Tony Curtis

857, The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. From Bronco Billy:. The relevant bill is H.R. From Sudden Impact:. Curtis and actress-activist Bo Derek met with Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) in Washington, D.C., in May 2004 to discuss protecting horses. From Dirty Harry:. Other notable roles include:. Eastwood has never taken a writing credit on a film.).

He is probably best known for his role in the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, co-starring with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. (Remembering, of course, that Eastwood himself did not write any of these lines. His earliest credited role is in the 1949 film City Across the River. Some of Eastwood's lines are among the best-known movie quotations of all time. He was also married to actress Christine Kaufmann in the 1960s. He served a two-year term before declining to run for re-election. He has been married five times; his first wife was actress Janet Leigh, with whom he fathered actress Jamie Lee Curtis. In addition to his career as an actor, Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California on April 8, 1986, receiving 72% of the vote (voter turnout was also doubled over the previous mayoral election).

Curtis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995. I realize how unfair a thing it is that men can have children at a much older age than women.". Since at least the early 1980s Curtis has had a second career as a painter. I am very fortunate. Curtis has also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders. It's a terrific feeling being a dad again at my age. June 3, 1925 in the Bronx, New York), an actor who has appeared in over 100 films since 1949. "I like to joke that since my children weren't giving me any grandchildren, I had two of my own.

Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz (b. He also has an older son Lesly (born February 13, 1959) to Rosina Mary Glen (born September 1, 1940), who was adopted after six months in a Salvation Army Home for young unmarried mothers. a stunt man in The Great Race (1965). He has a eleven-year-old daughter Francesca with Frances Fisher, his co-star in Unforgiven, and seven year old Morgan with his new wife Dina Ruiz. Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the title role of The Great Impostor (1962); and. Eastwood, who has been married twice, has four other daughters and two sons by five different women: Kimberly, 40, with actress Roxanne Tunis; and Kyle, 36, and Alison 32, with his ex-wife Maggie Johnson. appearing as Antoninus in Spartacus (1960);. Eastwood received Kennedy Center Honors in 2000.

Navy Lieutenant Nicholas Holden from that equally famous pink submarine SeaTiger in Operation Petticoat (1959);. With his towering personality in literal and virtual terms, he is probably the only American actor who looks 'lonely in a crowd'. his Oscar-nominated role in The Defiant Ones (1958);. With a drawl most people call 'Western', he is cool, conceited and distant on screen. press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success (1957);. Despite the critical acclaim he has received for Oscar-winning epics in the latter part of his career, Eastwood remains the quintessential cowboy with mannerisms to match in all his movies. Harry Houdini in the 1953 film Houdini;. In more recent years, Eastwood has also started to write music for some of his films.

studio, which finances and releases most of his films. Similarly, he has a very long term relationship to the Warner Bros. Over the years, he has developed relationships with many other filmmakers, working over and over with the same crew, production designers, cinematographers, editors, and other technical people. Eastwood also produces many of his movies, and is well known in the industry for his efficient, low cost approach to making films.

Over the course of time, Eastwood has become a highly respected American director. He has chosen a wide variety of films to direct, some clearly commercial, others highly personal. Unlike many actors who also direct, Eastwood frequently directs films he does not appear in. Eastwood developed directing as a second career, and has, indeed, generally received greater critical acclaim for his directing than for his acting. He expanded his repertoire again with the love story, The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and took on more work as director, much of it well received, including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) and Mystic River (2003).

The following year, Eastwood gave a fine performance as a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the thriller In the Line of Fire. The film was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Actor for Eastwood, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. He starred in and directed the gritty, cynical western, Unforgiven in 1992, taking on the role of an aging ex-gunfighter, long past his prime. But Eastwood rose surprisingly to stardom yet again in the 1990s.

He then started taking on more personal projects such as directing Bird (1988), a biopic of Charlie 'Bird' Parker, and starring in and directing White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), an uneven, loose biography of John Huston. After much less successful films like Pink Cadillac (1989), and The Rookie (1990), it was fairly obvious Eastwood's star was declining as it never had before. Although it was a success overall, it did not have the box office punch his previous films had achieved. He did make his fifth and final Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool (1988).

But the passing of time made it harder for him to be a believable tough guy. President Reagan even used his famous "make my day" line in one of his speeches. It was the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact (1983) that made Eastwood a viable star for the eighties. However his career appeared to be on the wane.

As the late seventies approached he found more solid work in comedies like Every Which Way But Loose (1978). The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) was an important contribution to the western genre. Eastwood continued to take cop, western and thriller roles, including sequels to Dirty Harry: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988). Many have said that Eastwood's portrayal of the tough, no-nonsense cop touched a nerve with many who were just plain fed up with crime in the streets.

The film has been credited with inventing the 'loose-cannon cop genre' that has been imitated even to this day. But it was his role that year as the hard edged police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry that gave Eastwood one of his most memorable roles. He starred in the thriller Play Misty for Me (1971), and The Beguiled (1971). 1971 proved to be one of his best years in films.

His talents proved equal to all these tasks. Paint Your Wagon (1969) was still a Western, but a musical. Kelly's Heroes (1970) combined tough guy action with offbeat humor. However he also began to branch out. In Where Eagles Dare (1968) he had second billing to Richard Burton but was paid $800,000 (rather more than a fistful).

Stardom brought more roles, though still in the 'tough guy' mold. All three films were hits, particularly the third, and Eastwood became an instant international star, redefining the traditional image of the American cowboy. In these and his third film with Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo) (1966) he found one of his trademark roles, the mysterious "man with no name". But Eastwood found even bigger and better things with Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) in 1964, and soon followed it with For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in pił) (1965).

As Rowdy Yates, he made the show his own and became a household name around the country. In 1959 he got his first breakthrough with the long-running Television series, Rawhide. He began work as an actor, appearing in such B-films as Tarantula and Francis in the Navy. Before acting, he was a member of the United States Army.

Born in San Francisco, the son of a steel worker, Eastwood started a business related degree at Los Angeles College, but dropped out. These include Dirty Harry and "The Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns". Clint Eastwood (born May 31, 1930) is an American movie actor and director, famous for his 'tough guy' roles. "Cowboy in a Three Piece Suit" (single, 1981).

"Kelly's Heroes" (soundtrack). "Paint Your Wagon" (soundtrack). "Rawhide's Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites" (LP). "For You, For Me, For Evermore" (single).

"Rowdy" (single). "Unknown Girl" (single, 1961).