Clint Eastwood turned 95 on May 31. Anticipating his birthday, Variety caught up with him and reported that he is preparing to direct a new film. His comments to Variety indicate that his mental acuity has not waned.
Eastwood has starred in, directed, and/or produced an almost unbelievable number of films long on entertainment of one kind or another. In 1984, the great critic Richard Grenier declared Eastwood “The World’s Favorite Movie Star” in the pages of Commentary. He updated his 1984 essay ten years later in “Eastwood goes PC.” Would that he were alive to update his Commentary essays on Eastwood in 2025.
It occurred to me that the question What is your favorite Clint Eastwood movie? might be a world-class conversation starter. With a little help from Wikipedia, I compiled the list below of most of the movies he has appeared in and below that those he has produced and/or directed. Here we go:
Appearances
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Hang ‘Em High
Coogan’s Bluff
Where Eagles Dare
Paint Your Wagon
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Kelly’s Heroes
The Beguiled
Play Misty for Me
Dirty Harry
Joe Kidd
High Plains Drifter
Magnum Force
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The Eiger Sanction
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Enforcer
The Gauntlet
Every Which Way but Loose
Escape from Alcatraz
Bronco Billy
Any Which Way You Can
Firefox
Honkytonk Man
Sudden Impact
Tightrope
City Heat
Pale Rider
Heartbreak Ridge
The Dead Pool
Pink Cadillac
White Hunter, Black Heart
The Rookie
Unforgiven
In the Line of Fire
The Bridges of Madison County
Absolute Power
True Crime
Space Cowboys
Blood Work
Million Dollar Baby
Gran Torino
Trouble with the Curve
The Mule
Cry Macho
Directing and/or producing credits
Play Misty for Me
Dirty Harry
High Plains Drifter
Breezy
The Eiger Sanction
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Gauntlet
Bronco Billy
Firefox
Honkytonk Man
Sudden Impact
Tightrope
Pale Rider
Heartbreak Ridge
Bird
White Hunter Black Heart
The Rookie
Unforgiven
A Perfect World
The Bridges of Madison County
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Absolute Power
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
True Crime
Space Cowboys
Blood Work
Mystic River
Million Dollar Baby
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Changeling
Gran Torino
Invictus
Hereafter
J. Edgar
Trouble with the Curve
Jersey Boys
American Sniper
Sully
The 15:17 to Paris
The Mule
Richard Jewell
Cry Macho
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