At 94, Clint Eastwood is still working with the energy of a man half his age. His latest movie, Juror #2, is a tense legal thriller starring Nicholas Hoult as a jury member wrestling with an impossible moral dilemma. And while the screen legend doesn’t appear in front of the camera in the film, it would make a fitting bookend to a seven-decade career that began with an uncredited walk-on part in 1955’s inauspiciously-titled cheapie, Revenge of the Creature. In 1959, Eastwood signed on to become a regular cast member on the hit TV series Rawhide, earning $700 a week. From there, it was off to Spain, where he would topline a trilogy of iconic Italian spaghetti westerns that would make him an international superstar.
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