Clint Eastwood Biography

- Clint Eastwood is an anagram for 'old west action'. (Jeopardy)

- When Eastwood was four years old, his mother discovered he was allergic to cats and dogs. He started collecting snakes, and at one point had 13.

- He wore the same poncho, without ever having washed it, in all three of his 'Man with No Name' Westerns.

- The boots that Clint wore in 'Unforgiven' are the same boots that he wore in the TV series 'Rawhide'. These boots are now a part of Clint’s private collection and were on loan to the 2005 Sergio Leone exhibit at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California.

- His name has made it into popular music, with Damon Alburn’s band, Gorillaz dub-rap-rock mutation 'Clint Eastwood' being a great hit.

- If Clint had to look unpleasant or mean in the 'Dollars’ trilogy he would just take a couple of draws of his cigar and he was right there. He hated smoking.

- Clint is a partial owner of the Pebble Beach Golf Country Club in Monterey Peninsula, California. Every year the PGA tour plays at the golf club, for a celebrity golf tournament where celebrities team up with the professionals. Clint has taken part in this every year from 1962-2002 making him the longest running participant. He now serves as Host.

- Weighed 11 lbs 6 oz at birth.

- Awards: Won 4 Oscars and 5 Golden Globes.

- Height: 6' 4".

- Billed by Life magazine in 1971 as ‘the world’s most famous movie star’.

- Aged 74, he became the oldest person to win the Best Director Oscar for 'Million Dollar Baby' in 2004.

- His favourite actor is James Cagney.

- At the 2005 National Board of Review awards dinner in New York City, Clint, a Republican, joked that he would kill filmmaker Michael Moore if Moore ever showed up at his home with a camera (an evident reference to Moore's controversial interview with Clint’s friend, actor/Second Amendment advocate Charlton Heston, for the movie Bowling for Columbine (2002)). After the crowd laughed, Clint said, "I mean it." Moore's spokesman said, "Michael laughed along with everyone else, and took Mr. Eastwood's comments in the light-hearted spirit in which they were given." Publicly, Clint has not commented further.