He rose to fame as The Man With No Name.
Clint Eastwood's breakout movie role was as a mysterious drifter in the low-budget spaghetti Westerns of Italian director Sergio Leone. Eastwood's character -- like so many similar roles that would follow in the years to come -- is noted for displaying little emotion, apart from his trademark teeth-gritting grimace. He's been described as "a morally ambiguous antihero."
Leone once explained why he chose Eastwood for those roles: "At that time I needed a mask rather than an actor, and Eastwood had only two facial expressions: one with the hat and one without it."
Onscreen, Eastwood is the quintessential movie tough guy, a taciturn outsider who would just as soon be left alone. It takes a lot to raise his ire, but when circumstances force him to take action, he does so with single-minded ferocity. Whether firing off shots from his six-gun, lighting a dynamite fuse with his ever-present cheroot, or riding off toward the dusty horizon, the classic...
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