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Steve McQueen was an American actor and film producer who was born on March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana. He was best known for his roles in films such as The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, and The Thomas Crown Affair. McQueen began his career as a stuntman in the 1950s, and eventually moved on to acting in television and film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Sand Pebbles in 1966. McQueen was married three times and had two children. He died of a heart attack on November 7, 1980 at the age of 50. McQueen's net worth at the time of his death was estimated to be around $30 million. He earned most of his wealth from his acting career, but also from investments in real estate and other businesses. He was also a successful race car driver, and owned several cars, including a Ferrari 250 GTO.

Popular As Terrence Stephen McQueen
Occupation actor,producer,soundtrack
Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 24 March 1930
Birthday 24 March
Birthplace Beech Grove, Indiana, U.S.
Date of death November 7, 1980
Died Place Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Nationality United States

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Steve McQueen Height, Weight & Measurements

At 50 years old, Steve McQueen height is 5' 9¾" (1.77 m) .

Physical Status
Height 5' 9¾" (1.77 m)
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Who Is Steve McQueen's Wife?

His wife is Neile Adams (m. November 2, 1956-March 14, 1972) Ali MacGraw (m. July 12, 1973-August 9, 1978) Barbara Minty (m. January 16, 1980)

Family
Parents Not Available
Wife Neile Adams (m. November 2, 1956-March 14, 1972) Ali MacGraw (m. July 12, 1973-August 9, 1978) Barbara Minty (m. January 16, 1980)
Sibling Not Available
Children 2, including Chad McQueen

Steve McQueen Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Steve McQueen worth at the age of 50 years old? Steve McQueen’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Steve McQueen's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)$19 /day
The Blob (1958)$3,000
The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)$4,000
Never So Few (1959)$75,000
The Magnificent Seven (1960)$100,000 (equivalent to $773,000 in 2012)
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)$100,000
Hell Is for Heroes (1962)$150,000
The War Lover (1962)$75,000
The Great Escape (1963)$400,000 (equivalent to $3,000,000 in 2012)
Soldier in the Rain (1963)$200,000 + 25% of the net to be paid to Solar Productions
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)$300,000
Nevada Smith (1966)$300,000 + 25% of the Net.
The Sand Pebbles (1966)$300,000 + 25% of the Net
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)$650,000 + 25% of the Net.
Bullitt (1968)$1,000,000 (equivalent to $6,500,000 in 2012)
The Reivers (1969)$700,000
Le Mans (1971)$750,000 + % of the gross
Junior Bonner (1972)$500,000
The Getaway (1972)No up front fee in exchange for 10% of the gross.
Papillon (1973)$2,300,000 + % of gross
The Towering Inferno (1974)$1,500,000 + 10% of the gross
An Enemy of the People (1978)$1,500 a week
Tom Horn (1980)3,000,000 + 10% of the gross
The Hunter (1980)$3,000,000 + 15% of gross

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Timeline

2005

McQueen joined the Marine Corps at age 17 and worked as a tank driver and mechanic. He earned a commendation for rescuing five Marines during a training accident. According to military records released by the Pentagon in 2005, Marine Pfc. Steve McQueen was confined to base for 41 days and fined $90 for being absent without leave (AWOL) from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. (Some sources indicate he was AWOL for as long as 21 days [3 weeks] but the exact amount of time he was AWOL is unconfirmed.) He avoided a dishonorable discharge and later took advantage of the GI Bill's education benefits to study at the Actors Studio in New York.

2003

In the movie S.W.A.T. (2003), Colin Farrell's character of Jim Street has a poster of McQueen's Bullitt (1968) in his apartment. In real life, Farrell frequently cites McQueen as one of his idols and influences as an actor.

2002

Sheryl Crow made a song titled "Steve McQueen" as a tribute to him. It is featured on the album "C'mon C'mon" (2002).

2000

Of the 2000 performers who auditioned for Lee Strasberg's exclusive Actors Studio in 1955, only two were accepted: Martin Landau and McQueen. Both men would go on to appear in just two joint ventures, Wanted: Dead or Alive: The Monster (1960) and Nevada Smith (1966).

1998

The band Drive-By Truckers have the tribute song "Steve McQueen" featured on their album "Gangstabilly" (1998).

1997

In October 1997, he was ranked #30 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.

1995

He was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#19) (1995).

1992

He proposed the idea for the drama film The Bodyguard (1992) in 1976. However, this was forgotten for 16 years until 1992, when Kevin Costner revived the idea.

1986

He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on June 12, 1986.

1982

He was very interested in playing John Rambo in the adaptation of the novel "First Blood". He was actually slated to star, but did not due to his death. Sylvester Stallone got the role instead in Rambo: First Blood (1982).

1980

Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular culture. McQueen was born in Beech Grove, Indiana, to Julia Ann (Crawford) and William Terence McQueen, a stunt pilot.

McQueen's last two film performances were in the unusual Western Tom Horn (1980), then he portrayed real-life bounty hunter Ralph "Papa' Thorson (Ralph Thorson) in The Hunter (1980).

By February 1980, there was evidence of widespread metastasis.

While he tried to keep the condition a secret, the National Enquirer disclosed that he had "terminal cancer" on March 11, 1980. In July, McQueen traveled to Rosarito Beach, Mexico for an unconventional treatment after American doctors told him they could do nothing to prolong his life. Controversy arose over McQueen's Mexican trip, because McQueen sought a non-traditional cancer treatment called the Gerson Therapy that used coffee enemas, frequent washing with shampoos, daily injections of fluid containing live cells from cows and sheep, massage and laetrile, a supposedly "natural" anti-cancer drug available in Mexico, but not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. McQueen paid for these unconventional medical treatments by himself in cash payments which was said to have cost an upwards of $40,000 per month during his three-month stay in Mexico.

McQueen returned to the United States in early October 1980. Despite metastasis of the cancer through McQueen's body, Kelley publicly announced that McQueen would be completely cured and return to normal life. McQueen's condition soon worsened and "huge" tumors developed in his abdomen. In late October, McQueen flew to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico to have an abdominal tumor on his liver (weighing around five pounds) removed, despite warnings from his American doctors that the tumor was inoperable and his heart could not withstand the surgery. McQueen checked into a Juarez clinic under the alias "Sam Shepard" where the local Mexican doctors and staff at the small, low-income clinic were unaware of his actual identity.

1979

Shortness of breath grew more pronounced and on December 22, 1979, after he completed work on 'The Hunter', a biopsy revealed pleural mesothelioma, a rare lung cancer associated with asbestos exposure for which there is no known cure. The asbestos was thought to have been in the protective suits worn in his race car driving days, but in fact the auto racing suits McQueen wore were made of Nomex, a DuPont fire-resistant aramid fiber that contains no asbestos. McQueen later gave a medical interview in which he believed that asbestos used in movie sound stage insulation and race-drivers' protective suits and helmets could have been involved, but he thought it more likely that his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging from pipes aboard a troop ship while in the US Marines.

1978

After a four-year hiatus he surprised fans, and was almost unrecognizable under long hair and a beard, as a rabble-rousing early environmentalist in An Enemy of the People (1978), based on the Henrik Ibsen play.

In 1978, McQueen developed a small but persistent cough that would not go away. He quit smoking and underwent antibiotic treatments without improvement.

1977

Was William Friedkin's first choice for the Jackie Scanlon character in Sorcerer (1977). McQueen accepted the part, but on one condition. He wanted a co-starring role for his then wife, Ali MacGraw. Friedkin would not accept his conditions, and McQueen dropped out of the film. Freidkin later went on record has having regretted not accepting McQueen's conditions.

1976

McQueen was treated by William Donald Kelley, whose only medical license had been (until revoked in 1976) for orthodontics.

1974

After the huge success of The Towering Inferno (1974), McQueen announced that any producer wishing to acquire his services would have to send a check for $1.5 million along with the script. If he liked the script and wanted to make the movie, he'd cash the check; the producer then owed him another $1.5 million. He'd keep his half of his $3 million salary if the producer couldn't come up with the other half. McQueen likely used this then-unprecedented pay-or-play arrangement to guarantee the six-year semi-retirement he undertook after "The Towering Inferno", in which he appeared in only one picture, the vanity project An Enemy of the People (1978). When he did return to commercial filmmaking, his price was $3 million.

1973

McQueen's next role was a refreshing surprise and Papillon (1973), based on the Henri Charrière novel of the same name, was well received by fans and critics alike. He played a convict on a French penal colony in South America who persists in trying to escape from his captors and feels their wrath when his attempts fail.

1972

McQueen then teamed up with maverick Hollywood director Sam Peckinpah to star in the modern Western Junior Bonner (1972), about a family of rodeo riders, and again with Peckinpah as bank robber Doc McCoy in the violent The Getaway (1972). Both did good business at the box office.

1971

He returned to more familiar territory, with the race film Le Mans (1971), a rather self-indulgent exercise, and its slow plot line contributed to its rather poor performance in theaters. It was not until many years later that it became something of a cult film, primarily because of the footage of Porsche 917s roaring around race tracks in France.

1970

The 1970s is a decade remembered for a slew of "disaster" movies and McQueen starred in arguably the biggest of the time, The Towering Inferno (1974). He shared equal top billing with Paul Newman and an impressive line-up of co-stars including Fred Astaire, Robert Vaughn and Faye Dunaway. McQueen does not appear until roughly halfway into the film as San Francisco fire chief Mike O'Halloran, battling to extinguish an inferno in a 138-story skyscraper. The film was a monster hit and set the benchmark for other disaster movies that followed. However, it was McQueen's last film role for several years.

1969

Interestingly, McQueen's next role was a total departure from the action genre, as he played Southerner Boon Hogganbeck in the family-oriented The Reivers (1969), based on the popular William Faulkner novel. Not surprisingly, the film didn't go over particularly well with audiences, even though it was an entertaining and well made production, and McQueen showed an interesting comedic side of his acting talents.

1968

McQueen was genuine hot property and next appeared with Faye Dunaway in the provocative crime drama The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), next in what many consider his signature role, that of a maverick, taciturn detective in the mega-hit Bullitt (1968), renowned for its famous chase sequence through San Francisco between McQueen's Ford Mustang GT and the killer's black Dodge Charger.

1966

He was back in another Western, Nevada Smith (1966), again with Malden, and then he gave what many consider to be his finest dramatic performance as loner US Navy sailor Jake Holman in the superb The Sand Pebbles (1966).

1965

However, they failed to really grab audience attention, but his role as Eric Stoner in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), alongside screen legend Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden, had movie fans filling theaters again to see the ice-cool McQueen they loved.

1964

His only two appearances at the Academy Awards were as a presenter: in 1964, he presented the Oscar for Best Sound, and in 1965, holding hands with Claudia Cardinale, he presented the Oscar again for Best Sound.

1963

film The Great Escape (1963), featuring his famous leap over the barbed wire on a motorcycle while being pursued by Nazi troops (in fact, however, the stunt was actually performed by his good friend, stunt rider Bud Ekins).

McQueen next appeared in several films of mixed quality, including Soldier in the Rain (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) and Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965).

1962

He next scored with audiences with two interesting performances, first in the World War II drama Hell Is for Heroes (1962) and then in The War Lover (1962). Riding a wave of popularity, McQueen delivered another crowd pleaser as Hilts, the Cooler King, in the knockout World War II P. O. W.

1960

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.

The young McQueen appeared as Vin, alongside Yul Brynner, in the star-laden The Magnificent Seven (1960) and effectively hijacked the lead from the bigger star by ensuring he was nearly always doing something in every shot he and Brynner were in together, such as adjusting his hat or gun belt.

1959

Louis Bank Robbery (1959) and Never So Few (1959).

1958

His first lead role was in the low-budget sci-fi film The Blob (1958), quickly followed by roles in The Great St.

1956

He was voted the 56th Greatest Movie Star of all time by "Entertainment Weekly".

1931

He was voted the 31st Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere magazine.