Clint Eastwood cover gallery: Coda

In 2000, Eastwood directed and starred in Space Cowboys, which also starred Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner. In the film, he plays Frank Corvin, a retired NASA engineer called upon to save a dying Russian satellite. Space Cowboys was one of the year's commercial hits and was generally well-received and holds a 79% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. The film received a moderately

Clint Eastwood Cover Gallery: 1990s

In 1990 Eastwood starred as a character closely based on the legendary film-maker John Huston in White Hunter Black Heart, an adaptation of Peter Viertel's roman à clef about the making of the classic The African Queen. The film was shot on location in Zimbabwe in the summer of 1989, although some interiors were shot in and around Pinewood Studios in England. The small steamboat they used in the

Clint Eastwood Cover Gallery: 1980s

In 1980, Eastwood directed and played the main attraction in a traveling Wild West Show in the comedy film, Bronco Billy. His children Kyle and Alison had small roles as orphans. Eastwood starred alongside Locke, Scatman Crothers, Sam Bottoms, Dan Vadis, Sierra Pecheur and Geoff Lewis. Filming commenced on October 1, 1979 in the Boise, Idaho area and was shot in five and a half weeks on a low

Clint Eastwood Cover Gallery: 1970s part 2

After the filming of Breezy had finished, Warner Brothers announced that Eastwood had agreed to reprise his role as Detective Harry Callahan in a sequel to Dirty Harry, running under the title, Vigilance. Writer John Milius came up with a storyline in which a group of rogue young officers in the San Francisco Police Force systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals, portraying the idea

Dirty Harry: The Novels

Following the release of the third Dirty Harry movie, The Enforcer, in 1976, Clint Eastwood made it clear that he did not intend making any more. In 1981, Warner Books (the publishing arm of Warner Bros., who made the films) began publishing a number of men's adventure series, including one featuring further adventures for Harry Callahan. The books, written primarily by Richard S. (Ric) Meyers (

Clint Eastwood Cover Gallery: 1970s part 1

In 1970, Eastwood starred in the western, Two Mules for Sister Sara with Shirley MacLaine. The film, directed by Siegel, is a story about an American mercenary who gets mixed up with a whore disguised as a nun and aid a group of Juarista rebels during the puppet reign of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico. The story was initially written by Budd Boetticher, who was later sacked and replaced with Albert

Clint Eastwood Cover Gallery: 1960s

In late 1963, an offer was made to Eastwood's co-star Eric Fleming on Rawhide to star in an Italian made western, originally to be named The Magnificent Stranger (A Fistful of Dollars) to be directed in a remote region of Spain by a relative unknown at the time, Sergio Leone. However, the money was not much, and Fleming always set his sights high on Hollywood stardom, and rejected the offer

A few 'Dollars' more

Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name was the inspiration for a series of novels published in the US by Award and in the UK by their sister company, Tandem—both were imprints of subsidiary companies (Universal-Award House Inc. and Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd.) owned by Universal Publishing & Distributing Corporation. Hence an awful lot of crossover between the two companies in the early

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,