Happy 93rd Birthday Steve McQueen

Today is the 93rd birthday of Steve McQueen.  A true Style Icon, I covet his sunglasses, Rolex, car, haircut and the suits he wore in his movies. He was on the Manson Family’s “Death List” and the Rolling Stones referenced him in their song Starfucker. When it comes down to it, he was a fucking badass and the rest of us are stupid posers. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left.

NAME: Steven Terrence McQueen
OCCUPATION: Film Actor
BIRTH DATE: March 24, 1930
DEATH DATE: November 07, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH: Beech Grove, Indiana
PLACE OF DEATH: Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
CAUSE OF DEATH: Mesothelioma
REMAINS: Cremated (ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean)

 National Cowboy Hall of Fame
 Hollywood Walk of Fame 12-Jun-1986

Wife: Neile Adams (m. 2-Nov-1956, div. 26-Apr-1972, one son, one daughter)
Son: Chad McQueen (actor, b. 28-Dec-1960)
Daughter: Terry McQueen (d. 1998 respiratory failure)
Wife: Ali MacGraw (m. 1973, div. 1978)
Wife: Barbara Minty (m. 16-Jan-1980)
Girlfriend: Natalie Wood

BEST KNOWN FOR: One of the most popular actors of the 1960s and 70s, Steve McQueen had a cool, tough guy persona. One of his most famous films is The Thomas Crown Affair.

Terrence Stephen “Steve” McQueen was an American movie actor. He was nicknamed “The King of Cool.” His “anti-hero” persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno. In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world. Although McQueen was combative with directors and producers, his popularity put him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries.

He was an avid racer of both motorcycles and cars. While he studied acting, he supported himself partly by competing in weekend motorcycle races and bought his first motorcycle with his winnings. He is recognized for performing many of his own stunts, but one of the most widely claimed and cherished examples of this—that he did the majority of the stunt driving for his character during the high-speed chase scene in Bullitt—was revealed not to be true by his most trusted stuntman and stunt driver Loren James. McQueen also designed and patented a bucket seat and transbrake for race cars.

The blue-tinted sunglasses (Persol 714) worn by McQueen in the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair sold at a Bonhams & Butterfields auction in Los Angeles for $70,200 in 2006.

The Rolex Explorer II 2 Reference 1655, is also now so-called Rolex Steve McQueen in the horology collectors world, but the Rolex Submariner Reference 5512 he was often photographed wearing in private moments sold for $234,000 at auction on June 11, 2009, a world-record price for the reference.

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Hunter (1-Aug-1980)
Tom Horn (28-Mar-1980) · Tom Horn
An Enemy of the People (17-Mar-1978)
The Towering Inferno (10-Dec-1974) · Chief O’Hallorhan
Papillon (16-Dec-1973) · Henri ‘Papillon’ Charriere
The Getaway (13-Dec-1972)
Junior Bonner (2-Aug-1972)
On Any Sunday (28-Jul-1971) · Himself
Le Mans (23-Jun-1971) · Michael Delaney
The Reivers (25-Dec-1969) · Boon
Bullitt (17-Oct-1968) · Bullitt
The Thomas Crown Affair (19-Jun-1968) · Thomas Crown
The Sand Pebbles (20-Dec-1966)
Nevada Smith (10-Jun-1966) · Nevada Smith
The Cincinnati Kid (15-Oct-1965) · The Cincinnati Kid
Baby the Rain Must Fall (12-Jan-1965)
Love with the Proper Stranger (25-Dec-1963)
Soldier in the Rain (27-Nov-1963) · Sgt. Eustis Clay
The Great Escape (4-Jul-1963) · Hilts
The War Lover (25-Oct-1962)
Hell Is for Heroes (26-Jun-1962)
The Honeymoon Machine (10-Jul-1961) · Lt. Fergie Howard
The Magnificent Seven (23-Oct-1960) · Vin
Never So Few (7-Dec-1959) · Bill Ringa
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (10-Sep-1959)
The Blob (12-Sep-1958) · Steve Andrews
Never Love a Stranger (22-Jun-1958)