Celebrity Inter view Clint Eastwood
These days when most people hit 87 years old they reside in a care home, having had to sell their homes to foot the bills. Not so for multiple award-winning Hollywood heart throb Clint Eastwood who is still very much active. In fact, the next fi lm he will direct is entitled A Star is Born in 2018.
Worth over £300m, it seems that my old boss the late Paul Cave, who was manager of legendary crooner Frankie Vaughan for many years, was wrong about Clint. “It was the ‘50s and Clint fl ew over from the States to meet me in my London offi ce; I couldn’t see any talent and couldn’t do anything for him,” he told me. Soon after their meeting Clint secured his fi rst role in American western television series Rawhide earning around £70 a week but was criticised for how he came across including delivering his lines through clenched teeth. The latter has stayed with him throughout his almost 70-year career.
He has contributed to over 50 fi lms over his career as actor, director, producer, and composer. He has acted in several television series, including his starring role in Rawhide. He started directing in 1971, and made his debut as a producer in 1982, with Firefox, though he had been functioning as uncredited producer on all of his Malpaso Company fi lms since Hang ‘Em High in 1968. Eastwood also has contributed music to his fi lms, either through performing, writing, or composing. He has mainly starred in western, action, and drama fi lms. According to the box offi ce–revenue tracking website Box Offi ce Mojo, fi lms featuring Clint Eastwood have grossed a total of more than $1.68 billion domestically, with an average of $37 million per fi lm. He has his own Warner Bros. Records distributed imprint Malpaso Records, as part of his deal with Warner Brothers, which has released all the scores of his fi lms from The Bridges of Madison County onwards. Clint composed the fi lm scores of Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Grace Is Gone,
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Changeling, Hereafter, J. Edgar, and the original piano compositions for In the Line of Fire. He wrote and performed the song heard over the credits of Gran Torino.
After Rawhide in the 1960s Clint went on to star in a series of spaghetti westerns including: A Fist Full of Dollars and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The 1970s saw him take the leading role of police inspector Harry Callaghan in Dirty Harry, delivering one of his most memorable lines: “Make my day punk”.
When Sean Connery turned down the role of James Bond it was off ered to Clint but it wasn’t for him. In the 1970s he started directing fi lms, the fi rst being Play Misty for Me as well as his fi rst western, High Plains Drifter.
He went on to star alongside Meryl Streep in the romantic fi lm Bridges of Madison County and in 2008 directed, produced and had the lead role in Gran Torino about a ageing widower who watches his neighbourhood fall into disrepute and he single handedly takes on those responsible for this.
Often choosing the role of a hard man he plays a part that every man and woman can relate to and sympathise with.
As one might expect of a Hollywood actor Clint has had a series of relationships with leading ladies and has several children. A lifelong non-smoker Clint practices a healthy lifestyle which includes transcendental meditation. He is a restaurateur and golfer. He is also a pianist and although he never made it as a professional musician, he passed on the infl uence to his son Kyle Eastwood, a successful jazz bassist and composer.
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