Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen was an American actor, nicknamed "The King of Cool" and was considered one of the biggest box office draws of the 1960's and the 1970's.

McQueen studied acting at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio in New York City. He also raced motorcycles and sports cars, often performeing his own stunts in films.

McQueen died of lung cancer on November 7, 1980 at the age of 50.

• 1959: Never So Few
• 1960: The Magnificent Seven
• 1963: The Great Escape
• 1968: Bullitt
• 1973: Papillon

1. "I'm not sure whether I'm an actor who races or a racer who acts".
2. "I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable".

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• May 24th, 1930: Born

• 1956: Somebody Up There Likes Me

• 1958: The Blob

• 1958: Wanted Dead or Alive

• 1959: The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

• 1959: Alfred Hitchcock Presents

• 1959: Never so Few

• 1960: The Magnificent Seven

• 1961: The Honnymoon Machine

• 1962: Hell is for Heros

• 1962: The War Lover

• 1963: The Great Escape

• 1963: Soldier in the Rain

• 1963: Love with the Proper Stranger

• 1965: Baby the Rain Must Fall

• 1965: The Cincinnati Kid

• 1966: Nevada Smith

• 1966: The Sand Pebbles

• 1968: The Thomas Crown Affair

• 1968: Bullit

• 1969: The Reivers

• 1971: La Mans

• 1972: Junior Bonner

• 1972: The Getaway

• 1973: Papillon

• 1974: The Towering Inferno

• 1976: Dixie Dynamite

• 1978: An Enemy of the People

• 1980: Tom Horn

• 1980: The Hunter

• November 7th, 1980: Died

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