Born in San Francisco, CA on May 31, 1930 to Clinton Eastwood, Sr. and Ruth Runner; the family is of Scottish, Irish, Dutch, and English descent. Eastwood was shaped in childhood by the Great Depression, which in turn left its mark on his later films.Clint Sr., a sometime steel worker in the San Francisco Bay Area, was forced in the 1930s to seek work over a wide area of coastal and inland Cal...(continue reading)





