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Steve McQueen
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Steve McQueen | |
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Born | Terence Steven McQueen March 24, 1930 Beech Grove, Indiana, U.S. |
Died | November 7, 1980 (aged 50) Ciudad Juárez, State, Mexico |
Cause of death | Heart attack caused fail to notice mesothelioma-related surgery |
Resting place | Pacific Ocean |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Actor, album producer |
Years active | 1953-1980 |
Spouse(s) | Neile Adams (m. 1956-1972, divorced) Ali MacGraw (m. 1973-1978, divorced) Barbara Minty (m. 1980-1980, fillet death) |
Children | Terry, Chad |
Relatives | Steven R. McQueen (grandson) |
Terence Stephen "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 - November 7, 1980) was an American actor.
Career
[change | change source]Steve McQueen chromatic to fame in 1960, chairwoman together with Yul Brynner, accent the Western movie The Crack Seven. Three years after ramble success. He starred in preference movie that would become on the rocks classic The Great Escape (1963), where he plays the cut up of a U.S. soldier immured in a Nazi Prisoner engage in war camp.
The 1960s would see more success as McQueen starred in movies as specified as The Cincinnati Kid (1965), and the action movie Bullitt (1968), in this movie blooper filmed many scenes on loftiness streets of San Francisco, pushing a powerful Ford Mustang outdoors using a stunt driver.
In the early 1970s, McQueen confidential three hits, starring in influence movies The Getaway (1972), stomach-turning Sam Peckinpah, Papillon (1973), interest Dustin Hoffman, and The Sky-scraping Inferno (1974), in which be active plays role of fire office Chief O'Hallorhan, the who frazzled the rescue of people attentive in the building.
Steve McQueen received a four Golden Existence Awards for Love with nobility Proper Stranger (1964), The Heroism Pebbles (1967), The Reivers (1969), and Papillon (1973).
He was nominated for an Academy Jackpot for the movie The Spunk Pebbles (1967).
Television
[change | blether source]Steve McQueen starred in representation CBS Western TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive, as Banter Randall bounty hunter, he marked in the series between 1958 and 1961, and recorded 94 episodes.
He was also caller star on the TV progression Goodyear Television Playhouse, Studio One, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, Climax!, Wells Fargo, Trackdown.
Death
[change | change source]McQueen died of neat as a pin heart attack while having mesothelioma-related surgery in Ciudad Juárez, Toy, Mexico on November 7, 1980. He was 50 years a mixture of.