Clint Eastwood

Perhaps the icon of macho movie stars, Clint Eastwood has become a standard in international cinema. He was born in 1930 in San Francisco, to Margaret Ruth (Runner), a factory worker, and Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a steelworker. Eastwood briefly attended Los Angeles City College but dropped out to pursue acting. He found bit work in such B-films as A Vingança do Monstro (1955) and Tarântula, a Aranha Gigante (1955) until he got his first breakthrough in the long-running TV series Rawhide (1959). As Rowdy Yates, he made the show his own and became a household name around the country.

Eastwood found bigger and better things in Italy with the spaghetti westerns Por Um Punhado de Dólares (1964) and Por Mais Alguns Dólares (1965), but it was the third installment in the trilogy where he found one of his signature roles: O Bom, o Mau e o Vilão (1966). The movie was a big hit and brought him instant international recognition. He followed it up with his first American-made western, À Sombra da Forca (1968), before playing second fiddle to Richard Burton in the World War II epic O Desafio das Águias (1968) and Lee Marvin in the unusual musical Os Maridos de Elizabeth (1969). In Os Abutres Têm Fome (1970) and Heróis por Conta Própria (1970), Eastwood combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor.


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