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Clint Eastwood

  • Sep 8, 2012
  • Sep 8, 2012 Updated Apr 20, 2016

Clint Eastwood is still in the line of fire after his Republican National Convention star turn. Here's a photo retrospective of his life to make your day.

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

**FILE**Actor Clint Eastwood is shown in character in this undated photo. Eastwood will add another award to his collection: a Golden Boot. Eastwood, 76, will receive the Founders Award from the Motion Picture & Television Fund at the 24th annual Golden Boot Awards, to be held Aug. 12 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, it was announced Tuesday, June 13, 2006. (AP Photo)

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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

FILE - This Aug. 30, 2012 file photo shows actor Clint Eastwood addressing an empty chair at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. More than a week after Clint Eastwood delivered a speech to the Republican National Convention, the veteran Hollywood actor-director continues to be mocked for his peculiar, rambling conversation with an imaginary President Barack Obama in an empty chair on stage, begging the question: Will his latest film also be playing to empty seats when it debuts later this month? (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)

Charles Dharapak

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood receives an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., Sunday, May 28, 2000. Eastwood's complete papers are housed in Wesleyan's Cinema Archives. (AP Photo/Steve Miller)

STEVE MILLER

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood at Mayoral debate, Feb. 21, 1986 in Carmel, Calif. (AP Photo/Orville Myers)

Orville Myers

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

American actor Clint Eastwood holds his hand to his head as he ponders a question from a reporter during a press conference in Cannes for his film ?Pale Rider,? Monday, May 13, 1985. Eastwood is the director and the star in the film which is in competition in the 38th Cannes Film Festival. (AP Photo/Don Mell)

Don Mell

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood looks over a People’s Choice Award as award presenter Lee Martin looks, Thursday, March 15, 1985 during the 11th Annual People’s Choice Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica. Eastwood was voted favorite movie actor. (AP Photo/Lennox Mclendon)

Lennox Mclendon

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor-director Clint Eastwood scratches his head while answering a question from a film critic the preview of his new film, ?Bronco Billy.? Eastwood plays the title role the hero of a modern, traveling Wild West, May, 11, 1980. (AP Photo)

Anonymous

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood holds the Distinguished Career Award voted him by the board of the National Association of Theatre Owners during presentation, Monday, Feb. 12, 1980 in Los Angeles. At right is actress Susan Anton, who was co-hostess of the evening. Eastwood was cited by the theatre owners for his career as actor, director and filmmaker. (AP Photo/Saxon)

Saxon

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood and actress Barbra Streisand admire their Golden Globes after they were presented to them at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes Awards in Hollywood, California on Feb. 6, 1971. They both won their awards for being named “World Film Favorites.” (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

Ed Widdis

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood pauses as he signs his name into immortality in the wet concrete in the forecourt of Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood in Aug. 21, 1984. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)

LENNOX MCLENDON

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood, as detective Harry Callahan, gets ready to throw away a Molotov cocktail that was planted in the back seat of his car by a villain during the filming of "Sudden Impact" on a San Francisco pier, Ca., June 9, 1983. The action movie, the third sequel to "Dirty Harry," is directed by Eastwood. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

ERIC RISBERG

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor, director and producer Clint Eastwood is shown at a screening of his movie "Honkytonk Man" with Alexa Kenin, left, and son Kyle, both costars in the movie, and his daughter Alison, right, in Los Angeles, Ca., Dec. 13, 1982. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

REED SAXON

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood cradles an armadillo in his arms during filming of "Two Mules For Sister Sara" on location in Mexico, Oct. 27, 1969. (AP Photo)

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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood, who?s to take over in the fall as the No. 1 star of television?s ?Rawhide? after a long time as co-star, stops for coffee during filming in Hollywood, July, 31, 1965. Eastwood, first spotted as a potential cowboy-type actor when he was a GI, recently became a top star in Italy thanks to his role in a European film widely exhibited in Italian movie houses. (AP Photo/DFS)

David Smith

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood, color transparencies of him in a car with a camera in 1962. (AP Photo)

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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Away from the rough-and-tumble life of a Western TV star, actor Clint Eastwood finds his much-desired rest and quiet in his spacious Hollywood Hills home overlooking the San Fernando Valley, Oct. 25, 1965. He enjoys time in the den, comfortably attired, Clint studies a new camera he has just bought. (AP Photo/David Smith)

David Smith

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

A helpful male, actor Clint Eastwood keeps the bits of tile handy for a mosaic his wife Margaret is making, in their home at Hollywood Hills, Calif, Oct. 25, 1962. Clint finds the floor a nice spot to rest as he helps. (AP Photo/David Smith)

David Smith

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood?s wife teaches him the twist in their new home, March 22, 1962 in San Fernando Valley, outside Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

Anonymous

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood, in the role of Rowdy Yates, and Slim Pickens, making a guest appearance as a sheriff in the episode "The Backshooters," are shown on the set of "Rawhide" in Hollywood, Ca., June 4, 1965. (AP Photo)

AP

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

It?s not all work and no play for one of TV?s busiest actors, Clint Eastwood who plays the role of Rowdy Yates on the CBS-TV ?Rawhide? series. Away from the studio he finds rest and relaxation, fun and frolic at his home in Hollywood, April, 19, 1960. Here, his wife Maggie refuses Clint?s invitation to try the water in the swimming pool outside their Hollywood home. (AP Photo)

Anonymous

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood in a Western Film undated . (AP Photo)

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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood holds up a six-pack of a new beer called Pale Rider Ale at his restaurant in Carmel, Calif., Tuesday, July 22, 1997. The beer is named after Eastwood's famous 1985 western film, Pale Rider. Some of the proceeds from the beer will go to charity. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

PAUL SAKUMA

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Eastwood smiles and gives a thoughtful eye during first city council meeting as Mayor of Carmel by the sea, May 7, 1986. (AP Photo)

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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Eastwood smiles and gives a thoughtful eye during first city council meeting as Mayor of Carmel by the sea, May 7, 1986. (AP Photo)

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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood gives the victory sign, Tuesday, April 9, 1986 after winning the election for mayor of Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif., against incumbent Charlotte Townsend. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Paul Sakuma

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood, 55, gets out of voting booth after voting, Tuesday, April 8, 1986 in Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif. Eastwood is running for mayor of the small seaside community. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Paul Sakuma

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor Clint Eastwood sits next to a fence during a press conference on his last day of the campaign for the Mayor of Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif., Monday, April 7, 1986. Eastwood, 55, said he felt confident about winning his first election. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Paul Sakuma

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Actor and Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood and first lady Nancy Reagan discuss cues before taping public service announcements at Universal Studios in Universal City, Ca., May 14, 1987. The series of ten thirty-second announcements will emphasize to children and adults that "drugs can kill." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

NICK UT

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood and an orangutan named Clyde in 1978 are teamed in the new film comedy ?Every Which Way But Loose.? Eastwood, star of the ?Dirty Harry? films, wins the 165-pound ape as the result of a bet, and the two get into the out of a number of scrapes. (AP Photo)

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