle, Francis in the Navy (1955), and an Air Force
Clint Eastwood is a star whether he is directing a movie or playing in the movie. Clint Eastwood started out as an actor before becoming a director too. He has multiple movies that are famous worldwide. The many awards he has received are examples of his amazing work. Clint Eastwood starred in movies, as well as directing them, and won a lot of awards for this.
Born March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, Quentin Jerome Tarantino did not have a very normal childhood (Fact Monster). He was raised by a single mother, who had many struggles (Fact Monster). At age 16, after completing 9th grade, he dropped out of high school (Biography Reference Bank). He absolutely
Dwayne Johnson A.K.A, “The Rock”. Born in California, Hayward. Born on March 2, 1972. Son of Rocky Johnson. He was a football player in high school, people say he was good enough to make it to the NFL, since that didn't work out