Clint Eastwood

The first real star-making roles Eastwood took were in legendary Italian director Sergio Leone's trilogy of Westerns, known as the "Dollars Trilogy." He played ...

Ultimately, the first two films of the trilogy had not yet been released in the United States at the time, so Eastwood had no guarantee of getting work in the States unless he committed to the trilogy. "In the first film, I was alone. Sergio Leone, the director Eastwood was working with, was quite a legend in his own right. Of course, the three get mixed up in multiple gunfights and confrontations on their path to the treasure, including a After the success of these two films, Eastwood felt his stock as an actor was rising, so he had more leverage negotiating for the third film in the trilogy, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Not only is Eastwood a great actor, but he's a very talented director as well, having directed and starred in such movies as "Unforgiven" and