He's been a paper mover, a grocer's apprentice, a forest firefighter: who is Clint Eastwood?

Eastwood was then commissioned as a swimming instructor in the army. Here is his story:

Even though Clint Eastwood has reached the peak of wealth, success, and fame with his $375 million fortune and 4 Oscar awards, he continues to produce.

Eastwood, who draws his life energy from work, is 93 years old.

April 2023

93-year-old veteran filmmaker Clint Eastwood is preparing to shoot the last movie of his career. Two Oscar-winning filmmakers, who have produced more than 70 films as actors and nearly 50 films as directors, will shoot their latest film, which is said to be "Juror #2/2", for Warner Bros., with whom they have been working since 2008.

Eastwood most recently directed and starred in 2021's "Cry Macho." The thriller "Juror #2" will tell the story of a juror who is involved in a murder and tries to manipulate the jury to avoid punishment. It's unclear whether Eastwood will write and direct the movie, though. A young Hollywood star is said to be considered for the lead role.

For those who are curious about the process of Clint Eastwood, who is preparing to go on the set for his last movie, to become a legend in the cinema, and his private life, where he became famous for his relationships with many women, from the stewardess to the mayor, here is his story:

Real name; Clinton Eastwood. (Eastwood, a former coal mining town in England.)

Father: Clinton Eastwood, who worked temporary jobs during the 'Great Depression'. (Shares the same name as his father)

Mother: Ruth Wood, who worked at IBM (she married John Belden Wood in 1972, after divorcing Clinton Eastwood in 1970.)

Born in San Francisco on May 31, 1930, Clint Eastwood was born 5.2 Kg, the nurse at the hospital named his hero 'Samson', who became legendary with the power of the Israelites. However, this name was not accepted by his family.

After graduating from technical school, Clint Eastwood worked as a lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery apprentice, and forest firefighter. Clint Eastwood, who was enlisted when the Korean War broke out, was not sent to the front because of his relationship with the high-ranking commander's daughter, Maggie Johnson. Eastwood was then commissioned as a swimming instructor in the army.

After leaving the military, Clint Eastwood began studying business administration at the City College of Los Angeles at the request of Maggie Johnson.

Clint Eastwood, who did not listen to the advice of his school friends to become an actor, applied to Universal Studios to get rid of the intense pressure.

He believed that his application would not be accepted.

Say to your friends, 'Cut it out now. He would say, 'Look, it doesn't work', thus he would get rid of the pressure.

The plan didn't work.

Universal Studios accepted his application immediately and offered a good salary. Moreover, the studio paid for the drama lessons, which was $100 per week.

Due to his small role in his first movie, Clint Eastwood's name was not included in the poster.

He started acting in 1955 with a small role in the science fiction movie 'Revenge of the Black Lake Monster'.

However, studios wouldn't cast Clint Eastwood in big movies because of the way he talked.

He was uttering the words he had stressed one by one rather harshly and gloomily. The studios did not like the unusual tone of his voice because he was speaking through his teeth, and he was supposed to be asked to correct this defect with diction lessons.

The headstrong Clint Eastwood refused to take a diction class with the 'I'm like this if you want' attitude.

The 12 films in which Clint Eastwood later appeared in front of the camera for 9 years became less-watched productions.

Clint Eastwood traveled to Italy at the suggestion of young and yet unknown director Sergio Leone. The course of his career changed with Leone's Italian trilogy.

* A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

* For A Few Dollars (1965)

* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

These films were released in the United States in 1968.

All eyes were turned to Clint Eastwood after they received a great deal of attention.

His speaking style, which caused him not to be able to act in high-budget movies, was accepted as the feature that made Clint Eastwood different and special after the trilogy.

Also, Hollywood Western hero John Wayne was now 61 years old.

A new Western hero was needed.

The directors and producers decided that Clint Eastwood could be John Wayne's successor.

Clint Eastwood, who has been acting for 13 years, rose to fame at the age of 38 from ordinary acting to star actor.

Clint Eastwood, who started to act mostly in Western films, took the second high jump in his career in 1971.

'Dirty Harry'...

Frank Sinatra was going to play Harry Callahan, a headstrong, unruly cop.

However, when Frank Sinatra fell ill, he sought another actor to replace him.

Don Siegel, who made 5 films with Clint Eastwood, died in 1991 at the age of 79.

Don Siegel, who is both the producer and the director of the movie, made an offer to Clint Eastwood, who worked on 'Coogan's Bluff' 3 years ago.

Thus, a new phenomenon character was born in Clint Eastwood's career, who identified with him.

Clint Eastwood, the fast-drawing gunslinger of Western movies, was also quite fast in his private life. After marrying Maggie Johnson, Clint Eastwood had affairs with many women, from stewardess to mayor.

His relationship with Sondra Locke, with whom he starred in 6 films, was his most open and longest fling.

Sondra Locke, who was in a relationship with Clint Eastwood from 1975 to 1989, passed away in 2018 at the age of 74.

Sondra Locke wasn't the only woman Clint Eastwood had flirted with. Eastwood had public or secret relationships with many women, including the famous singer Barbra Streisand.

Clint Eastwood had 8 children with his two wives and lovers. Many years later, Eastwood learned that he also had a daughter named Laurie Murray.

Clint Eastwood had no problem ending their relationship.

Except with Sondra Locke.

Sondra Locke, with whom she had a relationship for 14 years, filed a lawsuit against Clint Eastwood for allegedly preventing her from being a director after the relationship ended and that she had to have two abortions during their relationship. Eastwood paid $7 million in damages to Locke, who won the highly contentious case.

Interesting Facts About

* During his unsuccessful student period, he burned a statue in the school garden and hung a sexually explicit article about an administrator on the school board.

* When he was in the army, he made a forced landing in the Pacific Ocean, about 3.5 km from the coast, because the plane he was in ran out of fuel.

The plane's pilot and Clint Eastwood swam for hours in stormy weather to reach shore. Eastwood directed the 2016 film 'Sully', which is about the life of pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who saved the lives of all crew and passengers by forcefully landing the plane in the Hudson River in 2009.

* He wore the same poncho in 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars', and 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'. That poncho has never been washed or cleaned for 2 years.

* Although he plays characters who do not smoke in some of his films, he never smoked in real life.

* He was one of the actors considered for 'Rambo: First Blood' filmed in 1982. However, the producing studio decided on Sylvester Stallone.

* Another big project he missed was the 1988 film 'Die Hard', which was adapted from the novel 'Nothing Lasts Forever'. Although he owns the rights to the novel and he wanted to portray the character of 'John McClane' in the movie, Bruce Willis was given the lead role when he changed his mind at the last minute.

* Sergio Leone was 35 when he shot 'A Fistful of Dollars'. And he was directing the third movie of his career.

Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone, who are the same age, became close friends in a short time, and they had the opportunity to chat more about each other's work and give each other ideas.

Clint Eastwood, who gave the idea to Sergio Leone for some scenes of 'A Fistful of Dollars', had made his directorial debut, but he was not yet aware of it.

Sergio Leone was the one who noticed. Leone has repeatedly advised Clint Eastwood that he should also direct.

Clint Eastwood, taking into account the recommendations of Sergio Leone, told the studios that he wanted to direct the film in which he starred.

Because it wasn't Clint Eastwood before he went to Italy. After Sergio Leone's trilogy, he reinforced the fame he gained in the USA and Europe with 'Hang Them High', 'Eagle's Nest', 'Death Game' and 'Mad Warriors', and his films reached high box office figures.

He now had a career strong enough to make demands on the studios.

* Clint Eastwood also started directing, but in the 1970s, movies did not make much noise, except for the 3 films in the 'Dirty Harry' series directed by Don Siegel.

Until 1979's 'Escape from Alcatraz'.

The film, also directed by Don Siegel, became a new touchstone in Clint Eastwood's career.

'Escape from Alcatraz', in which the story of Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin's escape from the famous island prison, Alcatraz, which is called 'cannot escape', was reflected on the silver screen with a cost of 8 million dollars, grossed $ 43 million.

Life story

Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, in San Francisco. In his early years, he had to constantly move with his family due to his father's temporary work. Eastwood graduated from Oakland Technical School in 1948. After graduating high school, he started a lumber business in Oregon. Eastwood, who was also a terrible pianist, even taught swimming in the army for a while. At this time, he had no interest in acting and was thinking about his future life from different angles.

Clint joined the army in 1949. In the army, he met his future wife, Maggie Johnson. After his military service, Eastwood decided to continue his education and enrolled in Business Administration at City College of Los Angeles. Clint's friends were suggesting that he should become an actor. In the end, he went to Universal Studios to try himself out of despair. Clint was hired with good pay.

His first acting debut was in a very small episode in the thriller called "The Revenge of The Creature". He played a small role for the first time in the next movie, the movie called "Tarantula and Lady Godiva". In 1955, he starred in the movie "Francis in the Navy". Acting in many B-type movies, the actor moved to New York and played in the TV series "Rawhide" from 1959 to 1966.

Eastwood, who caught a minimalist style in his acting with his experience in television, moved to Europe and played in the spaghetti trio of Sergio Leone, the unforgettable director of the spaghetti western genre. Starting a series of bloody cowboy movies based on the theme of "everyone gets rich or dies" with "A Fistful of Dollars" in 1964, the actor gained world fame with his portrait of a wandering and brutal American cowboy. Two years later, the actor starring in the films "For A Few Dollars More" and the legendary "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" became the classics of the classic revisionist Western genre. After returning to his country, he took the first step into a long business friendship with the director of the film, Don Siegel, with the smart city cowboy character he portrayed in "Coogan's Bluff" in 1968.

The actor, who created a second legend with the police character "Dirty" Harry Callahan, portrayed in Siegel's 1971 film "Dirty Harry", repeated this immortal and unruly cop character in the 1983 film "Sudden Impact". Eastwood, who challenges simple ideological categorizations with the characters he plays, states that the characters he plays are men who are close to being evaluated as right or wrong.

Continuing to paint portraits of fair men, the actor acted in popular comedy films such as "Every Which Way But Loose" (1978) and "Any Way You Can" (1980), as well as action films. Eastwood, who stands out with his macho male characters who are more introverted and have difficulty communicating with people, played jazz musician Charlie Parker in the movie "Bird" in 1988.

The actor, who started to lose his appeal in the film industry in the 1980s, played the character of Dirty Harry for the fifth time in 1988 with "The Dead Pool". After appearing in unsuccessful productions such as "The Rookie" and "White Hunter, Black Heart", the actor appeared in a semi-fictional movie called "The African Queen", which was found quite interesting. Eastwood, who directed "Unforgiven" in 1992, starring Morgan Freeman as well as himself, won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director at that time. The film, which the actor dedicated to master directors such as Don Siegel and Sergio Leone, with whom he had worked before, earned a high box office revenue of $ 100 million.

The actor, who portrayed the Secret Service officer in the movie "In the Line of Fire" in 1993, had a great acting with John Malkovich, who portrayed a master murderer. Directed by the famous Alam director Wolfgang Petersen, the film grossed 100 million marks in a few months, making it the actor's second biggest commercial success in the recent period. Eastwood, who directed the 1993 film "A Perfect World," explored the emotional relationship between an outlaw and the little boy he's kidnapped. The actor played a cop trying to catch the outlaw played by Kevin Costner in the movie.

Eastwood, who married Dina Ruiz on March 31, 1996, later appeared in many mid-level films. The actor attracted attention with "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", which he directed. Adapted from John Berendt's book of the same name, which deals with a true event, the film was about a murder case in Savannah. In 1999, Eastwood directed as well as produced the thriller "True Crime," which left people in doubt until the very last moment. In 2000, the actor directed a space adventure called "Space Cowboys", which brought together master actors such as Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner. Later, Eastwood starred in the movie "Blood Work" and in 2004 "Million", for which he won the Oscar for Best Director. He also played the lead role in the movie "Dollar Baby".