Man with No Name

For other uses, see Man with No Name (disambiguation).

Man with No Name
Dollars Trilogy character
Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name in a publicity photo for A Fistful of Dollars
First appearanceA Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Last appearanceThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Created bySergio Leone
Portrayed byClint Eastwood
In-universe information
Aliases
  • The Stranger
  • The Hunter
  • The Bounty Killer
  • The Good
  • Americano
  • Mister Sudden Death
  • Señor Ninguno
  • Nameless
  • No Name
  • Blondie
  • Manco
  • Joe
OccupationBounty hunter
NationalityAmerican
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The Man with No Name (Italian: Uomo senza nome) is the antihero character portrayed by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Italian Spaghetti Western films: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). He is recognizable by his poncho, brown hat, tan cowboy boots, fondness for cigarillos, and the fact that he rarely speaks.[1]

The "Man with No Name" concept was invented by the American distributor United Artists. Eastwood's character does have a name, or nickname, which is different in each film: "Joe", "Manco" and "Blondie", respectively.[2][3]

When Clint Eastwood was honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, Jim Carrey gave the introductory speech and said: "'The Man with No Name' had no name, so we could fill in our own."[4] In 2008, Empire chose the Man with No Name as the 33rd greatest movie character of all time.[5]

  1. ^ "Christos Gage on The Man With No Name". 8 September 2023.
  2. ^ Farino, Ernest (August 2020). "A Fistful of Pasta: The Italian Westerns of Sergio Leone". RetroFan (10). United States: TwoMorrows Publishing: 61–67.
  3. ^ Curti, Roberto (2 August 2016). Tonino Valerii: The Films. McFarland. p. 208. ISBN 9781476626185. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. ^ Ditka, Elaine (2 March 1996). "In the Line of Clint's Praises at AFI Salute". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  5. ^ "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters". Empire. 5 December 2006. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015.