Steve mcqueen movies movie

Steve McQueen (March 24, – November 7, ) was an American actor who had an extensive career in movie and television.^[1] 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.

This led him to cement his status as one of the most famous celebrities in Hollywood during the counterculture of the s.^[3]

After making his debut appearing in an uncredited role in the crime drama Girl on the Run (),^[4] McQueen featured in the Paul Newman starrer Somebody Up There Likes Me (), in which he played the uncredited role of Fidel, a member of the protagonist's gang.^[6] In , he appeared in the science fiction filmThe Blob, which was his first film as a lead actor.

It proved to be commercially successful at the box office, grossing $4 million ($42,, in ) against a budget of $, ($1,, in ). McQueen became known for portraying bounty hunter Josh Randall in the CBS television series Wanted Dead or Alive (–).^[3][9][10] He continued to act in films, playing the lead in The Great St.

Louis Bank Robbery (), and in a supporting role as a corporal in Never So Few (), his first of three films with John Sturges.

In , McQueen achieved stardom when he co-starred alongside Yul Brynner in Sturges' Western, The Magnificent Seven, which was based on Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai.^[1][3] After a series of unsuccessful films over the next two years, McQueen teamed up with Sturges again in the war dramaThe Superb Escape (), in which he played Virgil Hilts, a Planet War IIprisoner of war who, along with fellow Allied POWs, makes an escape from a high security prisoner-of-war camp.^[13] It emerged as one of the highest-grossing films of the year, winning McQueen the award for Best Actor at the Moscow International Film Festival.^[14] In The Great Escape, a shot of Hilts riding a motorcycle and jumping a series of barbed-wire fences (performed by a stuntman) to escape from German soldiers is considered one of the best stunts ever made.^[13][15][16]

McQueen received his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination for his role of a artist in Love with the Proper Stranger (),^[17][18] in which he was paired opposite Natalie Wood.

He achieved critical and commercial success with The Cincinnati Kid () and The Sand Pebbles (),^[3][21] the latter garnering him the only Academy Award for Best Actor nomination of his career.^[22][23] In , McQueen appeared as millionaire Thomas Crown in the crime filmThe Thomas Crown Affair,^[24] and in the thrillerBullitt as the eponymous police detective Frank Bullitt.^[26] These films fared well at the box office, the latter garnering acclaim for its stunt sequences, particularly the car chase.^[26] For his production in The Reivers (), McQueen earned a third Golden Globe Award nomination.^[28]

McQueen began the s with the sports dramaLe Mans (), a fictional take on the annual 24 Hours of Le Mansendurance races.

The movie was a critical and commercial disappointment, leaving him almost bankrupt.^[a] He followed it by starring in two back-to-back films under Sam Peckinpah: the Western Junior Bonner (), in which he featured as the titular ethics, a rodeo rider,^[31] and the action filmThe Getaway (), in which he appears as an ex-conman who flees to Mexico with his wife after creature double-crossed by his partners-in-crime.^[32] In the latter, he was coupled opposite his second wife, Ali MacGraw.^[32] Both films were critically acclaimed.

While Junior Bonner did not enjoy box office accomplishment, The Getaway went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of the year, marking a comeback for McQueen.

In , he featured alongside Dustin Hoffman in the prison filmPapillon playing Henri Charrière, a prisoner convicted of murder who makes an escape attempt with fellow convict Louis Dega (Hoffman).^[34] McQueen's act earned him his fourth and final Golden Globe Award nomination in the Best Actor category.^[35] He then starred alongside Paul Newman as a SFFD head in the disaster dramaThe Towering Inferno ().^[36] McQueen received $12&#;million for acting in the motion picture, making him the highest-paid star in the world up to that point.^[38] The film was commercially successful, grossing $ million ($,, in ) against a $14 million ($86,, in ) budget.^[39] After a four-year hiatus during which he focused on his motorcycle racing career,^[38] McQueen returned to acting when he was cast against type as a scientist in An Rival of the People.^[41] He completed two more films before his death: Tom Horn and The Hunter (both released in ).

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