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48 unusual facts about Clint Eastwood


Anthony Peckham

In 2009, Peckham wrote the screenplays to two high-profile releases: the Clint Eastwood-directed Nelson Mandela biopic Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, and Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey, Jr..

Battle of Heartbreak Ridge

Heartbreak Ridge is associated with the title and backstory of the 1986 movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

Billy Curtis

Curtis work in westerns included the Clint Eastwood feature, High Plains Drifter (1973) in which he featured as Mordecai, a friendly small person sympathetic to Eastwood, he also appeared in the Musical/Western The Terror of Tiny Town (1938).

Bobby Berosini

Earlier, in 1978, one of his orangutans, Clyde, appeared in Every Which Way but Loose with Clint Eastwood.

Carl Jackson

The double-CD tells Twain's life in spoken-word and song and features Jimmy Buffett as Huckleberry Finn, Garrison Keillor as narrator, and Clint Eastwood as Twain.

Chester Williams

Clint Eastwood directed Invictus, which is about the 1995 Rugby World Cup and how it helped South Africa heal after years of apartheid.

Dan Vadis

After the sword and sandal films faded he moved into spaghetti westerns, then became a recurring face in Clint Eastwood westerns such as High Plains Drifter.

David A. Hargrave

Added visual references/homage to Clint Eastwood in a majority of his works in the form of a warrior character whose appearance is identical to Eastwood's (during his films the 1970s).

Dean Riesner

In 1968 he landed a job working on the Clint Eastwood action film Coogan's Bluff, and this in turn would lead to him writing several other Eastwood features throughout the 1970s.

Eric Fleming

In 1958, the 6 foot 3 1/2 inches (half an inch shorter than his co-star Clint Eastwood) Fleming landed the starring role as trail boss Gil Favor in Rawhide .

For a Few Extra Dollars

Stefanelli in particular had starred in all three of Leone's dollars films and had acted as a translator on set between the Italians and Clint Eastwood.

Ford Torino

The 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport SportsRoof was featured in the movie Gran Torino, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

The 1972 body style has received notable recent exposure with the release of the 2008 film Gran Torino (featuring a 1972 Gran Torino Sport and Clint Eastwood) and the 2009 film Fast & Furious.

Fort Boise

The final "wild west show" scene of the Clint Eastwood movie Bronco Billy was filmed in Fort Boise Park in October 1979.

Georgetown, Colorado

The historic downtown was used as the location for the filming of a scene from the 1978 movie Every Which Way But Loose starring Clint Eastwood.

Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium

When the stadium was being built in the 1960s, Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns were very popular in Greece, and the stadium's nickname is a reference to Eastwood's 1965 film For a Few Dollars More (which had the Greek title Duel in El Paso), as the stadium's backdrop reminded people of images in the movie.

In Your Own Sweet Way

The song title gave its name to the 2010 documentary film about Brubeck, produced by Clint Eastwood, Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way.

Irene Kral

She became more famous posthumously when Clint Eastwood used her recordings in his 1995 movie The Bridges of Madison County.

Janice Kaplan

She wrote cover stories for the magazine on celebrities including Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon and Daniel Craig.

Joe Rosenthal

The 2006 Hollywood film titled Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood which tells the life stories of the flag raisers, depicts Rosenthal's involvement in the events that led up to his taking the iconic flag raising photograph.

Jonathan Gems

Gems has written a number of unproduced scripts for Burton, including a Beetlejuice sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and Go Baby Go, a beach movie in the style of Russ Meyer.

Josey Wales

Wales is named after the 1976 Western movie character from The Outlaw Josey Wales, played by Clint Eastwood, and subsequently nicknamed "The Outlaw".

Kallithea F.C.

When the stadium was being built in the 1960s, Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns were very popular in Greece, and the stadium's nickname is a reference to Eastwood's 1965 film For a Few Dollars More (which had the Greek title Duel in El Paso), as the stadium's backdrop reminded people of the scenery in the movie.

Lääz Rockit

The group takes its name from the finale of the 1976 Clint Eastwood movie, The Enforcer, involving the use of a M72 LAW rocket.

Longview, Alberta

In 1991, Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning film Unforgiven was filmed in and around Longview, as was the television film starring Tom Selleck, Monte Walsh.

Maryvale Preparatory School

It can also be found in popular culture, most notably in the 1997 Clint Eastwood movie, Absolute Power.

Nick Schenk

When Clint Eastwood read it, he not only decided to direct and star in it but he also insisted that not a word be changed by the studio.

Parthen Rasithen

Much of the plot and plot elements have been lifted from the 1971 American thriller Play Misty for Me, directed by Clint Eastwood.

Paul Brinegar

Brinegar made over 100 appearances between 1946 and 1994, appearing in many western films, and played the barman in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter in 1973.

Pokkisham

This movie's concept is partially inspired by the 1995 Hollywood romantic film The Bridges of Madison County, directed by Clint Eastwood.

Rufe Persful

In the 1979, Don Siegel-Clint Eastwood film Escape from Alcatraz, Persful's hand mutilation was enacted in the movie.

S.A. Griffin

Griffin is also a Dramalogue Award recipient, having played roles in films by several notable film directors, including Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (2006), Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985), and Ivan Reitman's Twins (1988).

Sawtooth National Recreation Area

Clint Eastwood's 1985 film Pale Rider was filmed in the SNRA, mostly in the Boulder Mountains in the fall of 1984.
The opening credits scene was shot south of Stanley in front of the Sawtooth Mountains.

Sea of Heartbreak

It has also been featured in several movies, among them Heartbreak Ridge starring Clint Eastwood.

She Builds Quick Machines

Something is seen falling from the sky and Scott Weiland (suited as Clint Eastwood in the film A Fistful of Dollars) holds up a telescope, in which they see a female angel called "Libertad" (Spanish for 'freedom') played by Fernanda Romero.

Sieghardt Rupp

His most noted western performance was his role as Esteban Rojo in Sergio Leone's 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars alongside Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonté.

Soko 522

Some of its prominent movie roles were in the Yugoslav Oscar candidate Battle of Neretva and Kelly's Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood.

Stepan Pasicznyk

His second cousin on his maternal Irish side was Eddie Rabbitt, the Nashville country music star whose song "Kentucky Rain" was a hit for Elvis Presley and whose song "Every Which Way But Loose" was the theme tune for a film starring Clint Eastwood and an orangutan.

Tab Thacker

He began his film career after Clint Eastwood noticed him in Time magazine and noted the 6-foot-4 and 450-pound (1.93 m, 204 kg) Thacker's size.

The Trouble with... Harry

The album encountered numerous delays during its recording and production and, following a lawsuit with Clint Eastwood over copyright issues with the name 'Dirty Harry', it had to be re-recorded.

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Produced by Clint Eastwood, Bruce Ricker, and directed/co-produced by Charlotte Zwerin, it features live performances by Monk and his group, and posthumous interviews with friends and family.

Tom Villard

At the peak of his career Villard was given featured supporting roles in big-budget studio fare, such as Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge, and My Girl (with Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis).

Water fasting

Paul C. Bragg referred to this energy as the "Vital Force," and popularized water fasting with his many books including Bragg Health Crusades, and promotion by Hollywood celebrities such as Stephanie Morgan and Clint Eastwood.

WDRQ

Its morning drive team of Rogers and Holiday featured comedic "celebrity" drop-ins by the spoofed likes of Rodney Dangerfield, Clint Eastwood and Eddie Murphy, as well as original characters like Mr. Action.

Where's My Cow?

Pratchett has previously commented that this is who he has always perceived Vimes as looking like, rather than Paul Kidby's 'Clint Eastwood' representation.

Willie and the Hand Jive

Otis' performance of "Willie and the Hand Jive" was included in Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty for Me.

Wolfgang Lukschy

Possibly his most noted performances worldwide were his roles as Alfred Jodl in the 1962 American war film The Longest Day and as John Baxter in Sergio Leone's 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars alongside Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonté.

ZWAM

According to Lesley Sharp the "cowboys" of ZWAM "assumed a style of dress reminiscent of Clint Eastwood, a loner recognized as the 'champion of real justice' over 'the venal guardians of formal law'".


Alcatraz Dining Hall

It has appeared in films such as Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood's Escape from Alcatraz (1979), and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994), which has a scene spoofing the dining room scenes of the 1979 film.

Andrea Apuzzo

During the course of his culinary work experience, Apuzzo has prepared culinary dishes for such notables as Queen Elizabeth, Princess Anne, President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter, Senator Ted Kennedy, Clint Eastwood, Omar Sharif, Sophia Loren, Senator Jack Kemp, Lee Meriwether and Tommy Lasorda.

David Sheehan

In the 1980s, while at NBC, Sheehan was the first local entertainment reporter to host and produce his own series of network specials, including “Macho Men of the Movies” (with Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger) and “Hollywood’s Leading Ladies” (with Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand).

Duncan Shepherd

Among contemporary directors, Shepherd praises perhaps the Coen brothers and Clint Eastwood the highest.

Flags of Our Fathers

The film adaptation Flags of Our Fathers, which opened in the U.S. on October 20, 2006, was directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis.

J. Remington Wilde

His songs have been recorded by many country and pop artists, including Ray Charles, Gary Allan, Juice Newton, Conway Twitty, Clint Eastwood, Tommy Overstreet, Randy Travis and more, earning numerous RIAA certified gold and platinum discs.

James Georgopoulos

Famous cinematic guns in that series include those used by Al Pacino in Scarface, Lady Gaga in her music video "Born This Way", John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John Malkovich in RED and Angelina Jolie in Salt.

John L. Wasserman

He counted Woody Allen, Joan Baez, poet Michael McClure, Clint Eastwood, Lily Tomlin, Bill Graham and numerous other celebrities among his friends.

Johnson Motors Inc. Clothing

Although the company was the number one dealer of Triumph Motorcycles in California, an active supporter of California Motor Racing during the early to mid twentieth century, and collaborated with such stars as Marlon Brando, James Dean, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen, it has only become well known in recent years due to its vintage clothing.

Mary Selway

Selway worked with a number of renowned directors over three decades, including Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, Clint Eastwood, John Boorman, Sydney Pollack, Robert Altman, Michael Apted, Nicolas Roeg, Fred Schepisi, Fred Zinnemann and Ridley Scott.

Ned Eisenberg

He has also continued his film career; he appeared in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning drama Million Dollar Baby and played the small but important role of photographer Joe Rosenthal in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers, also directed by Eastwood.

Vince Gironda

A short list of stars who trained at Vince's Gym includes Robert Blake, Cher, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, James Garner, Brian Keith, Tommy Chong (of Cheech & Chong) and Erik Estrada.