Steve McQueen - Movie Actor and Style Icon. 'The King of Cool'.

He was born Terence Steven McQueen in Beech Grove, Indiana. He never knew his father -- although McQueen did find the house where he lived approximately a year after his father's death. McQueen's father abandoned his wife and child shortly after McQueen was born. He was raised in Slater, Missouri by his uncle, where his mother left him. At the age of 12 McQueen moved with his mother to Los Angeles. When he was 14, his mother sent him to a reformatory school (Boy's Republic in Chino, CA). Soon McQueen left the school and drifted before joining the Marines in 1947. Career In 1952, with financial assistance of the G.I. Bill, began studying acting and auditioned to study at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio in New York. Of the 2000 people who auditioned that year, only McQueen and Martin Landau were accepted. McQueen made his Broadway debut in 1955 in A Hatful of Rain. McQueen moved into film in the mid-1950s with bit parts in Girl on the Run (1953) and Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). He secured his first lead role in the 1958 horror movie The Blob. Between 1958 and 1960 he gained recognition with the television series Wanted: Dead or Alive. Along with Yul Brynner, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, McQueen's first major hit was The Magnificent Seven (1960). The film was based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. McQueen's most popular film was 1963's The Great Escape (which also starred Bronson and Coburn). Quentin Tarantino has called the film the shortest three hour movie he's ever seen. Another successful film came in 1968 with Bullitt. Prior to that, he earned his only Academy Award nomination for the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles. McQueen also appeared in 1973's Papillon, the 1971 car race drama Le Mans and in The Getaway in 1972. After The Towering Inferno co-starring long time rival Paul Newman in 1974, McQueen did not return to film until 1978. When he returned to film in 1978's An Enemy of the People he played against type an overweight heavily bearded character. McQueen was a motorcycle and racecar enthusiast. When he had the opportunity to drive these vehicles in a movie, he often did so himself, performing many of his own stunts. He competed in off-road motorcycle racing. During his acting career he considered becoming a professional race car driver. In 1971, McQueen's production company Solar Productions funded production of the now-classic motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday, in which McQueen himself is featured, along with racing legends Mert Lawwill and Malcolm Smith. After 1978 he appeared in two films, Tom Horn and The Hunter before he died in November of 1980, in Juárez, Mexico due to a heart attack following an effort (using alternative therapies) to fight mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure. It is unclear whether the asbestos exposure came from his racing career or from an experience in the Marines. After his death, McQueen has remained an American icon. In 1999, McQueen was posthumously inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame.

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