Anybody ever hear of the late movie star Steve McQueen? He is my favorite actor of all time. It seems like almost every movie he starred in was good to say the least. I liked him in "The Magnificent Seven", "Bullitt", and "The Towering Inferno". Other McQeen films I want to see are

The Blob
Hell is for Heroes
The Great Escape
The Cincinnati Kid
Nevada Smith
The Sand Pebbles
The Thomas Crown Affair
Le Mans
The Getaway
Papillon

Who else likes Steve McQueen?

Originally posted by Brian
Anybody ever hear of the late movie star Steve McQueen? He is my favorite actor of all time. It seems like almost every movie he starred in was good to say the least. I liked him in "The Magnificent Seven", "Bullitt", and "The Towering Inferno". Other McQeen films I want to see are

The Blob
Hell is for Heroes
The Great Escape
The Cincinnati Kid
Nevada Smith
The Sand Pebbles
The Thomas Crown Affair
Le Mans
The Getaway
Papillon

Who else likes Steve McQueen?

Steve McQueen is my favorite actor too. His best movies (imo) are


Bullitt
the Great Escape
The Sand Pebbles
the Magnificent Seven
Papillon
The Getaway
The Thomas Crown Affair
Junior Bonner

My favorite Steve McQueen movies:

The Blob

Bullitt

The Getaway

The Thomas Crown Affair

Papillon

The Sand Pebbles

I like The Towering Inferno The Getaway and The Great Escape.

How can I be the first person to mention Love With a Proper Stranger? I love that movie and he's wonderful in it. Him and Natalie Wood were fantastic and had great chemistry together.

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I still haven't seen the Towering Inferno, can you believe it? I really want to. Dang it. It's next on my list.

I love all of Steven McQueen's movies, especially The Getaway, Papillon and The Towering Inferno.

He was gorgeous....such a shame he died so young. He really fought that cancer with everything he had.

Originally posted by Liza


I still haven't seen the Towering Inferno, can you believe it? I really want to. Dang it. It's next on my list.


That movie has the one of the best casts for a film.

Steve McQueen
Paul Newman (The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
William Holden (Sunset Blvd., Stalag 17)
Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde, The Thomas Crown Affair)
Fred Astaire (a great dancer)
Richard Chamberlain (TV's Dr. Kildare)
Jennifer Jones
O.J. Simpson
Robert Vaughn (TV's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Maginificent Seven, Bullitt)
Robert Wagner (The Pink Panther, TV's Hart to Hart, TV's It Takes a Thieft, and TV's Switch)

I don't think it can get any better than that.

I like Steve McQueen's films, too. I've only seen The Cincinnatti Kid,The Getaway and Bullitt, though. I still want to see The Chase sometime. It is a shame he died so young. Wasn't he just in his late forties or early fifties when he died? Has anyone heard the song "Steve McQueen" by Sheryl Crow. The lyrics "All I need's a fast machine. You'll never catch me tonight." made me think of The Getaway because as the title suggests in the film Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw's characters got away from the police.

Originally posted by Brian
That movie has the one of the best casts for a film.

Steve McQueen
Paul Newman (The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
William Holden (Sunset Blvd., Stalag 17)
Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde, The Thomas Crown Affair)
Fred Astaire (a great dancer)
Richard Chamberlain (TV's Dr. Kildare)
Jennifer Jones
O.J. Simpson
Robert Vaughn (TV's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Maginificent Seven, Bullitt)
Robert Wagner (The Pink Panther, TV's Hart to Hart, TV's It Takes a Thieft, and TV's Switch)

I don't think it can get any better than that.

I know! I've heard nothing but good things about this movie - and it was Jennifer Jones's comeback (well, u know what I mean) and Richard Chamberlain... I gotta see this! :)

Originally posted by crystals
I like Steve McQueen's films, too. I've only seen The Cincinnatti Kid,The Getaway and Bullitt, though. I still want to see The Chase sometime. It is a shame he died so young. Wasn't he just in his late forties or early fifties when he died? Has anyone heard the song "Steve McQueen" by Sheryl Crow. The lyrics "All I need's a fast machine. You'll never catch me tonight." made me think of The Getaway because as the title suggests in the film Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw's characters got away from the police.

I think he was fifty. Wasn't he married to Ali McGraw? I know he briefly dated Natalie Wood before she got back together with Robert Wagner.

Yes, he was married to Ali McGraw. He was also about 49 when he died.

McQueen was without a doubt the definition of big screen cool.

From "Great Escape" to "Cincinatti Kid" to "Towering Inferno," he dominated every movie he was in.

One of my faves is "The Hunter." it's got one of the best chase sequences ever filmed.

It was a shame he died so young.

A couple of my favorites:

Papillon

The Cincinnati Kid

The Great Escape

The Magnificent Seven

Also, his series, Wanted: Dead or Alive was excellent.

When you have a nickname The King of Cool, you know you've got something going on.

Originally posted by TJL
McQueen was without a doubt the definition of big screen cool.

Him and James Dean ;)

McQueen was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's house the night of the Manson murders but he met a woman and spent the night with her........it kept him alive for another 11 years.

Originally posted by Eddie Haskell
A couple of my favorites:

Papillon

The Cincinnati Kid

The Great Escape

The Magnificent Seven

Also, his series, Wanted: Dead or Alive was excellent.

When you have a nickname The King of Cool, you know you've got something going on.
I never saw Wanted Dead Or Alive. I wish some network would rerun it.

Originally posted by Eddie Haskell
McQueen was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's house the night of the Manson murders but he met a woman and spent the night with her........it kept him alive for another 11 years.


Oh yeah, I read about that. In fact, McQueen was #1 on Manson's death list.

I liked him and Natalie Wood in "Love With The Proper Stranger"

Originally posted by Eddie Haskell
McQueen was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's house the night of the Manson murders but he met a woman and spent the night with her........it kept him alive for another 11 years.

Supposedly everyone in Hollywood was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's house that night. The police said that had everyone come that was invited there "would have been no room for the murderers!" But what probably happened was that most celebs had the dates confused with a party that was scheduled later that week.

Originally posted by Penny Lane
I liked him and Natalie Wood in "Love With The Proper Stranger"

That was just on in the New England area this past Sunday. I missed most of it but it looks like a good one. I'll have to rent it or something.

Originally posted by Liza
Supposedly everyone in Hollywood was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's house that night. The police said that had everyone come that was invited there "would have been no room for the murderers!" But what probably happened was that most celebs had the dates confused with a party that was scheduled later that week.

From IMDB:

"A week before the Woodstock Music Festival kicked off in Bethel, New York, McQueen had been invited for dinner at the Roman Polanski-Sharon Tate home in the Hollywood hills by mutual friend and hairdresser-to the-stars, Jay Sebring. An unexpected rendezvous with a mystery woman prompted him to cancel his appointment. In the wake of the Manson Family Tate-LaBianca murders at, respectively, 10050 Cielo Drive and 3301 Waverly Drive, McQueen would later learn that he was accorded the kind of priority billing for which he was unprepared: he topped Charles Manson's celebrity death list. Thereafter he carried a concealed weapon."

Originally posted by Eddie Haskell
From IMDB:

"A week before the Woodstock Music Festival kicked off in Bethel, New York, McQueen had been invited for dinner at the Roman Polanski-Sharon Tate home in the Hollywood hills by mutual friend and hairdresser-to the-stars, Jay Sebring. An unexpected rendezvous with a mystery woman prompted him to cancel his appointment. In the wake of the Manson Family Tate-LaBianca murders at, respectively, 10050 Cielo Drive and 3301 Waverly Drive, McQueen would later learn that he was accorded the kind of priority billing for which he was unprepared: he topped Charles Manson's celebrity death list. Thereafter he carried a concealed weapon."

I know, I'd read that too. What I don't understand is why McQueen would be on Manson's list. It can't be because he was friends with Polanski/Tate, because the murderers weren't even after them. They were after the owner of the house, Terry Melcher (Doris Day's son) who had refused Manson a record deal. Strange.

Originally posted by Liza
I know, I'd read that too. What I don't understand is why McQueen would be on Manson's list. It can't be because he was friends with Polanski/Tate, because the murderers weren't even after them. They were after the owner of the house, Terry Melcher (Doris Day's son) who had refused Manson a record deal. Strange.

I also heard that Frank Sinatra was on their list. They planned to hang him upside down and skin him alive. I've never had that done to me but I'd be willing to bet that it could be quite painful. :eek:

Steve Mcqueen is one of my all time favorite actors! He was fantastic in all his movies and I still feel he was cheated out of an Oscar for Papillon. That was one awesome performance.

He grew up as a troubled boy and spent time at a school for boys which he credits for helping him change his wild ways (sort of). When he became famous he gave big financial gifts to the school to help other boys. Amazing man.:)

Steve McQueen is along side Al Pacino as my all time favorite actor. Though I love pretty much every movie he ever made, Bullitt is my all time favorite. I've watched that movie like once a month since I was sixteen and I'm 28 now!:dog:

- Bullitt ('68)
- The Great Escape ('63)
- Papillon ('73)
- The Towering Inferno ('74)

A hugely overlooked Mcqueen movie is Soldier in the Rain. Made by Blake Edwards, it costars Jackie Gleason. Hilarious, and hard to find.
Have a copy I'd glad trade for any Wanted Dead of Alive discs