Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood is a director, actor, and producer who first achieved success in the television series Rawhide. He then rose to international fame after playing the Man with No Name during the ’60s and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry movies throughout the ’70s and ’80s. These early roles, among several others, made the actor a cultural icon of masculinity and one of Hollywood’s veteran actors.

After he graduated from high school, Eastwood worked as a lifeguard, grocery clerk, golf caddy, paperboy, and forest firefighter. He later joined the army, and while there, he met Chuck Hill, who had contacts in the entertainment scene. Hill later introduced Eastwood to directors Irvine Glassberg and Arthur Libin, and the latter encouraged him to take acting classes. The budding actor followed the advice and began making investments so that he could appear on both the big screen and on TV.