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His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the 1960s and 1970s. He was nicknamed the " King of Cool " and used the alias Harvey Mushman in motor races. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles (1966).
Steve McQueen. Actor: The Great Escape. He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor.
Jul 1, 2024 · Steve McQueen (1930–80) was a macho, laconic American movie star of the 1960s and ’70s. Cool and stoical, his loner heroes spoke through actions and rarely with words. His best-known films included The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, and The Thomas Crown Affair.
Apr 3, 2014 · Steve McQueen is a British artist, director and screenwriter best known for his films 'Hunger,' 'Shame' and '12 Years a Slave,' which won the Academy Award for best picture.
Jun 27, 2024 · Steve McQueen (born October 9, 1969, Ealing, near London, England) is a British director, screenwriter, and artist best known to the general public for his feature-length commercial films Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), and 12 Years a Slave (2013).
Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor who had an extensive career in film and television. Popularly known as the "King of Cool", [2] McQueen's screen persona was that of portraying cool, reticent antihero roles, which appealed strongly to the masses.
Steve McQueen rose to fame in 1960, starring together with Yul Brynner, in the Western movie The Magnificent Seven. Three years after that success. He starred in another movie that would become a classic The Great Escape (1963), where he plays the role of a U.S. soldier imprisoned in a Nazi Prisoner of war camp.
