Clint Eastwood
By far the most prolific of the enduring stars of the 1950s, Clint Eastwood broke out in 1950s films including Francis in the Navy, The First Traveling Saleslady and Ambush at Cimarron Pass (above) while also popping up on TV shows from Alfred Hitchcock Presents to Highway Patrol.
The 1960s brought a steady role on the TV show Rawhide, and he became one of the most iconic stars of the 1960s in Sergio Leone’s “Man With No Name” trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966).
He loomed large over the next two decades with his Dirty Harry franchise, but his greatest contribution to cinema may be his work as a director: He has four Oscars, two each for directing and producing The Unforgiven (1993) and Million Dollar Baby (2005). His other outstanding films include Mystic River (2003), Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) and American Sniper (2014).
He continues to star in and direct films — his latest was 2021’s Cry Macho, and he’ll next star in and direct the upcoming Juror #2.
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