Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American filmmaker and actor, having nabbed heaping amounts of praise and several gold statues of naked bald men for his achievements as a director. He was born in San Francisco, California on May 31st, 1930. Eastwood's career began in the mid 1950s, and coincidentally, he got his start in the horror genre. Prior to playing cigar-chomping raspy-voiced cowboys or .44 Magnum-toting detectives with hygiene issues, Clint Eastwood playing a dude named Jennings in Revenge of the Creature in 1955, which was the first sequel to the 1954 Universal Pictures classic, Creature from the Black Lagoon. Eastwood was uncredited in the film in this capacity. After making bit appearances in films such as Francis in the Navy and Lady Godiva of Coventry, Clint had another uncredited role in a creature feature when he played a jet squadron leader in the 1955 movie Tarantula.

Notes & Trivia

 * Clint appeared in a 1967 film called The Witches, but this was actually a comedy and not a horror movie.


 * Clint Eastwood's first work as a director was in 1971 with the thriller Play Misty for Me. It's not a horror movie, but maintains some elements used in horror lore such as an obsessive lover willing to commit murder to get what they want.


 * Clint Eastwood is the father of Scott Eastwood, an actor in his own right, who played the role of unscrupulous Texas sheriff's deputy Carl Hartman in the 2013 slasher film Texas Chainsaw 3D.


 * Clint Eastwood is not the only guy named Clint who hails from California and has family members who are in show business. There is also Clint Howard - brother of actor/director Ron Howard, who was born in Burbank, California on April 20th, 1959.