Birthday: May 31, 1930

Birthplace: San Francisco, California

Biography: Clinton Eastwood, Jr. is an iconic American actor, film producer, composer, and Academy Award-winning film director. Eastwood is famous for his tough guy/anti-hero roles, including Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry series and the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. Eastwood developed directing as a second career, and has, indeed, generally received much greater critical acclaim for his directing than he ever did for his acting. Eastwood developed directi... ... (read more...) ng as a second career, and has, as of 2006, directed 27 films. As a director, Eastwood has become known for high-quality dramas imbued with a pessimistic tone, such as Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and Flags of Our Fathers.