Today he is one of the most famous actors! Do you know who plays the pilot of this plane?

The director of almost forty feature films (two of which won the Oscar for best director), the holy monster of the cinema, the main face of the Western, Clint Eastwood is without a doubt one of the most important in the history of Hollywood.

Let’s think of his silent and charismatic portrayal of the man with no name in Sergio Leone’s Dollar Trilogy, his unforgettable shots in Inspector Harry, going head-to-head with Meryl Streep in Madison Avenue or his interpretation of retirement. Veteran Walt Kowalski in the excellent Gran Torino, it’s hard to imagine epic cinema without him.

However, even today we have the impression that he has always existed, there is indeed a time (which they did not know until the 60’s) when no one had heard of Clint Eastwood. Like most future great actors, he started in the film industry by entering the back door and getting roles.

As we can see from the excerpt below, in 1955 (68 years ago!) Clint Eastwood’s first appearance on the big screen dates back to the monster movie Tarantula, where a giant spider terrorized the inhabitants of an Arizona town. .

Even if his name wasn’t listed in the credits and if we never saw the lower part of his face covered by his aviator mask, the future Western standard was already playing a hero as he played a fighter pilot who launches a missile. Disgusting non-man.

(Do you know which other famous actor is in this 1965 movie?)

That same year, the director of Tarantula (Jack Arnold, also known as The Shrinking Man) gave Clint Eastwood another small role in the film Revenge of the Creature (from Black Lake), where the young actor played a scientist named after him. thus appearing in the film’s credits for the first time.

After several additional roles, Clint Eastwood quickly took the first step on the road to fame when he received one of the first roles in the series Rawhide in 1959. Five years later, he traveled to the Italian sun to star in the film that would revolutionize his career and mark cinema history: Sergio Leone’s Fistful of Dollars.

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