Before Clint Eastwood became one of the biggest names in the Western genre, he was on an old television series that launched ...

Clint Eastwood, as Rowdy Yates, spent seven years driving cattle on CBS' "Rawhide." In the nearly half-century since, Eastwood perfected the role of the ultimate tough guy -- but in recent years ...

Clint Eastwood's most famous Western movie character is the antihero known as "The Man With No Name," but his breakout role was very different. Eastwood had played small roles in movies and TV shows ...

Clint Eastwood privately ridiculed Rowdy Yates — the one-dimensional cowhand he played on the TV show “Rawhide” — as “the idiot of the plains.” Some film reviewers were not much kinder ...

Young Eastwood’s breakthrough role came in 1959, when he began playing Rowdy Yates in the Western TV series Rawhide. The show ran until 1965, and made Eastwood into a star over the course of 217 ...

An homage to Clint Eastwood, the iconic Western star, examining how he became one of America's most revered filmmakers.

1959-1965 – Stars in TV western “Rawhide” as Rowdy Yates. September 12, 1964 – The Italian release of “A Fistful of Dollars,” the first of three “spaghetti westerns” Eastwood would ...

And he was Rowdy Yates. We were all in love with him, all of my sisters and me. So I had this whole thing about Clint in my head.

Clint Eastwood privately ridiculed Rowdy Yates - the one-dimensional cowhand he played on the TV show Rawhide - as "the idiot of the Plains." ...