Steve McQueen sometime in the 60s. He died on this day 42 years ago at the age of 50. He is my favorite actor ever and undoubtedly the coolest screen actor ever
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Steve McQueen sometime in the 60s. He died on this day 42 years ago at the age of 50. He is my favorite actor ever and undoubtedly the coolest screen actor ever
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Brando was way cooler imo. But mcqueen’s up there.
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Damn. I didn’t realize he was so young.
I don’t know if it’s true, but I once read that he put a 911 engine in a VW bug to make a great sleeper car. Thought that was so cool. 🙂
He was a douche bag to his wife and family.
His health and lifestyle didn’t help but damn people just looked older back then. This is a picture of a handsome man in his 30’s
Had to read that title a couple of times. First read through I thought they were claiming McQueen was in his 60s but died at 50. I mean I wouldn’t have put it past him to be too cool to be taken by the reaper right away, but still.
I recently watched the original the Thomas Crown affair. Marvelous movie! So mature and intelligent. Made me sad thinking about the Brosnan fiasco.
Lung darted himself to death. Just a tremendous actor. Love his work.
Age of 50. I’m 65 and that hurts, when I think of all the wonderful experiences I’ve had since I was 50.
McQueen, the only actor that didn’t have to utter 1 word and could still be defined as COOL!
Didn’t matter what he was wearing or what he was doing, he was no doubt The Coolest ever.
EVERYONE: go watch Steve McQueens 1971 movie “Le Mans” if you’ve never seen it. It’s the best car/racing movie ever made. It may be my favorite film. Tied with The Warriors, The Sting, the first two Dirty Harry movies, Bullitt, The French Connection, All the President’s Men and Three Days of the Condor. Newman, Redford, and McQueen and my style gurus.
he looks like what the James Bond charater of the past decade got his schtick from
The Thomas Crown Affair
Bullitt
The Sand Pebbles
LeMans
Those are my favorites.
1968 Bullitt, greatest Hollywood car chase scene. All his movies are good.
He beat the crap out of Ali MacGraw on screen in the Getaway. Like actually smacked her around—without telling her in advance. Hard to reconcile that
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Reminds me of that fella back home who fell off a ten story building.
As he was falling people on each floor kept hearing him say “so far so good!”
So far so good!
He was the epitome of cool
Who is that dude from Homeland? The terrorist one? Someone get in touch with his agent to play him in the biopic stat!
could you imagine being 6 or 7 years old, and realizing that your name, “Steve McQueen,” was the coolest name ever, and then actually living up to the name?!!!!
I seriously love him in that episode of Wanted Dead or Alive when he had to keep track of that sheep named Baabaa (however you would spell that hahaha)
I never understood the adulation with this guy. He was extremely insecure as an actor and always tried to upstage others and be the focus even when someone else was speaking.
He tried that BS with Yul Bryner on the Magnificent Seven and almost came to blows.
Petty and ungracious considering Yul got him the role after securing the film rights.
Yul had more charisma in his pinky than Steve had in his whole body.
“Coolest mfer on the silver screen” 🎶 🎶
Harvey Mushman
Fun fact: Lightning McQueen in Pixar’s Cars series is named in honor of Steve McQueen, the ultimate car racer in Hollywood, and so of course Paul Newman gets to play McQueen’s mentor, named for the classic Racing car, the Hudson Hornet.
So cool. I want those sunglasses.
Guy had an absolutely harrowing childhood. Born to a teenage prostitute mom, living on the streets at 10, sent to live with grandparents, ran away, raised in an orphanage, joined the merchant marines, worked as a towel boy in a brothel after his service, then stumbled into acting. Amazing story and deeply complicated person. I love his movies and have total respect.
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman are my top two, nothing but style and class.
Woof. Ali McGraw was married to the most powerful producer in Hollywood and the minute she met him, gave it up and like lived in a cabin. She was dickmatized for sure. Bob Evans was not as attractive as he thought he was.
Died because of asbestos exposure while serving in the military.
I mean you can make that argument for a lot of actors but sure he was cool
Will give him this – Steve was a gearhead and a speed demon.
Case in Point – Steve and his enduring love for ‘The Green Rat’ – his 1957 Jaguar XKSS.
Picture this – Jaguar Racing makes race cars…..fast race cars. Le Mans ‘bat outta hell’ cars designed to basically barely keep a professional driver on a road at breakneck speed.
And Jag racing has a fire….their manufacturing plant of these race cars goes poof and there is no racing this year because no plant equals no parts and no cars. But they have a stable of about 16 cars out of 25 for production. So one genius at Jag goes “hey, let’s slap some shit on them to make them street legal and offer them to the public, special edition”
So, out comes the Jaguar XKSS, a laughably street legal race car in the loosest of terms. It’s low slung, powerful as fuck, and as dangerous as juggling lit dynamite. It’s got huge side pipes that will burn the shit outta your ankles, no safety whatsoever, and an 3.4 XK6 double overhead inline 6 engine strapped into a aluminum lightweight racing chassis that will *turn out 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds*…..*in 1957. It’s a rocket engine with a cockpit.*
Steve was not the original owner. A game show host by the name of Bill Leyden was the second owner and had it sitting in the CBS parking lot (white with red interior). And Steve happened to see it while filming a weather for CBS. And, supposedly Bill came out to find Steve looking under the hood and drooling that gearhead drool we all do when we find a true Holy Grail.
He had to have it…to the point of having his girlfriend write a check for five grand (42 grand in todays money)…and thus the Rat was his.
Steve stripped it down to the bare metal, took off the needless luggage rack, repainted it a deep livery green, replaced the red interior with a black leather, and got Von Dutch to put in a glove compartment (with good reason..the torque from a standing start would cause his shades to fly off the dash). It barely…and I mean BARELY past state inspection.
And this, the legend was born. Steve became synonymous with tearing the living hell outta Hollywood with the green bullet. His late night speed runs up on Muholland Drive lowered property values by sound alone. He got so infamous, the LAPD supposedly offered a full steak dinner at Lawry’s with a case of scotch for any officer who managed to pull him over and ticket him….because his car was for all intents and purposes, the fastest fucking thing on the road in the State.
Steve drove it into the ground….sold it…..then later went back and bought it again. He supposedly thought of it as the one he couldn’t get away from, a machine so in tune with him, it rivaled the Bullit Mustang in his heart.
Cool because sunglasses.
They very definition of cool.
Famously had one weakness as an actor – he could not cry on screen and they tried everything in Hell is for Hero’s, onions, sad stories, other chemicals and evening hitting him, nothing worked.
He turned down the lead for Spielberg’s Close Encounters because he knew he wouldn’t be able to pull off an essential scene.
The guy was a coward and beat his women, nothing cool about that
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The king of cool on the big screen. I loved watching him.
I remember reading back in the day a few of those guys were filming in the desert and enjoyed watching the mushroom clouds when they were testing the nukes. I doubt the massive waves of radiation did them much good. I think all of them died early from cancer. But in those days nobody knew bette.
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I vaguely remember hearing about his passing back in the day. I was in seventh grade at the time.
And now, reading this post, I realized that at 55 years of age I’ve already outlived him and will never be even half as cool as he was.
Definitely the coolest
Gawd!!! Thought I was looking at Daniel Craig for a hot second!!
I remember a House episode when House caught a rat and named him Steve McQueen. So cool..
Him and Paul Newman were my favorites loved Bullitt and Thomas Crown affair.
The definition of cool to be sure. Probably my favorite is The Getaway. I also loved seeing him not as an actor in Any Given Sunday about his love for dirt bikes. He was also great in The Reavers which showed his comic talent. One of my favorite WW2 movies he starred in was Hell is For Heroes. Underrated and a great cast, including Bob Newhart!
Loved the actor (esp. The Sand Pebbles and The Thomas Crown Affair), but he did have plenty of demons. Not an easy person to know or work with, apparently.
What sunglasses are those?