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Malpaso Productions is Clint Eastwood's production company. It was established in 1967 as The Malpaso Company by Eastwood's financial adviser Irving Leonard for the film Hang 'Em High, using profits from the Dollars Trilogy. Leonard served as President of the Malpaso Company until his death on December 13, 1969.
- Born in San Francisco
- Odd Jobs and An Army Stint
- Marriage to Maggie Johnson
- Movie Debut in Monster Flick
- Late 1950s: TV Roles and Manual Labor
- Becoming Rowdy Yates
- Spaghetti Westerns
- The 'Man with No Name'
- Establishing Malpaso Productions
- Directorial Debut
Clinton Eastwood Jr. was born May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, and he has one younger sister, Jeanne. He attended Oakland Technical High School.
After high school, Eastwood found workas a logger, hay baler, truck driver, and furnace tender in a steel plant. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1950 and stationed at California's Fort Ord, where he taught swimming lessons on base. After being discharged in 1953, Eastwood attended Los Angeles City College and worked in a gas station.
Eastwood married Maggie Johnson, a Los Angeles model, in 1953. They had two children, Kyle and Alison. In 1964, while married to Johnson, Eastwood had a daughter, Kimber, with Roxanne Tunis, an actress and stuntwoman. Eastwood and Johnson divorced in 1984.
Eastwood passed a screen test with Universal Studios, got a 40-week contract, and landed his first roles in the 1955 monster movies Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula and the comedy Francis in the Navy.
When his Universal Studios contract ended, Eastwood booked a few roles in television, but he made ends meet by digging swimming pools and driving a garbage truck. You may also like: 50 Best American War Movies
Eastwood's breakout role came in 1958, when he landed the part of Rowdy Yates on the Western television series Rawhide. He would go on to play the cowboy for the show's eight seasons.
The actor headed to Italy in the 1960s to star in a series of spaghetti Westerns—A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly—all directed by Sergio Leone. The stint in Europe brought Eastwood international attention.
Actors James Coburn and Charles Bronson both turned down the role of the Man with No Name that Eastwood played in the Sergio Leone Westerns. Eastwood wore the same sarapein each movie and is said to have never washed it.
In 1967 Eastwood set up his own company, Malpaso Productions, which would produce his first Western, Hang 'Em High, in 1968. Malpaso Productions was behind more of Eastwood's cowboy roles in High Plains Drifter in 1973, The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1976, andPale Rider in 1985, as well as Eastwood's portrayal of real-life prisoner Frank Lee Morris in t...
Eastwood directed his first film, Play Misty for Me, in 1971. The film was a psychological thriller about a radio disc jockey (Eastwood) and an obsessed listener played by Jessica Walter.
Malpaso Productions is a production company based in Burbank, California. Discover new TV shows and movies from Malpaso Productions and where you can watch them.
Malpaso Productions is Clint Eastwood's production company. It was established in 1967 as The Malpaso Company by Eastwood's financial adviser Irving Leonard for the film Hang 'Em High, using profits from the Dollars Trilogy.
Kristina Rivera is best known for her collaborations with Clint Eastwood. She began her career at Malpaso Productions as his assistant on "Invictus" and worked on "Hereafter", "J.Edgar",...
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Sep 22, 2021 · With his money from those movies, Eastwood formed the Malpaso Company (later Malpaso Productions), with an eye toward exerting more control over the material in which he appeared — and...
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Jun 25, 2016 · 1:27. LOS ANGELES — Few people can get away with teasing a man like his daughter can. On a May afternoon, in a small office at his Malpaso Productions on the Warner Bros. lot, Clint...
