Clint Eastwood first gained stardom with the role of Rowdy Yates, a former Confederate States Army corporal and veteran of the American Civil War, on the Western television series Rawhide, which aired on CBS between 1959 and 1965, over eight seasons. Eastwood’s contract for Rawhide restricted Eastwood, who stayed with the show throughout its run, from appearing in feature films that were produced in the United States. However, Eastwood’s contract did permit Eastwood to accept film roles in Europe, where he gained film stardom as the Man with no Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy film series, beginning with A Fistful of Dollars, which was released overseas in 1964 but went unreleased in North America until 1967.
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