Christian Nyby: An Interview (Interview‪)‬

About 14 years ago, I was doing research for an article I was preparing on Clint Eastwood. Since I found so little of substance on his formative years as an actor on Rawhide, the second longest running Western in the annals of television, I thought I would try to speak with whomever I could from the cast and crew of the still-syndicated program originally broadcast on CBS from 1959 to 1966. Among them was a director of some two dozen episodes of Rawhide who I felt must have recollections of the young Eastwood that would be worthwhile. This was Christian Nyby. Through referrals, I reached Mr. Nyby at his home in Temecula, California, about 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles, where he had since retired. Nyby was then 77 years old.