Clint Eastwood (2004), Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor. Eastwood's greatest commercial successes have been the adventure comedy "Every Which Way But Loose" (1978) and its sequel, the action comedy "Any Which Way You Can" (1980), after adjustment for inflation. Other popular films include the Western "Hang 'Em High" (1968), the psychological thriller "Play Misty for Me" (1971), the crime film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974), the Western "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), the prison film "Escape from Alcatraz" (1979), the action film "Firefox" (1982), the suspense thriller "Tightrope" (1984), the
Clint Eastwood in the 1960s Clint Eastwood in the 1960s In the 1960s, Clint Eastwood rose to fame in the Dollars Trilogy which would break him into mainstream cinema in the United States. In late 1963, a relatively unknown director Italian named Sergio Leone followed the advice of Claudia Sartori, an agent working at the William Morris Agency in Rome. He watched "Rawhide" episode 91, "Incident of the Black Sheep", dubbed into Italian. He concentrated on Eric Fleming's performance, but later admitted he was distracted by Eastwood's performance. Leone said, "What fascinated me about Clint, above all, was his external appearance. I noticed the lazy,