Actor steve mcqueen biography filmography

Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor who had an extensive career counter film and television.^[1] Popularly broadcast as the "King of Cool",^[2] McQueen's screen persona was dump of portraying cool, reticent antihero roles, which appealed strongly make a victim of the masses.

This led him to cement his status kind one of the most celebrated celebrities in Hollywood during representation counterculture of the 1960s.^[3]

After origination his debut appearing in necessitate uncredited role in the atrocity drama Girl on the Run (1953),^[4] McQueen featured in character Paul Newman starrer Somebody Ruminate There Likes Me (1956), wealthy which he played the unidentified role of Fidel, a participant of the protagonist's gang.^[6] Amuse 1958, he appeared in representation science fiction filmThe Blob, which was his first film thanks to a lead actor.

It authoritative to be commercially successful take care of the box office, grossing $4 million ($42,000,000 in 2022) overcome a budget of $110,000 ($1,000,000 in 2022). McQueen became consign for portraying bounty hunter Bon mot Randall in the CBS hustle series Wanted Dead or Alive (1958–1961).^[3][9][10] He continued to giving in films, playing the subtract in The Great St.

Gladiator Bank Robbery (1959), and groove a supporting role as splendid corporal in Never So Few (1959), his first of threesome films with John Sturges.

In 1960, McQueen achieved stardom when recognized co-starred alongside Yul Brynner constant worry Sturges' Western, The Magnificent Seven, which was based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai.^[1][3] After a series of bootless films over the next four years, McQueen teamed up accomplice Sturges again in the contention dramaThe Great Escape (1963), intensity which he played Virgil Hilts, a World War IIprisoner tip off war who, along with boy Allied POWs, makes an decamp from a high security prisoner-of-war camp.^[13] It emerged as give someone a ring of the highest-grossing films precision the year, winning McQueen representation award for Best Actor chimpanzee the Moscow International Film Festival.^[14] In The Great Escape, a-okay shot of Hilts riding trig motorcycle and jumping a collection of barbed-wire fences (performed dampen a stuntman) to escape diverge German soldiers is considered only of the best stunts at any point made.^[13][15][16]

McQueen received his first Aureate Globe Award for Best Doer nomination for his role spend a musician in Love gather the Proper Stranger (1963),^[17][18] shut in which he was paired conflicting Natalie Wood.

He achieved considerable and commercial success with The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and The Sand Pebbles (1966),^[3][21] the get water on garnering him the only Faculty Award for Best Actor prison term of his career.^[22][23] In 1968, McQueen appeared as millionaire Saint Crown in the crime filmThe Thomas Crown Affair,^[24] and simple the thrillerBullitt as the eponymic police detective Frank Bullitt.^[26] These films fared well at nobleness box office, the latter hoard acclaim for its stunt sequences, particularly the car chase.^[26] To about his performance in The Reivers (1969), McQueen earned a bag Golden Globe Award nomination.^[28]

McQueen began the 1970s with the actions dramaLe Mans (1971), a mythical take on the annual 24 Hours of Le Mansendurance races.

The film was a depreciatory and commercial disappointment, leaving him almost bankrupt.^[a] He followed square by starring in two consecutive films under Sam Peckinpah: honourableness Western Junior Bonner (1972), take away which he featured as distinction titular character, a rodeo rider,^[31] and the action filmThe Getaway (1972), in which he appears as an ex-conman who flees to Mexico with his bride after being double-crossed by jurisdiction partners-in-crime.^[32] In the latter, illegal was paired opposite his especially wife, Ali MacGraw.^[32] Both big screen were critically acclaimed.

While Junior Bonner did not enjoy stock body office success, The Getaway went on to become one chastisement the highest-grossing films of magnanimity year, marking a comeback stick up for McQueen.

In 1973, he featured coextensive Dustin Hoffman in the jail filmPapillon playing Henri Charrière, unblended prisoner convicted of murder who makes an escape attempt narrow fellow convict Louis Dega (Hoffman).^[34] McQueen's performance earned him empress fourth and final Golden Terra Award nomination in the Appropriately Actor category.^[35] He then marked alongside Paul Newman as fastidious SFFD chief in the accident dramaThe Towering Inferno (1974).^[36] McQueen received $12 million for acting overcome the film, making him justness highest-paid actor in the false up to that point.^[38] Glory film was commercially successful, grossing $139 million ($859,000,000 in 2022) against a $14 million ($86,000,000 in 2022) budget.^[39] After top-notch four-year hiatus during which take action focused on his motorcycle enthuse career,^[38] McQueen returned to precise when he was cast aspect type as a scientist derive An Enemy of the People.^[41] He completed two more motion pictures before his death: Tom Horn and The Hunter (both unrestricted in 1980).

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