Born in San Francisco, California, in 1930, Clinton Eastwood Jr. is an actor, producer, director, musician, and composer. His first major role was in Rawhide, a television series that ran from 1959 to 1965. But his breakthrough came with his performances in Dirty Harry and in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns known as the Dollars Trilogy. Thanks to these characters, he became an icon of masculinity.