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Which television western gave Clint Eastwood his breakthrough role?
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Clint Eastwood
American actor and director Clint Eastwood, 2008.
Clint Eastwood received his breakthrough role in 1959 when he was cast as Rowdy Yates in the popular television western Rawhide (1959â65).1