Clint Eastwood Filmography

The Changeling

Crew: Director

Actors: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events that occurred in 1920s-era Los Angeles, Clint Eastwood's The Changeling tells the story of a woman driven to confront a corrupted LAPD after her abducted son is retrieved and she begins to suspect that the boy returned to her is not the same boy she gave birth to. The Read More

Gran Torino

Crew: Director

Actors: Clint Eastwood

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood makes his return in front and behind the camera with Gran Torino, his newest project for long-running distribution partner Warner Bros.. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Grace Is Gone

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Cusack, Shélan O'Keefe, Gracie Bednarczyk, Alessandro Nivola

Synopsis: The contemplative, understated tearjerker Grace is Gone dramatizes the quiet crisis that befalls Stanley (John Cusack), a young Midwestern husband of a female marine stationed in Iraq, and a father of two girls. Suddenly and unexpectedly widowed when his wife, Grace, is murdered on the Read More

Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Tony Bennett, Clint Eastwood

Synopsis: Hollywood music consultant Bruce Ricker teams with filmmaking legend Clint Eastwood to take an intimate look at the life and career of beloved crooner Tony Bennett. Utilizing Eastwood's interviews with the octogenarian vocalist and rare performance footage as a sturdy foundation, Ricker's Read More

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Actors: Don Rickles, Clint Eastwood, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Guest

Synopsis: As one of the few heavyweight comedians of Vegas's "Golden Age" to topline standup routines in 21st century Glitter Gulch - a time and place that saw him still reeling in massive audiences well into his 70s and 80s - Don Rickles qualifies as a show business legend. Rickles, of course, pioneered Read More

Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco

Actors: Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Saul Zaentz

Synopsis: While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists who treasure their independence and carefully guard their creative Read More

Letters from Iwo Jima

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura

Synopsis: After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama. In 1945, World War II was in Read More

Flags of Our Fathers

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Read More

Directed by John Ford

Actors: Harry Carey, Jr., Henry Fonda, Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich updates his 1971 documentary Directed by John Ford for this film of the same name, produced for the Turner Classic Movies cable network. Using old interviews with the likes of John Wayne and Henry Fonda along with new ones with modern film giants like Steven Spielberg Read More

The Spaghetti West

Synopsis: The Spaghetti West documents the film genre referred to as Spaghetti Westerns. These movies were made in Italy, where production costs were very cheap and the terrain offered perfectly believable sets, during the 1950s and '60s. While Sergio Leone became the most well-known director that made his Read More

Million Dollar Baby

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter

Synopsis: Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter never answers his letters, and a fighter he's groomed into contender status has paid him back by signing with another manager, leaving Frankie high Read More

Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

Mystic River

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer

Actors: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney

Synopsis: Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed Read More

The Blues: Piano Blues

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Marcia Ball, Pinetop Perkins, Dave Brubeck, Jay McShann, Ray Charles

Synopsis: Part of The Blues documentary film series on PBS, Piano Blues is directed by actor, filmmaker, and pianist Clint Eastwood. This installment explores the director's fascination with piano blues and jazz, starting with Fats Waller and the early stride piano sound. The sound evolved into Read More

Blood Work

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus

Synopsis: A retired detective must battle former colleagues and his own failing health in order to bring a murderer to justice in this action drama produced and directed by its star, Clint Eastwood. Terry McCaleb (Eastwood) was one of the best and most thorough detectives at the FBI's Southern California Read More

Kurosawa

Actors: Sam Shepard, Paul Scofield, James Coburn, Clint Eastwood, Shinobu Hashimoto

Synopsis: Akira Kurosawa was arguably the most important Japanese filmmaker who ever lived; he was certainly among the most revered and most influential. His award-winning feature Rashomon was one of the first major international successes in Japanese filmmaking, convincing many western cineastes for the Read More

Space Cowboys

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: In this adventure drama, four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams. Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland), and Tank Sullivan (James Garner) were top pilots within an elite Air Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

Synopsis: Following up on the debate sparked by the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films, this documentary -- originally broadcast on CBS as a three-hour special -- gives 50 stars the opportunity to introduce 50 stars. The criteria focus on lifetime achievement, hence no living Read More

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: A documentary about the iconic career of actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows traces its subject's work from his earliest days in Hollywood to his award-winning (and career-salvaging) films of the 1990s. Directed by Bruce Ricker, who also made the lauded jazz Read More

True Crime

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods

Synopsis: Investigative reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has just relocated to the west coast after getting fired from the New York Times. Thanks to his old friend, Alan Mann (James Woods), the editor-in-chief of The Oakland Tribune, Everett still has a job, but that's hardly the end of his Read More

Forever Hollywood

Actors: Sharon Stone, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges, André De Toth

Synopsis: Chief film critic of Variety and director of the acclaimed Visions of Light (1993), Todd McCarthy spins this love letter to tinseltown. Funded in part by the city of Los Angeles, the film charts Hollywood's rapid evolution from a sleepy town to a gleaming center of glamour in the 1950s to its Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

Synopsis: In June 1998, the American Film Institute announced the top 100 films of the 20th century. The list was complied from a survey of 1,500 participants, including filmmakers, historians, critics, and other entertainment industry professionals. The AFI and CBS produced this multi-packet video feature Read More

Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The world's longest running jazz celebration, The Monterey Jazz Festival has played host to some of the finest and best loved musicians in the history of the music, including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Joe Williams, Dave Brubeck and Buddy Rich. Read More

Eastwood on Eastwood

Actors: Clint Eastwood

Synopsis: This documentary takes a look at the career of film star Clint Eastwood. Narrated by John Cusack, the film features clips from the more than 30 films in which Eastwood has starred. These include Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, and In the Line of Fire. Works which he directed as well as acted are also Read More

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jack Thompson, Lady Chablis, Alison Eastwood

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood directed this adaptation of John Berendt's non-fiction best-seller about a Savannah, Georgia, murder case. When this film was released, Berendt's book had been on best-seller lists for four years. As the film begins, New York journalist John Kelso (John Cusack), alter ego of author Read More

Absolute Power

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis

Synopsis: In this thriller, an aging cat burglar becomes a crusader embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving murder and a government cover-up. Adapted by distinguished scenarist William Goldman from a novel by David Baldacci and featuring a powerful all-star cast, the story works at different Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Clint Eastwood

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies

Synopsis: In 1994, the British Film Institute commissioned a set of films to mark the centenary of the movies. They would trace the history of several national cinemas, and the BFI's choice for interpreting the history of American film fell to director Martin Scorsese, a longtime champion of film history Read More

The Bridges of Madison County

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak, Jim Haynie

Synopsis: The Bridges Of Madison County is one of those rare examples of a movie improving on the book it was based on. Adapted from the monster, if purple-prosed, best seller by Robert James Waller, the film tells the simple story of an Iowa housewife, Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep), who meets a Read More

Casper

Actors: Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle, Malachi Pearson

Synopsis: Based on the popular cartoon character, this family-oriented "ghost story" is about a not-so-scary spirit who bonds with a little girl (Christina Ricci). The eternally irritable Ms. Carrigan (Cathy Moriarty) discovers that the only thing she's been left in her recently departed father's will is a Read More

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Brian Dennehy, Lexi Randall

Synopsis: This character drama follows the exploits of an aged oil seeker, known only as Mr. Cox, as he roams across Texas in search of black gold. He has a special gift for it and has helped many wildcatters strike it rich. Unfortunately, he has yet to find his own gusher. In 1935, Cox has only a suitcase Read More

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Actors: Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Directed by the acclaimed Walter Hill and narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William Wellman (1896-1975). Ambulance driver for the French Foreign Legion and decorated American pilot in World War I, Wellman later became Read More

Don't Pave Main Street: Carmel's Heritage

A Perfect World

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer

Actors: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther, Keith Szarabajka

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood, hot off of his Academy Award win for Unforgiven, directed this small character study, appearing in the guise of a cops-and-robbers action picture. The film takes place during the fall of 1963. Eight-year old Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther), the son of a devout Jehovah's Witness Read More

In the Line of Fire

Actors: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances, as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Petersen's taut thriller In the Line of Fire. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by President Kennedy Read More

Unforgiven

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett

Synopsis: Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face Read More

Hollywood Remembers: Gary Cooper - American Life, American Legend

Synopsis: Hosted by Clint Eastwood, Hollywood Remembers: Gary Cooper -- American Life, American Legend is a biographical portrait of the life and times of movie star Gary Cooper. The 47-minute tribute chronicles the actor's life from his early days as an "extra" in silent pictures to his acceptance of the Read More

The Rookie

Crew: Director

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: In return for Warner Bros. greenlighting his pet project White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), Clint Eastwood directed and starred in this more commercial film, an action caper about a mismatched pair of auto theft cops. Eastwood is grizzled veteran detective Nick Pulovski, who's determined to bring Read More

White Hunter, Black Heart

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson

Synopsis: Something of a sleeper in its 1990 release, White Hunter, Black Heart is one of Clint Eastwood's most engaging films. It is based on Peter Vietel's novel about the location shoot of John Huston's immortal The African Queen. But the focus is never on Bogie and Hepburn. Egomaniacal director John Read More

Hollywood Remembers [Video Series]

Synopsis: A collection of videos on various Hollywood stars and their lives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Charles Rouse, Harry Colomby, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Thelonious Monk

Synopsis: This documentary of the late jazz great Thelonius Monk) (1917-1982) uses footage taken from 14 hours of European concert performances filmed in 1967-68 by Christian Blackwood. From his childhood in New York City's San Juan Hill, Monk grew up to become one of the most innovative jazz pianists of Read More

Pink Cadillac

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart, John Dennis Johnston, Michael Des Barres

Synopsis: For his third film as a director and his third film directing Clint Eastwood, stunt-man Buddy Van Horn helmed this action comedy involving a skip tracer, some neo-nazis, and the titular vehicle. Eastwood stars as Tommy Nowak, a bounty hunter with a knack for catching bail-skippers with an array of Read More

Bird

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Sam Wright, Keith David

Synopsis: Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker's musical genius, but also devotes ample time to the musician's twin demons--drugs and alcohol-which accelerated his death at the age of 34. In Read More

The Dead Pool

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Evan Kim, Liam Neeson, David Hunt

Synopsis: The Dead Pool is the fifth and (thus far) the last of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry movies. A sports pool is placing bets on which famous person will die next. Suddenly a serial killer who preys upon celebrities enters the scene, radically (and perhaps deliberately) changing the odds in the pool. Read More

Stars of the Century

Wild West

Heartbreak Ridge

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart

Synopsis: Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his Read More

Pale Rider

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: A mysterious and possibly otherworldly stranger comes to the rescue of a frontier town in this Western, which was strongly influenced by the George Stevens classic, Shane. The peace of a small mining community is shattered when Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart), the ruthless proprietor of a powerful Read More

City Heat

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn

Synopsis: This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. Speer, a taciturn, tough, play-it-by-the-book cop, and on Burt Reynolds as Mike Murphy, Speer's old friend in the force, now turned private eye but still a Read More

Tightrope

Crew: Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Jennifer Beck

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood plays a New Orleans detective determined to track down a serial killer of prostitutes. Complicating matters is the fact that the unknown culprit is very likely an S&M fetishist....and so is Eastwood. The detective is profoundly disturbed at the likelihood that he and the killer have Read More

Sudden Impact

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Paul Drake

Synopsis: In this fourth installment of the Dirty Harry series, Harry has been banished temporarily from San Francisco because his superiors are uncomfortable about his feud with a local crime boss. He goes to an oceanside small town for a little rest and recuperation but finds the town has been traumatized Read More

Firefox

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Producer/director/star Clint Eastwood takes his sweet time getting Firefox started. Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a past-his-prime U.S. pilot, smuggled into the Soviet Union to steal a new Russian supersonic fighting plane. Fortunately the KGB men are as burnt out as Gant, enabling him to abscond Read More

Honkytonk Man

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood put his tough-guy image on hold for this personal project, which follows a musician taking one final chance at the big time. Red Stovall (Eastwood) is a would-be country singer who has been bouncing around the margins of the music business for years. With nowhere in particular to Read More

Bronco Billy

Crew: Director

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Bronco Billy stars Clint Eastwood (who also directed) as the impresario of a seedy wild west show. Going along for the ride is spoiled socialite Sondra Locke, who is "initiated" by being pressed into service as the wrong end of a knife-throwing act. The rest of the troupe, like Eastwood himself Read More

Any Which Way You Can

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Ruth Gordon, William Smith, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: This sequel to Every Which Way But Loose finds Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) on the road, orangutan companion Clyde in tow, as he makes his way as a bare-knuckle fighter. The action begins with Philo punching out a new victim while Clyde relieves himself on the seat of a police car, setting the Read More

Escape from Alcatraz

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward

Synopsis: No one can escape from Alcatraz, right? Try telling that to lifer Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood). This Donald Siegel-directed nailbiter is a reenactment of Frank Morris' 1962 attempt to bust himself and two other cons out of The Rock. Eastwood, as Morris, tilts with nasty warden Patrick McGoohan Read More

Every Which Way But Loose

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's first comedy feature proved to be one of his most profitable vehicles. Eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a bare-knuckle boxer who travels from fight to fight in a beat-up truck, accompanied by his "pal" Clyde, a orangutan with a mean right hook, and his human buddy Orville (Geoffrey Lewis Read More

The Gauntlet

Crew: Director

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Playing police stooge Ben Shockley, Clint Eastwood sends up his Dirty Harry-ness in this 1977 cop film-action movie-romantic comedy. Ben is assigned to escort tough Vegas hooker Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) to Phoenix for a Mob trial because, he thinks, he always "gets the job done." But corrupt Read More

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Crew: Director

Actors: