Steve McQueen, born Terence Steven McQueen (Beech Grove, March 24, 1930 - Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, November 7, 1980), 1.75 m, was an American actor. McQueen was one of the most famous actors of the sixties and seventies. Known for his reckless behavior and anti-hero, although he has always been an actor rather problematic for directors and producers, always managed to get huge fees and important roles. Shadowsong, tender, aggressive, moody and suspicious, has lived a 'reckless', until an incurable disease that stole his life mocking, as well as a difficult childhood had stolen his carefree youth.
Born March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, a suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana, Steve McQueen has never known his father, which are known only as Bill, a sailor with a past acrobatic aviator, lover of the game ' Chance and the bottle, which left him six months after birth.
Steve, for his part is proved rebellious as a child.
mother not being able to breed, before awarding it to an uncle, who owned a farm in Slater, Missouri, where Steve, spent much of his childhood and adolescence. uncle learns to hunt, and this passion does not leave him more, for life.
Released by what remains the most painful and traumatic experience of his life, with the little money that his mother has put in his pocket, climbed on a bus and, in 1946, arrives in New York, where, Meanwhile the woman had moved.
But his mother and stepfather's turn away and refuse to receive him at home, and so Steve began life on the road, traveling from place to place, the streets of America.
Before making a stop in Los Angeles, where she bully of the neighborhood, then returned to New York.
age of sixteen he enlisted in the merchant navy and embarks on a tanker, the "SS Alpha."
Life board, however, is not satisfying, and so after a while ', he abandons the ship, docked in Cuba and through the Dominican Republic, is part of the United States.
One day, while you are lazing in the sun on a beach in South Carolina, he decided to leave as a volunteer for the military, and in April 1947, a month after he turned seventeen he enlisted in the Marines Corps, military for three years.
Steve McQueen testing to a motorcycle race
In 1950 he took his leave and come back on the road, to make the life of always working in an oil field in Texas, then goes to Canada, where does the woodsman, then returned to New York and rents for $ 19 per month, an apartment in Greenwich Village. To keep
is the most diverse professions such as, a messenger for a deposit of televisions, committed to a shoe store, a taxi driver and so on.
Only in 1951, driven by the then girlfriend, Neile Adams, an artist of some success in Bradway, he groped to convince the acting career, and joined the "Neighborhood Playhouse, which he attended assiduously for two years .
order to pay for the line, somewhat salty, driving at night until three in a postal truck, and yet, despite the fatigue, on time, every morning in class to study acting with Herbert Berghof and Hagen Huta.
leaving school, after getting a role in a Yiddish theater production in 1955 joined the prestigious Actor's Studio with Lee Strasberg in New York, after having passed the test with flying colors at the entrance, unique, along with Martin Landau out of 2000 candidates who presented themselves.
Switch to the study of acting, his other passion, motor racing track, which participates in the weekend, also winning several trophies.
The next year in San Clemente, Calif., Neile Adams became his first wife.
The marriage lasts fifteen years, were born two sons: Chad and Terry Leslie, and ends in divorce in 1971.
After the wedding, Steve moved with his wife in Los Angeles, and soon was hired by Robert Wise for the small part of Fidel in the film "Somebody Up There Likes Me - Somebody Up There Likes Me , fictionalized biography of the boxer, world middleweight champion, Rocky Graziano said Rocco Barbella, alongside the most famous Paul Newman and Anna Maria Pierangeli, representing its debut on the big screen. Effective in the boxing sequences Wise pulls out his skills as a former editor. Oscar for photography, Joseph Ruttenberg for design and Cedric Gibson, Malcolm Brown, Edwin Willis, Keogh Gleason. Written by Ernest Lehman, based sull'autobiografia boxer.
But is the television to turn it into a star when, in 1958 personifies Josh Randall, in the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive - Wanted dead or alive .
Many directors consider it intolerable, a good actor, great charisma, but uncontrollable and difficult to manage.
But Steve, the strength of this success, it takes much to become the idol of generations of young people, and to become infatuated with whether women all over the world.
Accumulate experience and so begins to be known with films at low cost. In 1958, Blob - Blob of Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. The blob itself is a fantastic invention, designed very well, able to invade any place and to penetrate everywhere, as in the scene, very famous in the film where the raid, in the darkness of the room, engulfs the audience unaware. 50s glowing colors and a cast in which stands a young Steve McQueen, the eve of his fame. Today, in Italy, the film is most famous for appearing in the symbol of the television program "Blob" which gave its name. Never Love a Stranger - Autopsy of a gangster Robert Stevens and The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery - The eyes of the witness (1959) Charles Guggenheim and John Stix.
recitative style, intense and brilliant, but also timely and compelling, blue eyes, framed by a face tender and shameless, the adventurous and rebellious, make him one of American artists of the most charismatic and unconventional, but also one of the most loved and idolized.
, Steve McQueen Yul Brynner next to it Battle
The first film star who devote thickness is next to great actors. The melodrama of love Never So Few - Sacred and Profane (1959), where he received the praise of Frank Sinatra. Typical MGM film of the cold war (the 1st Hollywood entirely for Gina Lollobrigida), a novel by Tom T. Chamales, screenplay by Millard Kaufman. It sheds light on handsome young McQueen. It is not the best of Sturges; success in Anglophone countries, at least in Italy. Above The Magnificent Seven - The Magnificent Seven (1960), both by John Sturges, where the dark reputation of Yul Brynner.
In the latter, of the eternal western remake of Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece "Seven Samurai", Steve is one of seven gunslingers (Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Waughn, Brad Dexter and Horst Buchholz mates) that release from a band of desperatos raids, the inhabitants of a Mexican village with Eli Wallach, head of the peons.
The film, which was a huge international success, was a great launch pad, or the consolidation of success, in addition to McQueen, also for all other interpreters.
Steve McQueen in a scene from the film Please do not touch the balls
In 1961 comes the first film as the protagonist, and also the first brilliant role and easy, with the fun comedy Honeymoon Machine - For Please do not touch the ball Richard Thorpe with Jim Hutton and Dean Jagger, on the misadventures of an American naval officer, who uses the large-scale computers of his ship break the bank for the Venice Casino.
Despite the success, this will be his only film "slight" McQueen, because from now on, only privileggerà roles from introspective psychology, much more complex.
Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Field and Philip Leacock on the set of The War Lover
are In 1962 Philip Leacock and Don Siegel to direct it. In The War Lover - The War Lover is Leacock, starring Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field, from the novel "The War Lover" (1959) by John Hersey (1914-93), written by Howard Koch, a schematic and superficial film that returns only a small part of the moods and subtleties of the literary work from which it derives. Discrete aerial photography. Music by Richard Addinsell (1904-77), composer of "The Warsaw Concerto" (1941). Siegel is the director of Hell is for Heroes - Hell Is for Heroes with Bobby Darin and James Coburn, exciting and tense war film on an episode of the Second World War, which occurred immediately after landing in Normandy. Although confused and erratic, this film is anti-war, in a kind easy to imposture, a work unusually terse and serious as his anti-heroic hero, rebellious and vulnerable.
, Steve McQueen is the great interpreter of The Great Escape
The consecration of the Gotha McQueen film arriving in 1963, with the film by John Sturges The Great Escape - The great escape, with the role of the prisoner in Stalag 'Luft North', a Nazi concentration camp who, along with a group of fellow soldiers, plan and attempt a spectacular escape from which few will be saved. The great cast includes Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Donald Pleasence, James Gardner and Richard Attenbough.
of worship are its motorcycle business in order to escape pursuit and capture, which will remain forever a classic example of an adventurous spirit.
The character of Virgil Hilts, 'The Cooler King', midway between the hero and the daredevil, will feature many more future successes, such as, for example, the young sergeant in Soldier in the Rain - The soldier under rain Ralph Nelson, who handles the day of training camp, with illegal trafficking, not always legitimate. Bizarre film tragicomic military environment in which Jackie Gleason as its main asset. Screenplay by Blake Edwards and Maurice Richlin on a novel by William Goldman.
Steve Cincinnati Kid McQueen
The review is divided critics: the obnoxious boy who loves to clown on the set, is seen as brilliant, compelling and shockingly self-centered, but works on top form and builds to perfection his interpretations.
A The Great Escape follows Love with the Proper Stranger - Stranger Robert Mulligan with Natalie Wood and Tom Bosley, where Rocky Papas, Italian trumpeter East Side of New York, impregnates his girlfriend, but does not have the courage to do abortions. Mulligan goes back and forth from comedy to drama with lightness, grace and intelligent screenplay by Arnold Schulman. Good environment and a couple of excellent performers. In
Cincinnati Kid (1965) Norman Jewison is a magnificent player Eric Stoner cynical and smart, considered as good at poker discovered in New Orleans in the Thirties, which challenge the "game of his life," Lancey Howard, the best player of America (Edward G. Robinson). The film boasts the most popular poker game of American cinema with an excellent environmental reconstruction, considerable taste for detail and priceless duet between S. EG McQueen and Robinson, surrounded by colorful characters. The origin is a novel Richard Jessup, screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Terry Southern. The shooting was started by Sam Peckinpah.
Cincinnati Kid (1965) Norman Jewison is a magnificent player Eric Stoner cynical and smart, considered as good at poker discovered in New Orleans in the Thirties, which challenge the "game of his life," Lancey Howard, the best player of America (Edward G. Robinson). The film boasts the most popular poker game of American cinema with an excellent environmental reconstruction, considerable taste for detail and priceless duet between S. EG McQueen and Robinson, surrounded by colorful characters. The origin is a novel Richard Jessup, screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Terry Southern. The shooting was started by Sam Peckinpah.
Steve McQueen in the movie with Brian Keith Smith Nevada
Ends with Robert Mulligan in Baby, the Rain Must Fall - Last attempt (1965) with Lee Remick and Don Murray.
Although scripted by Horton Foote, author of the play at the origin of the film (The Travelling Lady, 1957), is unconvincing.
While in Nevada Smith (1966) by Henry Hathaway with Karl Malden and Arthur Kennedy, embodies, with perfect adherence, the young half-breed whose sole purpose is to live to kill the murderers who have exterminated the family; convenzianle not a western inspired the protagonist of the novel "The Carpetbaggers - The man who could not love", by Harold Robbins.
Steve McQuenn alongside Candice Bergen will The Sand Pebbles
In 1966 she starred in the great adventure of war The Sand Pebbles - Those of San Pablo (1966) by Robert Wise, the story of a religious mission on the Yangtse River in China , besieged by enemies. The role of the American sailor aboard the San Pablo, who rushed to their aid, gives him the first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The next is Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna and Richard Attenborough.
Young, rebellious and angry, which has become a symbol of Hollywood, has starred in a series of films, a couple of westerns and cop some class entered law in the history of cinema.
began in 1968 with yellow-pink The Thomas Crown Affair, where does the gentleman thief who first seduces the detective who was exposed, then the challenge to stop him, written by Alan R. Trustman, is a mix of thriller and love together insignificant in its elegance, virtuosity by a formalistic overshadows all too pleased with the brilliance of photography (Haskell Wexler), the relentless use of split-screen mounting and syncopation.
Steve McQueen is the star of his best films Bullitt
Then it's time thriller Bullitt by Peter Yates, standing next to Robert Duvall and Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Vaughn, widely considered one of the best films of the actor, which gives life to the troubled police lieutenant who can not protect a man who has to testify against the Mafia. From the novel "Mute Witness" by Robert L. Pike won the Oscar for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and understand that it is also due to the famous car chase (the most famous and fascinating history of cinema) along the slopes of the streets of San Francisco, including a Ford Mustang GT390 Fastback and a Dodge Charger R / T 440 Magnum.
A remake is under study since 2003 with Brad Pitt assigned to the party that was Steve McQueen. Despite the desire of producers to go ahead with the project, the film got the green light and was stalled.
were years of great successes, but also loss of life.
Steve McQueen in a scene from the looter Boon
In 1969 he starred in The Reives - Boon the sacking of Mark Ridell, where is the light-hearted that daredevil across half of America, on board a yellow car to go to reach the loved one who works in a casino Memphis. The unique and heartfelt performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination and the second of his career, the Oscar for Best Actor. The film is a lovely evocation of the era, directed with grace and played with brio. The subjective Faulkner has rarely had as much luck the cinema.
1969 was also the year in which miraculously escaped the massacre of Charles Manson, which took place on the evening of August 9 at Cielo Drive, when a group of four members of the "family" by Manson burst into the villa of Roman Polanski and massacred Sharon Tate, the wife of the director, the eighth month of pregnancy, and five of his guests.
Steve McQueen starred in The 24 Hours of Le Mans
In 1971 vents his passion for cars, speed, racing and hard men, with Le Mans - The 24 hours Le Mans , a film by Lee H. Katzin with Luc Merenda and Angelo Infanti, a tribute to the legendary French race. McQueen, pilot in life, is the master on his Porsche even if it arrives after a Ferrari. Underlined by the retarder, the insistence on images of cars that catch fire and disintegrate is information about the dangers of Formula One or even a reflection on the value of human life? Do not preach: exhibition.
In 1972, after endless bickering, divorced Neile Adams.
The forty years of Steve McQueen do not see it in great shape: ANSI, paranaie, inadeguadezza undisguised, and even drug problems.
Steve McQueen is the interpreter of the film Last boscadero
But there's two films directed by Sam Peckinpah, the western Junior Bonner - L 'last boscadero , where the disillusioned rodeo cowboy, who spends the money you won the last tournament, to buy his father a ticket to Australia, where he had always hoped to escape.
After the orgy of violence de "The Wild Bunch" (1969) and "Straw Dogs" (1971), Peckinpah returned to his roots as deeply American film director, a traditionalist and rural areas. Good McQueen and credible. A few moments of lyrical melancholy in this quiet story about those who "must be taken to maintain the horses."
Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in Paramount fantastic Getaway
especially Getaway (1972) with Ali McGraw and Al Lettieri, which tells the story of a robber and his escape to freedom, with his lady and the loot; screenplay by Walter Hill and based on the novel by Jim Thompson (1959) is an effective compromise between the ambitions of Peckinpah and McQueen to stardom ... a critical and commercial success that scoops the box office and delivery McQeen Olympus Hollywood.
In 1973, McQueen married for the second time. The glamorous actress wife Ali MacGraw, his partner in Getaway , met during the filming of the movie.
Steve McQueen is the lifer of cayenne, constantly on the run, in the movie Papillon
the same year of marriage, performance opposite Dustin Hoffman, inveterate forger, the character of Henry Carr, the unfortunate lifer of cayenne in Papillon, dreaming and trying, with unwavering determination, one can not escape to freedom. The film is taken from a best-selling autobiography (1969) by Henri Charriere and written by Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr.
The film earned him his third Oscar nomination, but was panned by critics and adored by the public, so it collects $ 60 million in one year.
Steve McQueen is the interpreter next to Paul Newman from The Towering Inferno
The Towering Inferno - The Towering Inferno is 1974, and we find the heroic fire chief of San Francisco, working to rescue the prisoners of the fire, broke the 138 th floor of a skyscraper, due to a short circuit occurred for the savings of the manufacturer of materials used. In addition to successfully ruled the film, a milestone in the disaster genre, the audience, especially among women, indulges itself in order to determine if blue eyes were more beautiful than those of McQueen or Paul Newman, his partner in film Guillermin , winner of three Academy Awards. The very thick then cast includes actors like William Holden, Fred Astaire, Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Jones, Robert Waughn, Richard Chamberlain, Orenthal James Simpson, Robert Wagner and Susan Flanney.
But McQueen's personal life is increasingly unstable, it should be treated by an analyst and increasingly relies on drugs, and the result is that it provides for some years.
After three years of silence, in 1977 he decided to interpret An Enemy of the People - An Enemy of the People George Schaefer, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's eponymous work of Ibsen, with whom McQueen tried to get rid of stereotypes Hollywood, which is panned by critics and audiences.
In 1978, the catastrophe is married, divorced from Ali MacGraw and choose the twenty-two model Barbara Minty.
are the hardest years, McQueen begins to have serious health problems, retired to Santa Paula to detoxify, stop with the abuses and vices, dedicate themselves to the new woman and getting into shape.
spends his time flying airplanes of the era, to do charity, run by motorcycle in the mud or sit cross-legged in the desert, along with the Navajo Indians.
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In 1979 obtained a patent for a private pilot, having learned to fly a biplane "Stearman", then sold at auction in 1982.
The following year, runs on the penultimate film, Tom Horn , drawn by memories of the gun-toting thieves who defends a group of breeders of Wyoming, but then they, in response, accusing him of a crime, which, saddened and disappointed, refused to defend himself. Penultimate film of S. McQueen, who died at age 50 in 1980: it was like the good wine, aging, improves. Semiwestern autumn nostalgia, punctilious Areas. Wonderful photo of John Alonso.
The film represents the last, great performance by McQueen, who is able to convey, with great expressive power, all the disappointment of a man betrayed and lost.
During the filming he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
In the same year he decided to marry Barbara Minty, his last companion of life.
Steve McQueen in a scene from his latest film, The Hunter
That same year, now sick, turn The Hunter - The Hunter Buzz Kulik with Eli Wallach, the biography of Ralph Thorson, a modern bounty hunter, anguished by the future fatherhood, because he knows the corrupt and violent world. History rough where it mixes violence with sensitivity, the picaresque with the tender. The race for a sports car and a thresher through a field of corn will not forget. And 'the last appearance of the great actor.
McQueen In July of that year, he entered a clinic in Mexico, in Juarez, away from everything and everyone, only to die as he lived.
few months after the press revealed the nature of his illness.
died Nov. 7 of that year, only fifty years.
Steve McQueen owner of weapons collections and exceptional sports cars famous
was the owner of an exceptional collection of weapons, and fequentò, along with James Coburn, gyms martial arts Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, before they too become successful actors in action movies.
addition to the three Oscar nominations, the actor has won in 1968 Photoplay Award for Most Popular Male Star and scored three nominations for a Golden Globe in 1967 for The Sand Pebbles, Boon in 1970 for the and plunderer in 1974 Papillon. In 1967 he won a Golden Globe as "World Film Favorite."
Steve McQueen and Triumph TR6 Trophy BMW masked in an attempt de The Great Escape
McQueen is remembered not only for the acting talent, including his passion for racing, motorcycle and automotive. When he had the chance, he loved to do without stand-ins and turn himself the scenes were usually carried out by the "stuntman". The most famous motor
scenes were filmed for the movie Bullitt and at the end of the film The Great Escape when trying to reach Switzerland on board a motorcycle Triumph TR6 Trophy disguised like a wartime BMW. Only the scene of the jump over barbed wire was performed by stuntman Bud Ekins. McQueen had wanted to try the scene for the first time, but ended with a crash and the production, not to risk an injury, forced the star to the point of not trying again. In all other chase scenes, there was never a real need for a "stunt."
During his film career McQueen took part in several races and many times considered the option of abandoning the cinema to devote himself entirely to racing. In 1970 participated in the 12 Hours of Sebring with Peter Revson with a Porsche 908 Spyder (driving with one foot bandaged because of a previous motorcycle accident) coming first in its category and second overall in only 23 "from the winner Mario Andretti in a Ferrari.
In 1971 the same Porsche 908 was used as a" camera car "for the film The 24 Hours of Le Mans. The film was a flop at the box office and was a big fiasco in McQueen's career, but after many years is remembered as a realistic statement about one of the most famous periods in motoring history and as one of the best racing film ever made. McQueen, however, did not attend the 24 hours of 1970 since production of the film actor denied support if he had competed.
The actor also participated in several motorcycle races in the sixties and seventies mostly on board a Triumph Bonneville and a 500cc Triumph purchased from Bud Ekins. Among other competitions also took part in the Baja 1000, the Mint 400, the Elsinore Grand Prix in 1964 and was chosen to represent the U.S. at the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE). At his death, his collection included more than 100 models of motorcycles valued at several million dollars.
Steve McQueen had also been lucky enough to own some of the most famous sports cars of the time as to example: the Porsche 908, Porsche 917, Porsche 356 and Porsche 911 Carrera S, Ferrari 512, Ferrari 250 Berlinetta Luxury (auctioned by Christie's California in August 2007 for € 1.7 million) and the Jaguar D-Type XKSS.
Steve McQueen on the Ford Mustang GT Bullitt film
To his great regret, but McQueen was never able to come into possession of the Ford Mustang GT used in the movie Bullitt . According to the director of the movie in fact, none of the two cars (still existing) used for the shooting has never been owned by the plaintiff. Over 90 years, leaving the Ford Puma, a striking montage meant that McQueen riding in the advertising. In the spot we see the actor driving the Puma on the streets of California, fold up in a garage along with a replica of the bike he used The great escape and Ford Mustang GT 1968. A moment later, everything disappears and there remains only the Puma.
Steve McQueen with the stuntman Bud Ekins on the 450 hp Chevy Beast in The Baja Boot
In 1979 he was diagnosed with mesothelioma (a tumor of the pleura associated with asbestos exposure ). McQueen died in a clinic in Mexico, after two consecutive heart attacks, at 15:45, 7 November 1980 next to the last wife and friend and flight instructor Sammy Mason. Twenty-four hours before he was successfully removed surgically and stomach cancer. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.
taken from Film Scoop, MyMovies, Wikipedia and The Yard Selvedge
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