{"id":712549,"date":"2026-06-03T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712549\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:27:12","slug":"clint-eastwood-96-has-officially-retired-from-acting-and-directing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712549\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood, 96, has officially retired from acting and directing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a career spanning seven decades and more than 70 films to his name, Clint Eastwood<\/a> has officially retired from Hollywood.<\/p>\n

The four-time Oscar-winning actor and director, who turned 96 on Sunday (31 May), shot to fame on TV series Rawhide in the 1960s, before starring in Sergio Leone\u2019s spaghetti western Dollars trilogy, which included The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.<\/p>\n

He directed his first film \u2013 Play Misty for Me \u2013 in the 1970s, and in the following six decades, released films including Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Changeling, Gran Torino, American Sniper and The Mule. <\/p>\n

Eastwood is one of the most successful actors-turned-directors, refusing to be bound by a specific genre; he adeptly turned his hand to westerns, thrillers, biopics, romances, war films and musicals, and was known for his quick-speed directorial style, often wrapping ahead of schedule and under budget. <\/p>\n

\"ClintClint Eastwood has officially retired (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

For those wondering whether Eastwood is lining up a new movie, his son, musician and composer Kyle, who scored several of his father\u2019s films, has officially confirmed Clint\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n

He said at a gig in November, in a video that\u2019s currently doing the rounds online: \u201cI have many fond memories of working with him. Now he\u2019s retired, he\u2019s 95 years old. But I was very lucky to be able to work with him on quite a few films. It was a great experience for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eastwood, known for his relentless work ethic, often starred in the films he directed, with his last on-screen performance arriving in Cry Macho in 2021. <\/p>\n

His last film as director was 2024 legal thriller Juror No 2, starring Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette.<\/p>\n

\"ClintClint Eastwood’s career kicked off in the 1960s (PEA)<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Laura Linney, who worked with Eastwood three times, shared her insights into working with him over the years.<\/a><\/p>\n

She told The Independent in new interview series Life in Pictures<\/a> that his hesitancy to shout on sets stems from his experiences working on westerns<\/a>, including Rawhide, where making too much noise would alarm the horses in the production.<\/p>\n

Linney, who starred in Clintwood movies Absolute Power (1997), Mystic River (2003) and Sully (2016), said: \u201cI learnt an invaluable lesson on how to relax on set. He only does one take, he works with same crew, you come on set, it\u2019s pre-lit \u2013 it\u2019s done \u2013 and he goes \u2018OK, are you ready to go? OK, go ahead.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cHe talks in that level voice. He stands next to the camera, watches the scene, goes, \u2018OK you can stop. Did you feel good about that? I felt good about that. Were we in focus? OK, we can move on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Linney continued: \u201cThat\u2019s how he rolls. The reason he doesn\u2019t yell \u2018action\u2019 or \u2018cut\u2019 is because of the westerns he made. Because if someone yelled, the horse would jump and get scared, so everybody\u2019s quiet on set.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we all have nervous systems and it\u2019s true \u2013 when someone screams \u2018action\u2019, particularly if it\u2019s a scene where you have to concentrate, it takes a little time to recover from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eastwood directed five actors to Oscars throughout his career: Gene Hackman (Unforgiven), Sean Penn, Tim Robbins (both Mystic River), Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman (both Million Dollar Baby).<\/p>\n

The late Richard Harris, who worked with Eastwood on 1992 western Unforgiven, said that he had never starred in such a well-organised movie, calling the actor-director\u2019s preparation \u201castonishing\u201d, while Swank said: \u201cHe just made me feel right at ease. He quickly makes everyone feel really comfortable.\u201d Freeman named Eastwood his favourite director he\u2019s ever worked with.<\/p>\n

\"MorganMorgan Freeman named ‘Unforgiven’ director Clint Eastwood his favourite director he’s ever worked with (Warner Bros)<\/p>\n

Meryl Streep, who starred alongside Eastwood in 1995 romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County, said the star stuck up for her when the studio deemed her too old to play the female lead, when she was just 45 \u2013 the same age the character was supposed to be. <\/p>\n

\u201cClint made a, I gather, case for me, which I was glad about \u2013 and I would certainly have made a case for him,\u201d she once said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-712549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}