Gorgeous Photos of Young Clint Eastwood
Most people know actor and director Clint Eastwood from his “Dirty Harry” films and his spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. Eastwood won numerous Academy Awards for his films. But very few people remember what Eastwood’s life was like in the early 1950s.
Eastwood actually served in the Army Special Services in 1950 at Fort Ord, in Monterey, California. Meanwhile, he met two actors named Martin Milner and David Janssen during his stint in the Army. Then, they told Eastwood that he should consider becoming an actor when he gets out of the Army. After all, Eastwood listened to their advice and, moved to Los Angeles in 1954 to become an actor.
Eastwood’s first roles were in science fiction B-movies like Tarantula and Revenge of the Creature in 1955. Meanwhile, his contract with Universal Studios was just $75 per week. After that Eastwood was cast as Rowdy Yates in the classic western “Rawhide” in 1959. Rawhide aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959, to September 3, 1965.
Eastwood’s big-screen breakthrough came as The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s trilogy of excellent spaghetti westerns: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
