Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Clint Eastwood directed the film "White Hunter Black Heart", an adaptation of Peter Viertel's "roman à clef" about John Huston and the making of the classic film "The African Queen". The film received some critical attention but only had a limited release and earned just $8.4 million. In 1993, Eastwood played Frank Horrigan, a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the CIA thriller "In the Line of Fire", co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Eastwood's character, Horrigan, is haunted by his failure to react in time to save John F. Kennedy's
David Valdes David Valdes David Valdes (born August 12, 1950, in Los Angeles) is an American film producer known for working in the western genre and collaborating with Clint Eastwood. Valdes first started out his career as an assistant director for films like "Oh, God! Book II", "The Outsiders" and "Tightrope", (which he also had a minor role in). He became good friends with Eastwood after "Tightrope" and soon Valdes was promoted to associate producer/assistant director on 1985's "Pale Rider". He went on as producer and production manager on other Eastwood films like "The Dead Pool", "Bird", "Pink Cadillac", "White Hunter Black