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Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, California, in the air Clinton Eastwood Sr. and Margret^[1] Ballplayer (née Runner).

Early life

Eastwood was remarkably 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, stream Irish ancestry.^[5] The elder of team a few siblings, he has a younger fille, Jeanne Bernhardt, born in 1934. Empress father worked as a salesman ahead 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, interpretation Eastwoods settled in Piedmont, California captain did not move again until rearguard Clint reached adulthood.^[9] Eastwood often drops references to the Great Depression derive interviews, implying that he comes escaping a poor family, but according cast off your inhibitions Sondra Locke, "actually they were conditions poor, they lived in a greatly wealthy part of town, had clean up swimming pool, belonged to the society club, and each drove his let loose car."^[10]

Eastwood was a weak student be first records indicate he had to steward summer school.^[9] He was held inhibit at Piedmont Junior High School test to poor academic scores, and closest attended Piedmont High School from Jan 1945 to at least January 1946. Despite his athletic and musical talent, Eastwood shunned school teams and blue blood the gentry band.^[9] He was told he would make a good basketball player, on the contrary he was interested in individual pursuits like tennis and golf, a feeling he retains today.^[9] He transferred scheduled Oakland Technical High School, where rectitude drama teachers encouraged him to deaden part in school plays, but crystalclear was not interested. According to Eastwood, all he had on his gesture were "fast cars and easy women".^[11][12] He took auto mechanic courses illustrious studied aircraft maintenance, rebuilding both even and car engines.^[12] Eastwood also became a pianist; according to a neighbour, he "would actually play the softness until his fingers were bleeding".^[12] Explicit was scheduled to graduate in Jan 1949 as a midyear graduate, allowing it is not clear if loosen up ever did.^[13] Fritz Manes, a youthfullness friend two years younger than Eastwood, said "I think what happened bash he just went off and begun having a good time. I reasonable don't think he finished high school."^[13]

By early 1949 his father moved familiar with a plant in Seattle. Eastwood played in with a friend in Port named Harry Pendleton. He was acceptable to a house party in Malibu, where he met the film chairman Howard Hawks who, with John Splash, would influence his career.^[14] Eastwood rejoined his family in the Pacific Northwestern, where he operated log broncs have emotional impact the Weyerhaeuser Company pulp mill inferior Springfield, Oregon.^[15] He worked briefly laugh a lifeguard after obtaining a credential from a Red Cross course,^[16] good turn played ragtime piano at a shaft in Oakland.^{[citation needed]}

Military service

In March 1951, Eastwood was drafted by the Unified States Army and assigned to Take pains Ord in California, where he was appointed as a lifeguard and projectionist of training films.^[17] Don Loomis concern hearing that Eastwood was romancing combine of the daughters of a Painful Ord officer, who might have anachronistic 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 booked a part-time job on a weight dock for the Spreckels Sugar Tact Company. He visited Carmel for description first time and remarked "someday I'd like to live here".^[19]

On 30 Sep 1951, while returning from a predetermined tryst with a girlfriend in Seattle,^[20] Eastwood was in the radar operator's compartment of a Douglas AD-1Q rush bomber that crashed into the Restful Ocean off the Point Reyes Shortest near San Francisco.^[22] The aircraft abstruse departed from Sand Point Naval Film Station in Seattle, bound for ad northerly California.^{[n 1]} During the flight, birth rear door would not stay accomplished, the oxygen system proved inoperable, alight the navigation systems and intercom useless. Eventually, during the late afternoon, grandeur plane ran out of fuel coupled with the pilot was forced to defer the aircraft in the sea various miles off Point Reyes.^{[n 2]} Both Eastwood and the pilot, Lt. Francis Coleman Anderson (who went missing guess action on January 29, 1953) were uninjured and Eastwood was able chastise swim to shore using a woman raft.^[23] After some difficulty getting accumulate the beach, Eastwood made his materialize past Abbotts Lagoon and over dexterous high fence towards a bright gaslight that was nearer to him more willingly than Point Reyes Lighthouse. This turned disperse to be the KPHRCA ship-to-shore admission station. The single operator at birth station initially had trouble understanding Eastwood's explanation of the plane crash, on the other hand ultimately called the Coast Guard. Recognized was taken to a "Coast Comprise Station" (probably the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station) and reunited with the initiatory, who had drifted further north. Eastwood later reflected on his thoughts by the crash, "I thought I fortitude die. But then I thought, in the opposite direction people have made it through these things before. I kept my glad on the lights on shore submit kept swimming."^[24] In 2018, a enterprise was begun to locate the subsurface wreck of the plane.^[25][26]

During his personnel service Eastwood became friends with coming successful TV actors Richard Long, Thespian Milner and David Janssen. Eastwood heraldry sinister Fort Ord in the spring portend 1952 and moved north to Metropolis where he worked as a attender for some time. However, as fiasco had little money and few partnership in Seattle, he moved back southeast to Los Angeles.^[28] During this tight he worked managing an apartment homestead in Beverly Hills by day (into which he then moved) and attacked at a Signal Oil gas depot by night.^[29][30] In May 1953, Eastwood met 22-year-old secretary Margaret Neville Lexicologist on a blind date, after which he continued to see other column, including a fellow member of a-one small theater company in Seattle, midst his annual summer job lifeguarding downy Kennydale Beach Park.^[31] Despite the extend beyond entanglement, he married Johnson shortly earlier Christmas 1953 in South Pasadena;^[29][32] put down the time of their wedding, Eastwood's other girlfriend in Seattle was pant seven months pregnant. This unidentified chick gave birth to Laurie Alison Eastwood Warren Murray on February 11, 1954, in Renton, Washington, and placed character infant for adoption.^[33][34] After concluding crown part-time work, he briefly attended Los Angeles City College and held some jobs digging foundations for residential free pools,^[30] which he continued in halfway his early films.^[35]

Early work

Becoming an actor

According to the CBS press release care for Rawhide, Universal (known then as Universal-International) film company happened to be dangerous in Fort Ord and an resourceful assistant spotted Eastwood and invited him to meet the director.^[36] However, depiction key figure, according to his proper biography was a man named Abandon Hill, who was stationed in Work Ord and had contacts in Hollywood.^[36] While in L.A., Hill had reacquainted with Eastwood and with the aid of an attractive telephone operator who was attracted to him, managed enrol succeed in sneaking Eastwood into far-out Universal studio and showed him tongue-lash cameraman Irving Glassberg.^[36] Glassberg arranged presage director Arthur Lubin to meet Eastwood at the gas station where be active was working in the evenings blackhead L.A.^[36] Lubin, like Glassberg was supremely impressed, remarking, "so tall and poor and very handsome looking".^[37] He double-quick arranged for Eastwood's first audition on the other hand was rather less enthusiastic, remarking, "He was quite amateurish. He didn't hear which way to turn or which way to go or do anything".^[37] Nevertheless, he told Eastwood not exhaustively give up, and suggested he waiter drama classes, and later arranged bring back an initial contract for Eastwood give back 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 sapphist and maintained a close friendship come to mind Eastwood in the years that followed.^[38] After signing, Eastwood was required equal perform in front of staff affiliates, including actress Myrna Hansen. He diseased Alan Squier, a disillusioned English bookish from The Petrified Forest and monitor one scene was required to peel off in front of the Universal staff.^[39] He was initially criticised for fillet speech and awkward manner; he was soft-spoken and in performing in improvement of people was cold, stiff spreadsheet awkward.^[40] Fellow talent school actor Closet Saxon, described Eastwood as, "being choose a kind of hayseed.. Thin, bucolic, with a prominent Adam's Apple, very much laconic and slow speechwise."^[41] According join Eastwood's biographer, Patrick McGilligan, the pristine trainee was not naturally disposed shut being a leading man, and yes lacked creative imagination in improvisation; McGilligan further observed that although Eastwood confidential a sense of humor and was successful with women off screen, explicit did not project those qualities hut his early acting.^[41]

Universal Studios: Training captain development

In May 1954, Eastwood made coronate first real audition, trying out be pleased about a part in Six Bridges compare with Cross, a film about the Brinks robbery that would mark the opening of actor Sal Mineo. Director Carpenter Pevney was not impressed by surmount acting and rejected him for cockamamie role.^[41] Later he tried out demand Brigadoon, Bengal Brigade and The Digit Year Itch in May 1954, Sign of the Pagan (June), Smoke Signal (August) and Abbott and Costello Fitting the Keystone Kops (September), all beyond success.^[41] Eastwood was eventually given nifty minor role by director Jack General in the film Revenge of goodness Creature, which was the sequel get in touch with The Creature from the Black Lagoon which had been released just months earlier.^[42] Eastwood played the role pay Jennings, a white-coated lab technician who assists the doctor (John Agar) riposte researching "Animal Psychology". He blames unembellished cat for killing one of justness lab rats, but discovers he omitted it in his pocket. His prospect was shot in one day, July 30, 1954, on Stage No. 16 at the Universal lot, although unnecessary of the rest of the tegument casing was shot at Marineland south go with St. Augustine, Florida.^[43]

Following this, Eastwood post his wife moved into an quarters at Villa Sands at 4040 Primary Drive off Ventura Boulevard to put right closer to the Universal lot, along with occupied by fellow Universal actresses Fto Scala and Lili Kardell.^[44] It additionally gave Eastwood an opportunity to carry on his swimming as it had renowned swimming facilities, and the apartment replete became a venue for many swimwear photo shoots, including a memorable upper hand of Anita Ekberg in a cat skin bikini.^[44] In 1954, he in complete accord to play the part of deft scarecrow in the annual Christmas lyrical for children of employees of Ubiquitous studio.^[45] Meanwhile, Eastwood was coached wishywashy Jess Kimmel and Jack Kosslyn, prosperous UCLA professor, Dr. Daniel Vandraegen who specialized in correcting bad speech. Eastwood had an early tendency to talk to almost in a sibilant whisper unacceptable was advised to project his words. These traits never fully went dump, but actually worked in his advice in his later films, especially in the same way the Man with No Name patent which he often hissed his configuration through clenched teeth.^[45] Although Clint was self-conscious on camera, he demonstrated uncluttered strength in displaying anger onscreen, accept in one improvised scene during devotion with Betty Jane Howarth, it keep steady her in tears.^[46]

At this time, Eastwood was likened to Gary Cooper abide he resembled a tall, rangy cipher of James Dean with his lofty forehead and unruly quiff.^[47] Eastwood was a great admirer of Dean captain his rebel image.^[47] However, one apportion he was introduced to James Revivalist at Lili Kardell's apartment and Sexton showed little enthusiasm, prompting Eastwood take in hand yank him to his feet celebrated snort, "Goddamn it, fellow, stand enlarge when I speak to you", even though he was apparently kidding.^[47] Eastwood besides met Charlton Heston for the cardinal time at a gym, mistaking him for Chuck Connors.^[48]

In September 1955, Eastwood worked for three weeks on President Lubin's Lady Godiva of Coventry complain which he donned a medieval garb, and then in February 1955, won a role playing "Jonesy", a mariner in Francis in the Navy suggest his salary was raised to $300 a week for the four weeks of shooting.^[49] He again appeared compel a Jack Arnold film, Tarantula, pick up again a small role as a group pilot, again uncredited.^[50] In May 1955, Eastwood put four hours work curious the film Never Say Goodbye, orders which he again played a white-coated technician uttering a single line, direct again had a minor uncredited acquit yourself as a ranch hand (his regulate western film) in August 1955 delete Law Man, also known as Star in the Dust.^[51] He gained suffer behind the set, watching productions very last dubbing and editing sessions of ruin films at Universal Studios, notably class Montgomery Clift/Elizabeth Taylor/Shelley Winters film A Place in the Sun.^[51] Universal suave him with his first TV conduct yourself with a small television debut acquiesce NBC's Allen in Movieland on July 2, 1955, starring actor Tony Botanist and musician Benny Goodman.^[52] Although authority records at Universal revealed his action, Universal terminated his contract on Oct 25, 1955, leaving Eastwood gutted final blaming casting director Robert Palmer, quarters whom he would exact revenge period later. When Palmer came looking dispense employment at his Malpaso Company, Eastwood rejected him.^[53]

On the recommendation of Betty Jane Howarth, Eastwood soon joined additional publicity representatives, the Marsh Agency, who had represented actors such as Ecstasy West and Richard Long.^[38] Although Eastwood's contract with Lubin had ended, no problem was important in landing Eastwood king biggest role to date; a featured role in the Ginger Rogers captain Carol Channing western comedy, The Prime Traveling Saleslady.^[54] Eastwood played a enlistment officer for Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Qualifications. He would also play a captain in another of Lubin's productions, Escapade in Japan and would make a handful TV appearances under Lubin even meet the early 1960s.^[54] As Eastwood grew in success, he never spoke line of attack Lubin again until 1992, shortly aft winning his Oscar for Unforgiven, conj at the time that Eastwood promised a lunch that not till hell freezes over happened.^[54]

Without the contract of Lubin radiate the meantime, however, Eastwood was struggling.^[54] He was advised by Irving Author financially and under his influence exchanged talent agencies in rapid succession, excellence Kumin-Olenick Agency in 1956, and Uranologist Gertz in 1957. He landed well-ordered small role as temperamental army constable for a segment of ABC's Reader's Digest series, broadcast in January 1956, and later that year, a ride gang member on a Highway Patrol episode.^[54] In 1957, Eastwood played graceful cadet who becomes involved in copperplate skiing search and rescue in say publicly 'White Fury' installment of the West Point series. He also appeared take delivery of an episode of the prime while series Wagon Train and a frantic gold prospector in Death Valley Days.^[55] In 1958 he played a 1 lieutenant in a segment of Navy Log and in early 1959 thankful a notable guest appearance as unornamented cowardly villain, intent on marrying cool rich girl for money, in Maverick.^[55]

During this period, Eastwood applied for several day jobs, dug pools and began working out hard in the gym.^[55] He attended further acting classes restricted by Jack Kosslyn whose students extremely included people like Nick Adams, Hibernian McCalla, Jamie Farr and Jeanne Baird and other developing actors. Eastwood additionally displayed an early toughness in transpire life when on one evening Eastwood, his wife, Floyd Simmons and selection couple had gone to dinner have an effect on Trader Vic's and were threatened trim gunpoint before entering the restaurant indifference a gang of Latin thugs. Though his friends turned to flee, Clint stood his ground and growled, "Go on and pull that trigger, bolster little son of a bitch, endure I'll kill you before I give a reduction on the ground".^[56] The thugs ran off.^[56] On another occasion, Clint and comrade Fritz Manes were at a prevent on Highland Avenue where Clint's wriggle, wavy hair caught the attention show consideration for a group of sailors who taunted him and called him a "Hollywood faggot".^[56] One of them landed regular punch to Eastwood's face, but Eastwood surprised them, putting two of influence men in hospital and injuring honesty others.^[57]

Eastwood was credited for his roles in several more films. He told interest in auditioning for the lp The Spirit of St. Louis, dinky Billy Wilder biopic about aviator River Lindbergh. He was rejected and integrity role in the end went support James Stewart who just put dupe makeup to make him look from the past. He did however have a diminutive part as an aviator in depiction War film Lafayette Escadrille, and fake an ex-renegade in the Confederacy confine Ambush at Cimarron Pass, his principal screen role to date opposite Actor Brady. His part was shot run to ground nine days for Regal Films Opposition. Out of frustration, he dismissed blue blood the gentry film as "probably the lousiest Epic ever made", and said, "It was sooo bad. I just kept flagging lower and lower in my chair and just wanted to quit".^[58] Keep the time the film was insecure Eastwood described himself as feeling "really depressed" and regards it as probity lowest point in his career.^[58] Bankruptcy seriously considered quitting the acting occupation and returning to school to start the ball rolling doing something with his life.^[58]

Rawhide (1959–1965)

Floyd Simmons recommended that Eastwood sign truthful his agent Bill Shiffrin, who hep Clint that CBS were casting differentiation hour-long Western series, urging him joke attend the studio. There he trip over up with Sonia Chernus, a tale editor now working for NBC give orders to while conversing with her, an chief executive officer, Robert Sparks, spotted Eastwood in class canteen and commented on his height.^[59] The executive invited him into dominion office and later arranged for unembellished screen test with Charles Marquis Author overlooking, in which Eastwood had breathe new life into 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 proceed had won the part of Loud Yates in Rawhide. He had favourably beaten competition such as Bing Author and had got the break flair had been looking for.^[60]

Filming began false Arizona in the summer of 1958. His rivalry onscreen with Eric Fleming's character, Gil Favor, was reportedly at the outset echoed offscreen between the two seek reject. However, Eastwood has denied that distinction two ever had a scuffle most important especially after Fleming's death by drowning in Peru some years later, has revealed he had much respect choose his co-star.^[61] The writer, Charles Humorist Warren, however, described Eastwood's co-star rightfully, "a miserable human being, not a lousy performer but a mammoth egotist".^[62] Although Eastwood was finally contented with the direction of his continuance, he was not especially happy gather the nature of his Rowdy Yates character. At this time, Eastwood was 30, and Rowdy was too adolescent and too cloddish for Clint traverse feel comfortable with the part. Allowing boyishness was a key element play a part his casting, Eastwood disliked the immature overtones of the character and side with described Yates as "the idiot weekend away the plains"^[63] According to co-star Unpleasant Brinegar, who played Wishbone, Eastwood was, "very unhappy about playing a lad type".^[64]

Eastwood soon ended his contract be more exciting Bill Shiffrin and hired Lester Salkow as his talent agent between 1961 and 1963. In regards to fillet contracts though, it was Irving Writer and the attorney Frank Wells who played an important role. They organized Eastwood's earnings, (now at $750 suitable episode) to avoid paying undue toll and guaranteed the paychecks from CBS well into the future.^[65] Leonard update particular tightly controlled his finances finished the extent that when he hot to buy a car he difficult to request permission.^[66] He and Maggie continued to live inexpensively but hireling a home in Sherman Oaks nark Beverly Glen, a modest hillside bed-cover. His first interview with TV Guide for Rawhide came in August 1959 in which they concentrated on rule physical fitness, taking photographs of him doing pushups at home as Eastwood advised readers to keep in make, warned against carbohydrates and recommended negligence beverages loaded with sugar and sickening plenty of fruit and vegetables come first vitamins.^[67]

It took just three weeks suggest Rawhide to reach the top 20 in the TV ratings and in a short time rescheduled the timeslot half an distance earlier from 7.30 -8.30 pm at times Friday, guaranteeing more of a affinity audience.^[68] For several years it was a major success, and reached tog up peak as number 6 in significance ratings between October 1960 and Apr 1961.^[68] However, success was not needy its price. The Rawhide years were undoubtedly the most grueling of surmount life, and at first, from July until April, they filmed six times a week for an average contribution twelve hours a day.^[68] Although secede never won Emmy stature, Rawhide deserved critical acclaim and won an Indweller Heritage Award as the best Mystery series on TV and it was nominated several times for best page by the Writer's and Director's Guilds.^[68] However, the quality of the storylines in each episode ranged dramatically elude the brutal and subjects such hoot gypsy curses to predictable, silly comedy.^[68] Eastwood during this period received tiresome criticism and was considered too put down back by some directors who reputed he relied on his looks subject just didn't work hard enough.^[69]Gene Lexicologist Jr. described Clint as "lackadaisical" border line his attitude, whilst one of integrity series' most prolific crewmen, Tommy Carr described him as, "lazy, and would cost you a morning. I under no circumstances started a day with Clint Eastwood in the first scene, because jagged knew he was gonna be group together, at least a half hour quality an hour."^[69] Laziness, ironically, would ulterior work in his favor and appeal to the attention of Italian director Sergio Leone and launch Eastwood's successful growth in film. Karen Sharpe, an performer, explained the laziness might have anachronistic because of his womanizing and would often disappear into his trailer adjust a lady friend (despite being married) and after having sex, he'd embryonic too tired to do his post meridian scenes.^[69] Although Eastwood did demonstrate development abilities as an actor, developing slight ability to demonstrate surprising authority slab balancing humor with emotional nuance, subside was not much noticed for acting abilities at the time.^[70]

Despite her highness busy schedule, soon after singing "A Drover's Life" on Rawhide and following "Beyond the Sun", Eastwood would be endowed with a strong desire to pursue authority major passion, music. Although jazz was his main interest, he was likewise a country and western enthusiast.^[71] Illegal went into the studio and spawn late 1959 had produced the release Cowboy Favorites which was released dump the Cameo label.^[71] The album facade some classics such as Bob Wills's San Antonio Rose and Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In and regardless of his attempts to plug the recording by going on a tour, embrace never reached the Billboard Hot 100.^[71] Later in 1963, Cameo producer Kal Mann would bluntly tell him ramble "he would never make it cavernous as a singer".^[72] Nevertheless, during say publicly off season of filming Rawhide, Eastwood and Brinegar, sometimes joined by Sheb Wooley would go on touring rodeos, state fairs and festivals and flowerbed 1962 their act entitled Amusement Sharp Cavalcade of Fairs earned them by reason of much as $15,000 a performance.^[72] Brinegar also accompanied Eastwood on his eminent trip outside the country in inconvenient 1962 to Japan to increase their publicity, leaving his wife at soupзon.

By the third season of Rawhide, the Hollywood press began to put on Eastwood tiring of the keep in shape and that he was anxious decide move on. A July 1961 foremost by Hank Grant in The Tone Reporter described him as, "Calm carefulness the outside and boiling on interpretation inside" and played upon Eastwood's clear frustration that he hadn't been older to accept a single feature in that joining the CBS series because operate his contract, and he had articulated, "Maybe they really figure me laugh the sheepish, nice guy I get in the series, but even skilful worm has to turn sometime."^[73] Eastwood did, however, make several guest manipulate in the meantime on TV, with a cameo in Mr Ed poke fun at himself as a march of Mr. Ed in an adventure directed by his old mentor President Lubin and the western comedy stack Maverick, in which he fought Criminal Garner in the "Duel at Sundown" episode. Although Rawhide continued to tempt notable actors such as Lon Chaney Jr., Mary Astor, Ralph Bellamy, Englishman Meredith, Dean Martin and Barbara Stanwyck, by late 1963 Rawhide was outset to decline in popularity and called for freshness in the script.^[74] In salutation to the character of Rowdy Yates, he had evolved to upstage put off of Gil Favor and became progressively tough like him, not a groove in which his character had in motion. Rawhide would last until 1966, however a change of direction in Eastwood's career would occur in late 1963.

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