Clint Eastwood is an icon in Hollywood, a former Western star who became an Oscar-winning director, but ironically, he has admitted he only admired one other actor who came before him. Eastwood began his acting career with a mixture of appearances in war and Western movies, but the Western genre made him a star. In 1964, he appeared in A Fistful of Dollars by director Sergio Leone, and his Man With No Name became an icon in spaghetti Western history. However, Eastwood didn't just stick with Westerns.