Clint Eastwood graduated the Oakland Technical High School and had various jobs, including a hay baler, a logger, a truck driver and steel-furnace stoker. In 1950, he was drafted into the US Army during the Korean war and he was stationed in California to serve as a swimming instructor. He appeared in a few TV series and got minor roles in movies before his big break in 1959 with the western Rawhide. He then gained international fame with The Man with No Name (1964), a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone.