Clint Eastwood’s Son Reveals Actor and Director, 96, Has ‘Retired’ From Hollywood

Legendary actor and director Clint Eastwood is ready to enjoy his newfound free time. The Gran Torino star has officially retired from Hollywood, his son announced.

“I’ve been very lucky to be able to work with him on a lot of films. It was a great experience for me,” Kyle Eastwood told France Info in November 2025. “I have a lot of good memories of working with him. Now he’s retired.”

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly actor got his start in the early 1960s on the Western TV series Rawhide. He would go on to become one of the most well-known faces of spaghetti Westerns.

The decades that followed saw Clint land leading roles in films such as Dirty Harry, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and Escape from Alcatraz. He made his directorial debut with 1971’s Play Misty for Me.

The later years of his career were largely focused on directing as he amassed a resume of 40 films. With 11 Academy Award nominations, Clint earned the Best Director Award twice — in 1993 for Unforgiven and in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby — however, he never won for Best Actor.

His latest project was as the director on the 2024 legal thriller Juror #2.

In 2021, Clint shut down retirement rumors, telling Parade, “I’m constantly figuring out what I’m going to do next.”

“I still love taking somebody’s idea, whether it’s a book or a play, and developing it,” he explained. “Maybe other people want to do a few movies and quit, and that’s great. Maybe they’ve got something else they could do and keep busy. I don’t. I love movies and enjoy making them.”

But according to his son, the California native — who turned 96 years old on May 31 — may have yelled “Cut!” for the last time.