Eastwood

American

[eest-wood] / ˈistˌwʊd /

noun

Clint, born 1930, U.S. actor and director.

Eastwood British

/ ˈiːstwʊd /

noun

Clint. born 1930, US film actor and director. His films as an actor include The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966), Dirty Harry (1971), and as actor and director Play Misty for Me (1971), Unforgiven (1993), Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004), and Gran Torino (2008)

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Director Clint Eastwood turned the saga of Walter’s mother’s quest for him into a film, “Changeling,”

From Los Angeles Times

Then he found his answer in the live-action classics he venerates, noticing the surge of feeling Leone created by simply letting the camera linger on Clint Eastwood’s face for a few languid beats at points throughout his Westerns.

From Salon

It also served as the backdrop of the 1996 action thriller The Rock starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage and the 1979 drama Escape from Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood.

From BBC

Alliance MP Sorcha Eastwood agreed with the decision to pass the remedial order, insisting that the UK should not "lower its standards".

From BBC

Reiner was finally nominated for a best picture Academy Award in 1994 for “A Few Good Men,” starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise, though the movie lost out that year to Clint Eastwood’s Western “Unforgiven.”

From Los Angeles Times

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