Clint Eastwood played a role.
Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 American action comedy film , starring Clint Eastwood , with Sondra Locke , Geoffrey Lewis , William Smith , and Ruth Gordon in supporting roles . Clint Eastwood . These roles , among others , have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity . Every Which Way but Loose (film) . It stars Clint Eastwood in an uncharacteristic and offbeat comedy role , as Philo Beddoe , a trucker and brawler roaming the American West in search of a lost love while accompanied by his friend/manager , Orville , and his pet orangutan , Clyde . Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 American crime film written and directed by Michael Cimino and starring Clint Eastwood , Jeff Bridges , George Kennedy , and Geoffrey Lewis .