The great Clint Eastwood, who was frequently pictured on screen wearing a broad-brimmed hat on his head, rose to fame thanks to his outstanding work in Western movies.
Eastwood, who won five Academy Awards and Golden Globes for his work as a director and actor, had his big break in 1959 playing cattle drove Rowdy Yates in the western drama series Rawhide. For seven seasons of the program that concluded in 1965, Eastwood portrayed Rowdy.
With his portrayal of The Man with no Name, the poncho-clad cowboy in Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns (westerns shot in Europe), Eastwood rose to fame on a global scale in the middle of the 1960s.
Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) were the three movies that first featured Clint Eastwood as the tough guy taking out the bad guys.
Following that, Eastwood starred as the “antihero” in the five Dirty Harry movies, which highlighted his portrayal of a classic masculine persona at the time.
Play Misty for Me marked his directorial debut in 1971, the same year the original Dirty Harry was released.
“I like being in films, I like making films and I started directing films because I thought, one day I’m going to look up on screen and say, ‘That’s enough Eastwood, you’d better do something else.’ So I thought, If I direct, I can let other people be on screen,” said the Letters from Iwo Jima director.
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