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  1. Private first class. Website. stevemcqueen .com. Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) [4] was an American actor and racing driver. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the 1960s and 1970s.

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    McQueen was born in Beech Grove, Indiana, to Julia Ann (Crawford) and William Terence McQueen, a stunt pilot. His first lead role was in the low-budget sci-fi film The Blob (1958), quickly followed by roles in The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) and Never So Few (1959). The young McQueen appeared as Vin, alongside Yul Brynner, in the star-laden The M...

    McQueen next appeared in several films of mixed quality, including Soldier in the Rain (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) and Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965). However, they failed to really grab audience attention, but his role as Eric Stoner in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), alongside screen legend Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden, had movi...

    The 1970s is a decade remembered for a slew of \\"disaster\\" movies and McQueen starred in arguably the biggest of the time, The Towering Inferno (1974). He shared equal top billing with Paul Newman and an impressive line-up of co-stars including Fred Astaire, Robert Vaughn and Faye Dunaway. McQueen does not appear until roughly halfway into the fil...

    McQueen's last two film performances were in the unusual Western Tom Horn (1980), then he portrayed real-life bounty hunter Ralph \\"Papa' Thorson (Ralph Thorson) in The Hunter (1980). In 1978, McQueen developed a small but persistent cough that would not go away. He quit smoking and underwent antibiotic treatments without improvement. Shortness of ...

    Steve McQueen passed away on November 7, 1980, at age 50 after the cancer surgery which was said to be successful. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea. He married three times and had a lifelong love of motor racing, once remarking, \\"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.\\".

    Learn about the life and career of Steve McQueen, the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s and 1970s. Find out his birth name, nicknames, roles, awards, trivia and cause of death.

    • March 24, 1930
    • November 7, 1980
  2. Career. Steve McQueen rose to fame in 1960, starring together with Yul Brynner, in the Western movie The Magnificent Seven. Three years after that success. He starred in another movie that would become a classic The Great Escape (1963), where he plays the role of a U.S. soldier imprisoned in a Nazi Prisoner of war camp.

  3. May 8, 2024 · Steve McQueen (1930–80) was a macho, laconic American movie star of the 1960s and ’70s. Cool and stoical, his loner heroes spoke through actions and rarely with words. His best-known films included The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, and The Thomas Crown Affair.

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  4. Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor who had an extensive career in film and television. Popularly known as the "King of Cool", [2] McQueen's screen persona was that of portraying cool, reticent antihero roles, which appealed strongly to the masses.

  5. Apr 3, 2014 · Learn about Steve McQueen, a British artist, director and screenwriter who won an Oscar for his film 12 Years a Slave. Find out about his early life, career, personal life and interesting facts.

  6. Nov 5, 2020 · A tribute to the actor Steve McQueen, born Terrence Stephen McQueen on March 24, 1930, who starred in popular films like ‘The Magnificent Seven,’ ‘Bullitt,’ ‘The Sand Pebbles,’ and more. Learn about his life, achievements, and legacy as the ‘King of Cool.’

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