“If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.”

American actor and filmmaker

Clint Eastwood is an American actor and filmmaker, known for a screen career that made him a lasting cultural icon of masculinity. Born Clinton Eastwood Jr., he first found success in the Western television series Rawhide, then rose to international fame in the mid-1960s. He is especially associated with Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, where he played the “Man with No Name,” and with the Dirty Harry films, in which he portrayed Harry Callahan across the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, he was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and served for two years.