Clint Eastwood Cover Gallery: 1950s

Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth (Runner) Eastwood, a factory worker. He was a large baby (11 pounds and 6 ounces) and was named "Samson" by the nurses in the hospital. Eastwood has English, Scottish, Dutch and Irish ancestry and was raised in a "middle class Protestant home". His family moved often,