Steve McQueen

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Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor.

McQueen was dubbed "The King of Cool" by the 1960s and 1970s, and his antihero persona emerged during the 1960s and 1970s made him a top box-office draw.

For his role in The Sand Pebbles, McQueen received an Academy Award nomination.

The Cincinnati Kid, Love With the Proper Stranger, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Papillon, as well as the all-star ensemble films The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and The Towering Inferno are among his other popular films.

He made history by becoming the highest-paid movie actor in the country in 1974, but he didn't return to film for four years.

McQueen was adamant against writers and producers, but his fame made him in high demand and allowed him to command large salaries.

Early life

Terrence Stephen McQueen was born in Beech Grove, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis, on March 24, 1930. McQueen, who is of Scottish descent, was raised a Roman Catholic. His parents never married. William McQueen, a stunt pilot for a barnstorming flying circus, left Julia Ann (a.k.a.). Julianne Crawford, a 9-month-old girl, was born in France. Julia Ann, according to several biographers, was alcoholic. 77-88 In 1933, an eight-year-old girl was abandoned by a woman who was unable to care for a young child. McQueen and his grandparents joined Lillian's brother Claude and his family at their farm in Slater as the Great Depression grew. McQueen recalled fond memories of life on the farm, noting that his uncle, Claude "was a very nice man, very strong, very fair." I learned a lot from him."

On his fourth birthday, Claude gave McQueen a red tricycle, which McQueen credited with re-igniting his early interest in motor racing. McQueen's mother married and when the boy was eight years old, she and her new husband married in Indianapolis. At his death, his great-uncle Claude gave McQueen a special gift. "Uncle Claude gave me a personal going-away gift—a gold pocket watch with an inscription inside the case." "To Steve, who has been a brother to me," the inscription read.

McQueen, who was dyslexic and partially deaf due to a childhood ear infection, did not do well with school or his new life. His stepfather beat him to the point where he quit home to live on the streets at nine years old. He later wrote, "When a child doesn't have any love when he's young, he starts to wonder if he's good enough." My mother didn't love me and I didn't have a father. "Well, I must not be very good," I thought. He was soon running for a street gang and commiting acts of petty theft. His mother sent him back to his grandparents and great-uncle in Slater because she was unable to regulate his behavior.

Julia was 12, when McQueen was 12, she wrote to her uncle Claude, asking that her son be returned to her son in Los Angeles, California, where she spent with her second husband. He and his new stepfather "locked horns right away," according to McQueen's own account. McQueen recalls him as "a prime son of a bitch" who was not opposed to using his fists against McQueen and his mother. For the final time, McQueen began to revolt again, he was sent back to live with Claude. He left Claude's farm without saying goodbye and joined a circus for a brief period of time at age 14. In Los Angeles, he went back to his mother and grandfather, reuniting his life as a member of a gang member and petty criminal. McQueen was caught by the police stealing hubcaps and turning over to his stepfather, who beat him severely. He led the child down a flight of stairs. "You lay your stinking hands on me again, and I swear, I'll kill you," McQueen said.

McQueen's stepfather begged his mother to sign a court order stating that McQueen was incorrigible, remanding him to the California Junior Boys Republic in Chino after this incident. McQueen began to change and mature here. At first, he was not popular with the other boys: he was not popular:

McQueen became a role model and was elected to the Boys Council, a body that made the rules and regulations governing the boys' lives. At the age of 16, he left the Boys Republic. He returned to visit resident boys and maintained a lifelong association with the center when he became well-known as an actor.

McQueen returned to live with his mother, who had migrated to Greenwich Village in New York City, at the age of 16. He met two sailors from the Merchant Marine and decided to sign on to a ship heading for the Dominican Republic. He left his new job and ended up working in a brothel. Later McQueen moved to Texas and went from job to job, including selling pens at a traveling carnival and being a lumberjack in Canada. He was jailed in the Deep South for vaping and did a 30-day stint on a chain gang.

McQueen enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1947 after receiving permission from his mother (since he wasn't yet 18 years old). He was sent to Parris Island for boot camp. 106 He was pushed into a private first class and assigned to an armoured unit. He had trouble adapting to the service's code of conduct and was banned from public seven times. He skipped out on University by failing to return after a weekend pass expired. When staying with a girlfriend (Barbara Ross) for two weeks, he was apprehended by the shore patrol. He was sentenced to 41 days in the brig for refusing to be arrested.

McQueen, who had previously devoted his attention on self-improvement, began to focus on self-improvement and accepted the Marines' code. During an Arctic expedition, he saved five other Marines by removing them from a tank before the sun broke through ice into the sea. He was sent to the honor guard in charge of guarding US President Harry Truman's presidential yacht. McQueen served until 1950, when he was honorably discharged. 106 He later said he loved his time in the Marines. "The Marines made a man out of me," he recalled when he was recalled as a formative point in his life. "I learned how to get along with others, and I had a platform to jump off of."

Personal life

McQueen dated Gia Scala while attending Stella Adler's school in New York.

He married Filipino actress and dancer Neile Adams, with whom he had a daughter, Terry Leslie (June 5, 1959 – March 19, 1960), and his son, Chad (born December 28, 1960). In 1972, McQueen and Adams divorced. My Husband, My Friend Adams' autobiography, she wrote that she had an abortion in 1971, when their marriage was in jeopardy. Steven R. McQueen (who is best known for playing Jeremy Gilbert in The Vampire Diaries and Jimmy Borelli in Chicago Fire) is one of McQueen's four grandchildren.

Mamie Van Doren claimed to have had an affair with McQueen and used hallucinogens with him around 1959. Lauren Hutton, an actress, also stated that she had a relationship with McQueen in the early 1960s. While living separately from Adams, McQueen had a friendship with Junior Bonner co-star Barbara Leigh, which involved her pregnancy and an abortion.

McQueen married actress Ali MacGraw, his co-star in The Getaway, in 1973, but their affair ended in divorce in 1978. MacGraw suffered with a miscarriage during their marriage. MacGraw was the one true love of McQueen's life, according to some: "He was madly in love with her until the day he died."

McQueen, James Coburn, Bruce Lee's brother Robert Lee, Peter Chin, Dan Inosanto, and Taky Kimura were among the pallbearers at Bruce Lee's funeral in 1973.

McQueen recalled:

McQueen married Barbara Minty on January 16, 1980, less than a year before his death. McQueen became an Evangelical Christian near the end of his life, according to Barbara Minty's book Steve McQueen: The Last Mile. This was due in large part to his flying instructor, Sammy Mason, Mason's son Pete, and Barbara herself. McQueen attended Ventura Missionary Church in his hometown and was visited by evangelist Billy Graham shortly before his death.

McQueen maintained a two-hour exercise program that included weightlifting and, at one point, running 5 miles (8 km) per week. McQueen learned the martial art Tang Soo Do from ninth-degree black belt Pat E. Johnson.

McQueen smoked marijuana almost every day, according to photographer William Claxton; biographer Marc Eliot said McQueen used a lot of cocaine in the early 1970s. He was also a big cigarette smoker. McQueen was often inebriated, and he was jailed in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1972.

The media announced that two months after Charles Manson ordered the assassination of five people, including McQueen's friends Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring, McQueen's cousins, McQueen's friend Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring, the newspaper announced that police had discovered a hit list with McQueen's name on it. McQueen's first wife, Sebring, was seen wielding a handgun in public, even at his funeral.

When agreeing to film, McQueen had a reputation for demanding free items in bulk from studios. It was later discovered that McQueen donated the items to the Boys Republic reformatory school, where he had spent time during his teen years. McQueen used to come back to the classroom to spend time with the students, often to play pool and talk about his experiences.

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