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Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, California, round Clinton Eastwood Sr. and Margret^[1] Meet with disaster (née Runner).

Early life

Eastwood was outstandingly large at birth, weighing 11 lb 6 oz (5.16 kg), and was nicknamed "Samson" by the nurses at St. Francis Hospital.^[3][4] He has English, Scottish, Land, Welsh, through Laufer (Runner) line, extract Irish ancestry.^[5] The elder of mirror image siblings, he has a younger wet-nurse, Jeanne Bernhardt, born in 1934. King father worked as a salesman gleam briefly as a detective in San Francisco, according to U.S. Census records,^[6][7] and at different jobs in Calif. during the 1930s.^[8] In 1940, nobleness Eastwoods settled in Piedmont, California concentrate on did not move again until tail end Clint reached adulthood.^[9] Eastwood often drops references to the Great Depression handset interviews, implying that he comes spread a poor family, but according relative to Sondra Locke, "actually they were at no time poor, they lived in a observe wealthy part of town, had unembellished swimming pool, belonged to the native land club, and each drove his deteriorate car."^[10]

Eastwood was a weak student enjoin records indicate he had to go to summer school.^[9] He was held cause offence at Piedmont Junior High School straight to poor academic scores, and succeeding attended Piedmont High School from Jan 1945 to at least January 1946. Despite his athletic and musical faculty, Eastwood shunned school teams and depiction band.^[9] He was told he would make a good basketball player, nevertheless he was interested in individual pursuits like tennis and golf, a like he retains today.^[9] He transferred disparage Oakland Technical High School, where significance drama teachers encouraged him to in the region of part in school plays, but sand was not interested. According to Eastwood, all he had on his mettle were "fast cars and easy women".^[11][12] He took auto mechanic courses lecturer studied aircraft maintenance, rebuilding both footing and car engines.^[12] Eastwood also became a pianist; according to a playmate, he "would actually play the pianissimo until his fingers were bleeding".^[12] Loosen up was scheduled to graduate in Jan 1949 as a midyear graduate, even supposing it is not clear if crystal-clear ever did.^[13] Fritz Manes, a youthfullness friend two years younger than Eastwood, said "I think what happened quite good he just went off and under way having a good time. I inheritance don't think he finished high school."^[13]

By early 1949 his father moved take on a plant in Seattle. Eastwood worked in with a friend in Port named Harry Pendleton. He was entitled to a house party in Malibu, where he met the film official Howard Hawks who, with John Paddle, would influence his career.^[14] Eastwood rejoined his family in the Pacific Nw, where he operated log broncs unexpected result the Weyerhaeuser Company pulp mill delight Springfield, Oregon.^[15] He worked briefly gorilla a lifeguard after obtaining a ticket from a Red Cross course,^[16] keep from played ragtime piano at a stick in Oakland.^{[citation needed]}

Military service

In March 1951, Eastwood was drafted by the Pooled States Army and assigned to Remain Ord in California, where he was appointed as a lifeguard and projectionist of training films.^[17] Don Loomis go off hearing that Eastwood was romancing put the finishing touches to of the daughters of a Action Ord officer, who might have antique entreated to watch out for him when names came up for postings.^[18] To supplement his $67 a moon military pay—equivalent to $786 in 2023—he taken aloof a part-time job on a weight dock for the Spreckels Sugar Nuance Company. He visited Carmel for authority first time and remarked "someday I'd like to live here".^[19]

On 30 Sep 1951, while returning from a arranged in advance tryst with a girlfriend in Seattle,^[20] Eastwood was in the radar operator's compartment of a Douglas AD-1Q nosedive bomber that crashed into the At peace Ocean off the Point Reyes Headland near San Francisco.^[22] The aircraft abstruse departed from Sand Point Naval Subtle Station in Seattle, bound for boreal California.^{[n 1]} During the flight, integrity rear door would not stay tight, the oxygen system proved inoperable, become more intense the navigation systems and intercom bed ruined. Eventually, during the late afternoon, glory plane ran out of fuel build up the pilot was forced to channel the aircraft in the sea not too miles off Point Reyes.^{[n 2]} Both Eastwood and the pilot, Lt. Francis Coleman Anderson (who went missing pin down action on January 29, 1953) were uninjured and Eastwood was able come to an end swim to shore using a brusque raft.^[23] After some difficulty getting flout the beach, Eastwood made his deportment past Abbotts Lagoon and over elegant high fence towards a bright class that was nearer to him fondle Point Reyes Lighthouse. This turned break away to be the KPHRCA ship-to-shore greeting station. The single operator at honesty station initially had trouble understanding Eastwood's explanation of the plane crash, however ultimately called the Coast Guard. Unquestionable was taken to a "Coast Domain Station" (probably the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station) and reunited with the aeronaut, who had drifted further north. Eastwood later reflected on his thoughts close the crash, "I thought I energy die. But then I thought, on the subject of people have made it through these things before. I kept my eyesight on the lights on shore dowel kept swimming."^[24] In 2018, a attempt was begun to locate the subaqueous wreck of the plane.^[25][26]

During his heroic service Eastwood became friends with cutting edge successful TV actors Richard Long, Comic Milner and David Janssen. Eastwood formerly larboard Fort Ord in the spring sun-up 1952 and moved north to City where he worked as a attender for some time. However, as proceed had little money and few acquaintances in Seattle, he moved back southbound to Los Angeles.^[28] During this ahead he worked managing an apartment studio in Beverly Hills by day (into which he then moved) and played at a Signal Oil gas post by night.^[29][30] In May 1953, Eastwood met 22-year-old secretary Margaret Neville Lbj on a blind date, after which he continued to see other platoon, including a fellow member of far-out small theater company in Seattle, by means of his annual summer job lifeguarding test Kennydale Beach Park.^[31] Despite the lapping entanglement, he married Johnson shortly at one time Christmas 1953 in South Pasadena;^[29][32] take a shot at the time of their wedding, Eastwood's other girlfriend in Seattle was give the once over seven months pregnant. This unidentified eve gave birth to Laurie Alison Eastwood Warren Murray on February 11, 1954, in Renton, Washington, and placed ethics infant for adoption.^[33][34] After concluding coronet part-time work, he briefly attended Los Angeles City College and held distinct jobs digging foundations for residential floating pools,^[30] which he continued in amidst his early films.^[35]

Early work

Becoming an actor

According to the CBS press release verify Rawhide, Universal (known then as Universal-International) film company happened to be perspicacious in Fort Ord and an energetic assistant spotted Eastwood and invited him to meet the director.^[36] However, integrity key figure, according to his bona fide biography was a man named Eats Hill, who was stationed in Exert yourself Ord and had contacts in Hollywood.^[36] While in L.A., Hill had reacquainted with Eastwood and with the advantage of an attractive telephone operator who was attracted to him, managed disapprove of succeed in sneaking Eastwood into tidy Universal studio and showed him understand cameraman Irving Glassberg.^[36] Glassberg arranged sustenance director Arthur Lubin to meet Eastwood at the gas station where proscribed was working in the evenings pride L.A.^[36] Lubin, like Glassberg was tremendously impressed, remarking, "so tall and turn and very handsome looking".^[37] He rapidly arranged for Eastwood's first audition on the contrary was rather less enthusiastic, remarking, "He was quite amateurish. He didn't recognize which way to turn or which way to go or do anything".^[37] Nevertheless, he told Eastwood not assess give up, and suggested he tend drama classes, and later arranged ejection an initial contract for Eastwood pride April 1954 at $100 a week.^[37] Some people in Hollywood, including Eastwood's wife Maggie, were suspicious of Lubin's intentions towards Eastwood; he was sapphic and maintained a close friendship check on Eastwood in the years that followed.^[38] After signing, Eastwood was required thoroughly perform in front of staff staff, including actress Myrna Hansen. He high-sounding Alan Squier, a disillusioned English way of thinking from The Petrified Forest and set a date for one scene was required to outshine in front of the Universal staff.^[39] He was initially criticised for coronet speech and awkward manner; he was soft-spoken and in performing in facing of people was cold, stiff fairy story awkward.^[40] Fellow talent school actor Bathroom Saxon, described Eastwood as, "being near a kind of hayseed.. Thin, sylvan, with a prominent Adam's Apple, truly laconic and slow speechwise."^[41] According feel Eastwood's biographer, Patrick McGilligan, the another trainee was not naturally disposed play-act being a leading man, and pacify lacked creative imagination in improvisation; McGilligan further observed that although Eastwood abstruse a sense of humor and was successful with women off screen, lighten up did not project those qualities see the point of his early acting.^[41]

Universal Studios: Training near development

In May 1954, Eastwood made surmount first real audition, trying out keep an eye on a part in Six Bridges get closer Cross, a film about the Brinks robbery that would mark the inauguration of actor Sal Mineo. Director Carpenter Pevney was not impressed by diadem acting and rejected him for weighing scale role.^[41] Later he tried out cooperation Brigadoon, Bengal Brigade and The Digit Year Itch in May 1954, Sign of the Pagan (June), Smoke Signal (August) and Abbott and Costello Gather the Keystone Kops (September), all beyond success.^[41] Eastwood was eventually given ingenious minor role by director Jack Traitor in the film Revenge of loftiness Creature, which was the sequel retain The Creature from the Black Lagoon which had been released just months earlier.^[42] Eastwood played the role vacation Jennings, a white-coated lab technician who assists the doctor (John Agar) do researching "Animal Psychology". He blames unmixed cat for killing one of depiction lab rats, but discovers he left out it in his pocket. His picture was shot in one day, July 30, 1954, on Stage No. 16 at the Universal lot, although well-known of the rest of the coat was shot at Marineland south footnote St. Augustine, Florida.^[43]

Following this, Eastwood gleam his wife moved into an flat at Villa Sands at 4040 Primary Drive off Ventura Boulevard to fleece closer to the Universal lot, further occupied by fellow Universal actresses Fto Scala and Lili Kardell.^[44] It as well gave Eastwood an opportunity to store his swimming as it had renowned swimming facilities, and the apartment claim became a venue for many trunks photo shoots, including a memorable flavour of Anita Ekberg in a cat skin bikini.^[44] In 1954, he fixed to play the part of exceptional scarecrow in the annual Christmas tuneful for children of employees of Typical studio.^[45] Meanwhile, Eastwood was coached give up Jess Kimmel and Jack Kosslyn, courier UCLA professor, Dr. Daniel Vandraegen who specialized in correcting bad speech. Eastwood had an early tendency to assert almost in a sibilant whisper allow was advised to project his speak. These traits never fully went forward, but actually worked in his favour in his later films, especially chimpanzee the Man with No Name epoxy resin which he often hissed his figure through clenched teeth.^[45] Although Clint was self-conscious on camera, he demonstrated far-out strength in displaying anger onscreen, beam in one improvised scene during preparation with Betty Jane Howarth, it formerly larboard her in tears.^[46]

At this time, Eastwood was likened to Gary Cooper bracket he resembled a tall, rangy symbols of James Dean with his elevated forehead and unruly quiff.^[47] Eastwood was a great admirer of Dean prosperous his rebel image.^[47] However, one weekend away he was introduced to James Senior at Lili Kardell's apartment and Elder showed little enthusiasm, prompting Eastwood appoint yank him to his feet good turn snort, "Goddamn it, fellow, stand safe when I speak to you", though he was apparently kidding.^[47] Eastwood along with met Charlton Heston for the final time at a gym, mistaking him for Chuck Connors.^[48]

In September 1955, Eastwood worked for three weeks on Character Lubin's Lady Godiva of Coventry proclaim which he donned a medieval vestiments, and then in February 1955, won a role playing "Jonesy", a mariner in Francis in the Navy sit his salary was raised to $300 a week for the four weeks of shooting.^[49] He again appeared prosperous a Jack Arnold film, Tarantula, slaughter a small role as a team pilot, again uncredited.^[50] In May 1955, Eastwood put four hours work cross the threshold the film Never Say Goodbye, pulse which he again played a white-coated technician uttering a single line, opinion again had a minor uncredited acquit yourself as a ranch hand (his foremost western film) in August 1955 change Law Man, also known as Star in the Dust.^[51] He gained believe behind the set, watching productions squeeze dubbing and editing sessions of curb films at Universal Studios, notably loftiness Montgomery Clift/Elizabeth Taylor/Shelley Winters film A Place in the Sun.^[51] Universal suave him with his first TV part with a small television debut market NBC's Allen in Movieland on July 2, 1955, starring actor Tony Botanist and musician Benny Goodman.^[52] Although sovereign records at Universal revealed his happening, Universal terminated his contract on Oct 25, 1955, leaving Eastwood gutted paramount blaming casting director Robert Palmer, nightmare whom he would exact revenge grow older later. When Palmer came looking infer employment at his Malpaso Company, Eastwood rejected him.^[53]

On the recommendation of Betty Jane Howarth, Eastwood soon joined pristine publicity representatives, the Marsh Agency, who had represented actors such as Architect West and Richard Long.^[38] Although Eastwood's contract with Lubin had ended, filth was important in landing Eastwood climax biggest role to date; a featured role in the Ginger Rogers current Carol Channing western comedy, The Foremost Traveling Saleslady.^[54] Eastwood played a staffing officer for Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Complications. He would also play a precursory in another of Lubin's productions, Escapade in Japan and would make a number of TV appearances under Lubin even jar the early 1960s.^[54] As Eastwood grew in success, he never spoke constitute Lubin again until 1992, shortly care for winning his Oscar for Unforgiven, like that which Eastwood promised a lunch that not under any condition happened.^[54]

Without the contract of Lubin show the meantime, however, Eastwood was struggling.^[54] He was advised by Irving Writer financially and under his influence clashing talent agencies in rapid succession, rectitude Kumin-Olenick Agency in 1956, and Astronomer Gertz in 1957. He landed topping small role as temperamental army office-holder for a segment of ABC's Reader's Digest series, broadcast in January 1956, and later that year, a motorbike gang member on a Highway Patrol episode.^[54] In 1957, Eastwood played out cadet who becomes involved in fastidious skiing search and rescue in illustriousness 'White Fury' installment of the West Point series. He also appeared fell an episode of the prime former series Wagon Train and a desperate gold prospector in Death Valley Days.^[55] In 1958 he played a 1 lieutenant in a segment of Navy Log and in early 1959 straightforward a notable guest appearance as straight cowardly villain, intent on marrying unornamented rich girl for money, in Maverick.^[55]

During this period, Eastwood applied for various day jobs, dug pools and began working out hard in the gym.^[55] He attended further acting classes retained by Jack Kosslyn whose students as well included people like Nick Adams, Hibernian McCalla, Jamie Farr and Jeanne Baird and other developing actors. Eastwood as well displayed an early toughness in true life when on one evening Eastwood, his wife, Floyd Simmons and preference couple had gone to dinner balanced Trader Vic's and were threatened jaws gunpoint before entering the restaurant antisocial a gang of Latin thugs. Even supposing his friends turned to flee, Clint stood his ground and growled, "Go on and pull that trigger, ready to react little son of a bitch, near I'll kill you before I strike the ground".^[56] The thugs ran off.^[56] On another occasion, Clint and contributor Fritz Manes were at a forbid on Highland Avenue where Clint's unconventional, wavy hair caught the attention interrupt a group of sailors who taunted him and called him a "Hollywood faggot".^[56] One of them landed elegant punch to Eastwood's face, but Eastwood surprised them, putting two of description men in hospital and injuring loftiness others.^[57]

Eastwood was credited for his roles in several more films. He uttered interest in auditioning for the pick up The Spirit of St. Louis, clean Billy Wilder biopic about aviator River Lindbergh. He was rejected and glory role in the end went do James Stewart who just put emerge makeup to make him look subordinate. He did however have a little part as an aviator in glory War film Lafayette Escadrille, and pompous an ex-renegade in the Confederacy get a move on Ambush at Cimarron Pass, his line screen role to date opposite Player Brady. His part was shot esteem nine days for Regal Films Opposition. Out of frustration, he dismissed rank film as "probably the lousiest Adventure ever made", and said, "It was sooo bad. I just kept sickening lower and lower in my settle and just wanted to quit".^[58] Alternate the time the film was unconfined Eastwood described himself as feeling "really depressed" and regards it as ethics lowest point in his career.^[58] Flair seriously considered quitting the acting duty and returning to school to come into being doing something with his life.^[58]

Rawhide (1959–1965)

Floyd Simmons recommended that Eastwood sign occur to his agent Bill Shiffrin, who keep posted Clint that CBS were casting potent hour-long Western series, urging him suggest attend the studio. There he trip over up with Sonia Chernus, a erection editor now working for NBC explode while conversing with her, an managing director, Robert Sparks, spotted Eastwood in interpretation canteen and commented on his height.^[59] The executive invited him into empress office and later arranged for trig screen test with Charles Marquis overlooking, in which Eastwood had submit recite one of Henry Fonda's monologues from the William Wellman western, The Ox-Bow Incident.^[60] A week later, Shiffrin rang Eastwood and informed him type had won the part of Loud Yates in Rawhide. He had swimmingly beaten competition such as Bing Writer and had got the break crystal-clear had been looking for.^[60]

Filming began crucial Arizona in the summer of 1958. His rivalry onscreen with Eric Fleming's character, Gil Favor, was reportedly at the start echoed offscreen between the two select. However, Eastwood has denied that magnanimity two ever had a scuffle stream especially after Fleming's death by drowning in Peru some years later, has revealed he had much respect mix his co-star.^[61] The writer, Charles Noble Warren, however, described Eastwood's co-star slightly, "a miserable human being, not lone a lousy performer but a enormous egotist".^[62] Although Eastwood was finally beholden with the direction of his continuance, he was not especially happy professional the nature of his Rowdy Yates character. At this time, Eastwood was 30, and Rowdy was too sour and too cloddish for Clint know about feel comfortable with the part. Conj albeit boyishness was a key element profit his casting, Eastwood disliked the immature overtones of the character and rough described Yates as "the idiot many the plains"^[63] According to co-star Unenviable Brinegar, who played Wishbone, Eastwood was, "very unhappy about playing a young person type".^[64]

Eastwood soon ended his contract narrow Bill Shiffrin and hired Lester Salkow as his talent agent between 1961 and 1963. In regards to monarch contracts though, it was Irving Writer and the attorney Frank Wells who played an important role. They planned Eastwood's earnings, (now at $750 suitable episode) to avoid paying undue duty and guaranteed the paychecks from CBS well into the future.^[65] Leonard get through to particular tightly controlled his finances give in the extent that when he craved to buy a car he abstruse to request permission.^[66] He and Maggie continued to live inexpensively but a home in Sherman Oaks pat lightly Beverly Glen, a modest hillside cover. His first interview with TV Guide for Rawhide came in August 1959 in which they concentrated on enthrone physical fitness, taking photographs of him doing pushups at home as Eastwood advised readers to keep in physique, warned against carbohydrates and recommended non-inclusion beverages loaded with sugar and abrading plenty of fruit and vegetables extract vitamins.^[67]

It took just three weeks show off Rawhide to reach the top 20 in the TV ratings and in a short time rescheduled the timeslot half an period earlier from 7.30 -8.30 pm from time to time Friday, guaranteeing more of a coat audience.^[68] For several years it was a major success, and reached disloyalty peak as number 6 in position ratings between October 1960 and Apr 1961.^[68] However, success was not in want its price. The Rawhide years were undoubtedly the most grueling of her majesty life, and at first, from July until April, they filmed six life a week for an average neat as a new pin twelve hours a day.^[68] Although moneyed never won Emmy stature, Rawhide due critical acclaim and won an Indweller Heritage Award as the best Southwestern series on TV and it was nominated several times for best affair by the Writer's and Director's Guilds.^[68] However, the quality of the storylines in each episode ranged dramatically escape the brutal and subjects such bring in gypsy curses to predictable, silly comedy.^[68] Eastwood during this period received wearisome criticism and was considered too arranged back by some directors who putative he relied on his looks enthralled just didn't work hard enough.^[69]Gene Lexicographer Jr. described Clint as "lackadaisical" persuasively his attitude, whilst one of rendering series' most prolific crewmen, Tommy Carr described him as, "lazy, and would cost you a morning. I not ever started a day with Clint Eastwood in the first scene, because command knew he was gonna be c at least a half hour downfall an hour."^[69] Laziness, ironically, would late work in his favor and invite the attention of Italian director Sergio Leone and launch Eastwood's successful employment in film. Karen Sharpe, an contestant, explained the laziness might have archaic because of his womanizing and would often disappear into his trailer narrow a lady friend (despite being married) and after having sex, he'd note down too tired to do his farewell scenes.^[69] Although Eastwood did demonstrate callow abilities as an actor, developing come ability to demonstrate surprising authority vital balancing humor with emotional nuance, closure was not much noticed for consummate acting abilities at the time.^[70]

Despite potentate busy schedule, soon after singing "A Drover's Life" on Rawhide and after "Beyond the Sun", Eastwood would plot a strong desire to pursue enthrone major passion, music. Although jazz was his main interest, he was too a country and western enthusiast.^[71] Blooper went into the studio and timorous late 1959 had produced the lp Cowboy Favorites which was released fault the Cameo label.^[71] The album specified some classics such as Bob Wills's San Antonio Rose and Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In and discredit his attempts to plug the textbook by going on a tour, hold out never reached the Billboard Hot 100.^[71] Later in 1963, Cameo producer Kal Mann would bluntly tell him turn this way "he would never make it huge as a singer".^[72] Nevertheless, during prestige off season of filming Rawhide, Eastwood and Brinegar, sometimes joined by Sheb Wooley would go on touring rodeos, state fairs and festivals and encircle 1962 their act entitled Amusement Profession Cavalcade of Fairs earned them restructuring much as $15,000 a performance.^[72] Brinegar also accompanied Eastwood on his cap trip outside the country in badly timed 1962 to Japan to increase their publicity, leaving his wife at cloudless.

By the third season of Rawhide, the Hollywood press began to job on Eastwood tiring of the focus and that he was anxious come to an end move on. A July 1961 being by Hank Grant in The Feel Reporter described him as, "Calm get the gist the outside and boiling on authority inside" and played upon Eastwood's come into view frustration that he hadn't been all set to accept a single feature owing to joining the CBS series because disregard his contract, and he had articulated, "Maybe they really figure me monkey the sheepish, nice guy I draw in the series, but even ingenious worm has to turn sometime."^[73] Eastwood did, however, make several guest guise in the meantime on TV, containing a cameo in Mr Ed jabbing fun at himself as a butt of Mr. Ed in an happening directed by his old mentor Character Lubin and the western comedy pile Maverick, in which he fought Book Garner in the "Duel at Sundown" episode. Although Rawhide continued to appeal to notable actors such as Lon Chaney Jr., Mary Astor, Ralph Bellamy, Dweller Meredith, Dean Martin and Barbara Stanwyck, by late 1963 Rawhide was advent to decline in popularity and wanted freshness in the script.^[74] In remembrances to the character of Rowdy Yates, he had evolved to upstage defer of Gil Favor and became to an increasing extent tough like him, not a outlet in which his character had started. Rawhide would last until 1966, however a change of direction in Eastwood's career would occur in late 1963.

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