(Between John Wayne on May 26, James Stewart on May 20, and Gary Cooper on May 7, there must be something about being in born in May that positions an actor for stardom in the Western genre!)Īfter Eastwood’s initial success on the TV series Rawhide, he traveled to Italy to star in a trio of Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, firmly establishing the significance of the “spaghetti Western”. In A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), Eastwood ostensibly played a variation of the same mysterious, laconic gunfighter alternately known as Joe, Manco, or Blondie, respectively, but immortalized in cinema as “the Man with No Name.”īoth A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More are excellent, but the third time was the charm with this final entry in Leone’s unofficial “Dollars trilogy”, proving the art of his craft between screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni’s shared vision with Leone, Carlo Simi’s genre-defining production and costume design, Tonino Delli Colli’s breathtaking cinematography, and Ennio Morricone’s sweeping and often haunting score. Today marks the 90th birthday of screen legend Clint Eastwood, born May 31, 1930, in San Francisco. (Italian title: Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo) Clint Eastwood as Blondie, aka “the Man with No Name”, in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) VitalsĬlint Eastwood as Blondie, aka “the Man with No Name”, taciturn bounty hunter
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