After a series of tiny parts and walk-ons, Eastwood nabbed a plum role as Rowdy Yates in the TV show Rawhide. Born during the Great Depression, this California native would work his way though odd jobs and a stint in the army (as a lifeguard) before becoming a contract player at Universal. There have been numerous new Oliviers over the years, but there has only been one Eastwood. But I still can do things that have some quality.” “With my physical type and legato personality, I’ll never play certain parts. Here’s a look back at some of the defining performances of his storied career.“I’m never be a Laurence Olivier,” Clint Eastwood said, back in 1971.
But the notes he hits are played with a master’s flare.Įastwood returns to screens this Friday in “Cry Macho,” still going strong at age 91. There’s an inherent “Clint-ness” to all of his performances. In later life masterpieces like “Bridges of Madison County” and “Million Dollar Baby,” Eastwood’s still a loner, still tougher than everyone else on the screen, yet willing to show the ravages of time, gruffly holding off the dying of the light. As Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan, Eastwood explodes on the screen with a kind of laconic intensity, daring crooks and psychopaths to “go ahead, make my day.” And somehow, over the decades, that persona has ripened, with Eastwood allowing moviegoers to see him grow more vulnerable. In Sergio Leone films, he’s the “man with no name,” staring down adversaries with a deadly squint and a malevolent hint of a grin, his craggy face mirroring the rocky landscape of the Spanish countryside where the spaghetti westerns were shot. Clint Eastwood is often viewed more as an icon than an actor.
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