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I actually, briefly, knew Steve, He lived in Santa Paula, Ca and occasionally hung around my my Fathers gas station with Von Dutch who lived right across the street in an old school bud. Steve was by nature a very quite person. He had a very unhappy childhood and could not fathom why he of all people on the planet Earth was chosen to be a highly paid movie actor. Consequently, he was "Enormously" charitable with charities for disadvantaged children. But he gets no credit for his charity because he was so quite about it.
Yes, I meant enormously charitable, but gets no credit for it. Not like celebrities today who have they're publicist take a photo of them handing a check to a wounded veteran. Steve gave BIG $$$ to charities for youth but was quite about it.
need to look at what Greg Laurie wrote about him. they made a movie about it just came out.www.harvest.org/.../steve-mcqueen-the-salvation-of-an-american-icon
I had such a crush on him when was a teenager back in the 70's. He was not really conventionally handsome in the sense that someone like Paul Newman or Robert Redford were but there was something so attractive about him. He had a huge stage presence. I feel his best acting was in the movie Papillon. That movie never did reach the popularity of his other movies maybe because he was not in a very glamorous role such as bullet etc but imo his acting in that role was oscar worthy, same goes for Dustin Hoffman in his role in the movie.
Holly Martinson HE WAS WAY MORE HANDSOME THEN ROBERT REDFORD OR PAUL NEWMAN COULD EVER DREAM OF BEING!!!"....... STEVE MCQUEEN WAS ONE OF MY BIGGEST CHILDHOOD CRUSHES THAT I EVER HAD ALONG WITH WILLIAM HOLDEN , JERRY LEWIS ,PETER LAWFORD , BRUCE LEE AND ELVIS PRESLEY MY CRUSHES WHEN I BECAME A WOMAN WERE MEL GIBSON,JEAN CLUADE VAN DAMME, JACKIE CHAN, MICHAEL J. FOX,AND MY FAVIORT AND MY BEST MY SWEET LOVABLE MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!""....I ALWAYS LIKED AND LOVED THE MOST HANDSOME MEN I WAS VERY PICKY AND ALWAYS WILL BE I LOVE ALL THOSE MEN AND ALWAYS WILL THEY ARE ALL EXTREMELY AND IRRESISTIBLY SUPER HANDSOME BUT MY FAVORIT OF THEM ALL WILL ALWAYS BE MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!!!"" I'M A HUGE FAN OF MICHAEL JACKSON AND ALWAYS WILL BE!!!"" I HAVE PHOTOS OF ALL THE MEN I LOVE!!!!"""
Michelle, I thought he was handsome, but not in the pretty boy way. Robert Redford. Just my opinion. I also had a crush on Mel Gibson. And def William Holden, something about him too. I liked Cary Grant. Robert Mitchum. Of course I loved Paul Newman and Robert Redford too, but something about McQueen that surpased them all.
My favorite was The Magnificent 7. I liked so much I saw three showings on a Saturday when you got in as kid for 25 cents. My brother and I left the theater it was night time. We walked the 6 miles home, got a beating from my dad, but it was worth it. Still a big fan of all his movies! I also spent time at Boys town of the west in Chatsworth California. I related to his upbringing.
Mr. McQueen spent some time at Boys Republic in Chino, CA. He never forgot the influence that staying there had on him and he continued going back to inspire the troubled boys to be all that they could be. Happy viewing from Las Vegas, NV 8/29/2018
By far my favorite movie by “ The king of cool 😎 “ is Bullitt . The definite Steve Macqueen in all his glory. In my opinion the precursor to Dirty Harry.
He was also a Boys Republic student. A school for incorigible boys. 😮 Now, the school has an anual car show sponsord by his decendents, all profits are donated to the school.
Other Things about Steve McQueen 1. As an actor he never liked to repeat himself. I have to believe the studio(s) wanted him to do sequels to Bullitt and Thomas Crown Affair but they never happened. The year 1968 may have been his greatest year in the movies with those 2 hits. At 38, he was at his absolute peak in the movies. 2. In *The Hunter* , McQueen played against type: He played a bounty hunter who was a terrible driver, unlike Steve of course in real life. McQueen deliberately had the writers put that in the script. 3. McQueen's friend, Don Gordon, appears alongside him in a number of his movies: Bullitt, Papillon, Towering Inferno.
Interesting trivia. I didn't know who Don Gordon was until I looked him up and immediately recognized him from Wanted: Dead or Alive (A House Divided), among other tv and movie appearances.
I was, and still am, a huge fan. He was the King of Cool. I was just a kid shopping in Boston with my mother when we were told he was around the corner filming The Thomas Crown Affair. My mother knew how excited I was as we left the store and went around the corner, but the filming was done and we missed him! I was very disappointed. BTW At the top of Mason's list was Terry Melcher, the son of Doris Day. He has previously owned that house. He was a record producer and had rejected Manson's music.
He did not jump the motorcycle in The Great Escape, that stunt was performed by a fella named Bud Ekins, he also did some of the car stunt driving and wrecked the motorcycle toward the end of the chase scene in Bullitt, he has a wig on so he looks like a hippie during that stunt, he was buddies with McQueen from racing motorcycles and he owned a Triumph dealership that McQueen bought bikes from, him McQueen and his brother formed a team and raced motorcycles in Europe during the filming of a movie over there and actually took a title that year, they were good racers and not just some Hollywood movie star toy project, McQueen got Ekins into the Hollywood stunt business because they were buddies, last I checked in about 2016 he was still alive and I think he even still had his motorcycle shop, for years McQueen and the studios let everyone think it was him that jumped the motorcycle in that movie but it was actually Bud Ekins.
Fact: Norman Jewison. original choice for the lead for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) was Sean Connery who turned the role down. In later years he regretted that decision.
McQueen was the coolest actor on screen end of, There’s been a lot of pretenders to try and claim his crown but in my opinion, Steve was the real deal and just that cool at acting and everything else.
Skip to 1:25. You won't miss a thing. #4: He also turned down "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" even after Steven Spielberg personally asked him to star in it. #12: McQueen did not change his attitude until he was in the Marine Corp. He was sent there by a judge who gave him a choice of prison or the Marines.. And McQueen chose the Marines. #15: McQueen did NOT do the motorcycle stunt in The Great Escape. It was his stunt double Bud Ekins. And McQueen did not do "all the stunts in his movies".
J S McQueen turned down close encounters because the script called for the character to cry, McQueen said I can't cry on cue so he passed on that movie!
You almost lost me with the computer voice, but really lost me when it talked about McQueen’s military service but put a pic of him and Jackie Gleason from a movie.
He not really a great actor. He was McQueen playing McQueen. Real actors can do comedy drama and stage as well as action. Sadly McQueen was only action. It’s like saying dustin Hoffman can play Frank Bullitt but it wouldn’t work.
@@holdenmcgroin9774 Only action? How about Papillon? As for movie acting, McQueen understood the medium as well as any actor during his period, and that includes Redford. Less is always better. BTW, Hoffman could very well have played Frank Bullitt, not like McQueen, however.
@@jamesanthony5681 His star was fading in the 70s and fading very badly. He lost out to guys who showed off the muscles like Bronson, Eastwood, Sean Connery and a young Harrison Ford and Stallone. Steve McQueen had no muscles to show off. Movie goers were over the moon with movies like Rocky, Jaws, Star wars and Empire Strikes Back so they had a good idea what movies should be like. In the end he made movies that no one wanted to see like the Enemy of the People, Tom Horn and The Hunter which all failed miserably at the box office. So much cool you can play in your mid 40s. You are welcome for that intelligent insight and observation. Hoffman would be miscast as Frank Bullitt, I guess my grandmother could have played Bullitt but not like McQueen.
@@holdenmcgroin9774 Hoffman's a good actor who could have played almost any role. Including Bullitt. Except roles showing muscles. Hoffman had no muscles to show off to the public. Dustin didn't like going to the gym. Steve McQueen had no muscles to show off?? What an idiotic comment! Yes, a young Harrison Ford (he was 34 in 1977) had a lot of muscles. The man was certainly ripped, with muscles just a-bulging. Must have been all that carpentry work. Harrison was a good carpenter. Buddy, McQueen was 50 in 1980, and you don't stay at the top forever. His star was fading? So what! He didn't give a shit. Steve wasn't interested in doing stuff he would have considered crap that Stallone, Bronson, Eastwood and even Ford were doing. Seriously. That was McQueen. And yes, from 1968 to 1974, he was arguably the biggest movie star in the world. One who didn't like to repeat himself by doing Bullitt 8. Or Thomas Crown Affair 10. And yes, McQueen was cool. You wouldn't know cool if you stepped into a meat locker, now would you Holden?
@@jamesanthony5681 classic case of an old man who always wants to be right and needs the last word. Seen it all my life. McQueen was a terrible actor and not much of a race car driver. Again McQueen had no muscles to show. Look carefully at Magnificent Seven , it’s Bronson showing off the tremendous muscles and McQueen kept his shirt on. It takes hard work and dieting for a perfect body. Sean Connery placed third in mr universe.
Some of McQueen's films were actually not very good but have a higher status than perhaps deserved because of McQueen. _The Towering Inferno_ would be one. Also, Steve McQueen actually did not perform the jump over the barbed wire fence in _The Great Escape_ although he did perform in other riding scenes were he was actually not his character. He allegedly has a scene where he is a helmeted, goggle-wearing German motorcycle rider chasing the McQueen character.
Be honest here and some of you people have a hard time admitting it. You can’t play cool into your 40s. His career fizzled real fast in the 70s McQueen made movies that no one wanted to see. The enemy of the people. Tom horn and the bounty hunter so he took up racing. He even tried to learn karate from Bruce Lee but it didn’t help his career. Guys like Eastwood Bronson and a rising Harrison Ford were beating him for roles. Anyone know the common denominator between those 3 guys. They could take off their shirts and display rippling muscles something McQueen could never do. McQueen aged really fast for a guy in his 40s. Sean Connery was also beating out McQueen.
Nice episode. One criticism though, it was pronounced PA pee yohn. The ultimate "I'm gonna be free, even if it's in death" movie. My all time favorite actor, even 40 years after he checked out.
#17 He was a born again Christian a year before he died - thus securing his place in heaven - His daughter is a born again Christian also. They will spend eternity in the presence of Father/Son/HolySpirit
I had a chance to speak to his widow ALI MacGraw briefly lovely woman ! but she declined to say anything for a video bio I wanted to do !! BUT STILL there's always new opportunities stay tuned GOD rest the KING OF COOL!!
his long time stunt double and friend BUD EKINS ! performed that most famous of motorcycle !STUNTS! I'VE done some stage stunts as well so I do appreciate the MOXY to do any of these things he did insist on doing his own stunts and carving his own niche !! that's why he'll always be KING OF COOL!!
Bud Ekins also did most of the stunt driving in Bullitt. Watch the rear view mirror ... if you can't see that it's Steve, then it was Bud at the wheel.
pvtrichter88 Maqueen did attempt the jump but feel, then his buddy Bud pulled it OFF but he DID try n that earns enough respect in my book RIP Maqueen u will always be the King of COOL
I love Steve but his friend Bud Ekins did the motorcycle stunts in 'The Great Escape" and other movies not Steve, not that Steve couldn't have done the stunts himself but the movie insurance company would not allow it
From wife sue Gregg: I loved Great Escape and Steve in it. Who cares if he didn’t perform the great jump! The best thing he ever did was to receive and believe in Jesus, our Messiah. Now that was not play acting, that was REAL!!
He was also a born again Christian, Billy Graham prayed with him before his last trip to Mexico for treatment. He was found with his bible on his chest.
The thing about Steve McQueen was when he played a character or role, his character didn't always come out as a hero or with redemptive qualities. Examples, Buzz Rickson in the War Lover and John Reese in Hell Is For Heros. Two of my favorite movies.
The piece implies that McQueen did the jump in THE GREAT ESCAPE. He didn't! The producers thought it too dangerous and Bud Eakins, his longtime friend and motorcycle shop owner did it in his place. He and Bud (and I) lived in Nichols Canyon. Steve used to race his Cobra up the canyon to his home on Astral Dr. (Solar maybe). Legend has it that people complained about his fast driving so they stationed a cop car half way up the canyon to catch and ticket him but his skill as a race car driver was no match for the cops and he was home and in his garage long before any cop showed up.
Towering Inferno, Great Escape are my favorites. Most of the facts you mention i knew about except you didn't mention the controversy about his famous motorcycle jump in Great Escape.
I like all of McQueens movies he was masterful my favorite though was LeMans followed by Bullet as his passion was racing and that showed in those two movies.
He didn't do every stunt ( for example, he only drove c.10% of the famous Bullitt chase scene himself. And of course a stuntman did the famous jump at the end of the Great Escape. He was famously tight with money on movies. He had a business of leasing props to movie studios, and always tried to get his own props used in the movies he was in to get more money.
McQueen and Jim Morrison were unbelievably cool dudes........THE HUNTER was my favorite , cause parts in that movie showed the real life Steve McQueen. I also think the movie was his idea , I recall , he chose to make that movie , plus the real Ralph Thorsen had a couple minutes in the movie as the bar tender. Also the movie is like a time machine , in that it takes you back to 1980 and has the last year of GM's muscle car in it , the 1979 Pontiac Trans Am.
Way back in 1965 when I was in the US Navy I read a novel titled "The Sand Pebbles". A few years later the book was made into a movie and Steve McQueen stared in it as a Machinist Mate aboard a river gunboat in China. I had served as an Electricians Mate and spent many hours in the engine room. I also spent some time on shore duty in the Philippines so the movie rang true to me and to this day it brings back memories of my years as a sailor. Much like Steve I lived a different life back then but again like Steve I had a life change when I came to know Jesus as my savior. Steve McQueen is not only my fictional hero but he is my real life hero for his witness of a changed life through Jesus. I never met him but some day in heaven I know I will. Here's a Bio on Steve's life and death:. www.patheos.com/blogs/youngfogey/2012/12/greater-grace-a-story-of-god-redemption-and-steve-mcqueen/ Here's a tribute video and song that goes along with it called “Old Soldier.”: ua-cam.com/video/OHBUzU3pfeU/v-deo.html
used to be a cool place. used to be able to go plinking targets. take a little hike and visit a nice little waterfall after a good rain. now, over populated like every other place in Cal.
Great video..very interesting; but you have the date wrong for the Manson murders, it happened on August 9, 1969, not August 9, 1968 that you mentioned.
that was mentioned in there maybe her Pronunciation threw you off !! the Sand pebbles earned STEVE his Oscar nod TCA was another classic that was well rebooted in 99' I THINK with Pierce Brosnan and RENE RUSSO !! ENJOY !
John William's comment is "right on." I find myself wondering why there's no mention at all of what turned out to be the singularly most important and climactic event in his life to Steve McQueen himself! Oversight?...or something else?
If you are a TRUE Steve McQueen fan, you need to check out Sheryl Crow's song entitled, "Steve McQueen." It's right here on UA-cam. Trust me, you're gonna like it. And if you're a Dale Jr. (#8) fan, today is REALLY your lucky day! (all you need is a FAST machine...)
He didn’t perform all his own stunts in his films. “McQueen was an avid motorcycle and race car enthusiast. When he had the opportunity to drive in a movie, he performed many of his own stunts, including some of the car chases in Bullitt and the motorcycle chase in The Great Escape. Although the jump over the fence in The Great Escape was done by Bud Ekins for insurance purposes.” Source: Wikipedia
You left out his biggest accomplishment. He accepted the Christ Jesus as his Lord and Savior several years before his passing. I was a life guard at the Disneyland Hotel in the late '60s. McQueen would bring in boys from his old reform school as a summer treat for 'em. Very nice guy. Amazingly. People left him alone during his stays. Anyway. died way too soon. He had alot more to give.
16. He accepted Jesus Christ and was transformed in the last year of his Life. Meet Billy Graham and died with Bill Graham;s own Bible on his chest with verse John 3:16 opened.
Steve Terence "Steve" McQueen...The Greatest Of All Time-Actor! Past,Present and i think future...A unattainable human being...movies and life. Enjoy every second of film he played
My favorite movie ever of Steve McQueen is all of them, he was & always will be until I'm gone from this world the best actor & my favorite actor there ever was, I loved him so much. R.I.P. SLEEP WITH THE ANGELS. all my love Dee❤❤❤❤❤❤🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️😘😘😘😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍😦😦❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️
They didn't have any photos of him when he was a Marine. The pictures they used were from movies he was in later. Did you really think Gleason was in the Army with him? No. That was "Soldier in the Rain" 1963. McQueen was in the Marines in the late 40's
Those photos were from the movie "Soldier In The Rain" with Jackie Gleason; No, you are not missing anything, they just didn't have photos from his Marine Corp days.
He was Redford before Redford was Redford. Also "Love With the Proper Stranger" with Natalie Wood; "Soldier In The Rain" with Jackie Gleason; "Baby The Rain Must Fall," with Lee Remick: "Nevada Smith," with Brian Keith and Karl Malden: "The Getaway" with Ali McGraw--his off-screen affair and subsequent marriage to McGraw was given as the cause of him not being nominated as Best Actor for Papillon, for which he should not only have been nominated but should have won, when compared to Jack Lemmon's mediocre winning performance in Save The Tiger. Papillon was one of his best performances and, oddly enough, it wasn't a romantic leading role. He was depicted as "stealing" McGraw away from her husband, Paramount studio head Robert Evans. It was a mutual attraction. Nobody forced her to divorce Evans. The onboard camera mountings on the race cars in Le Mans, which he insisted on for realism were way ahead of their time. It has become a cult classic and is revered as the most authentic racing movie ever made.
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He received a Navy medal for rescuing seaman
When I was a kid I always wanted to be James Dean, but now that I'm older I would rather be Steve McQueen
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I actually, briefly, knew Steve, He lived in Santa Paula, Ca and occasionally hung around my my Fathers gas station with Von Dutch who lived right across the street in an old school bud. Steve was by nature a very quite person. He had a very unhappy childhood and could not fathom why he of all people on the planet Earth was chosen to be a highly paid movie actor. Consequently, he was "Enormously" charitable with charities for disadvantaged children. But he gets no credit for his charity because he was so quite about it.
Good info!
Yes, I meant enormously charitable, but gets no credit for it. Not like celebrities today who have they're publicist take a photo of them handing a check to a wounded veteran. Steve gave BIG $$$ to charities for youth but was quite about it.
Rob Abreu His one regret was not getting a chance to share what Jesus Christ had done for him
need to look at what Greg Laurie wrote about him. they made a movie about it just came out.www.harvest.org/.../steve-mcqueen-the-salvation-of-an-american-icon
Rob Abreu God knows ,and that’s what counts.
Steve and Bruce Lee were more than just martial arts friends; McQueen was actually Lee's student in Jeet Kune Do.
I not only like to repeat myself, I also like to say the same thing twice.
He was indeed good friends with Bruce Lee , and helped James Dean with his motorcycle! cant get much better than that!!!!!
So also was Jame Coburn,
A student of Lee's. AND Kareem Abdul Jabbar all 7'2" of him they were all friends.
I had such a crush on him when was a teenager back in the 70's. He was not really conventionally handsome in the sense that someone like Paul Newman or Robert Redford were but there was something so attractive about him. He had a huge stage presence. I feel his best acting was in the movie Papillon. That movie never did reach the popularity of his other movies maybe because he was not in a very glamorous role such as bullet etc but imo his acting in that role was oscar worthy, same goes for Dustin Hoffman in his role in the movie.
Holly Martinson HE WAS WAY MORE HANDSOME THEN ROBERT REDFORD OR PAUL NEWMAN COULD EVER DREAM OF BEING!!!"....... STEVE MCQUEEN WAS ONE OF MY BIGGEST CHILDHOOD CRUSHES THAT I EVER HAD ALONG WITH WILLIAM HOLDEN , JERRY LEWIS ,PETER LAWFORD , BRUCE LEE AND ELVIS PRESLEY MY CRUSHES WHEN I BECAME A WOMAN WERE MEL GIBSON,JEAN CLUADE VAN DAMME, JACKIE CHAN, MICHAEL J. FOX,AND MY FAVIORT AND MY BEST MY SWEET LOVABLE MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!""....I ALWAYS LIKED AND LOVED THE MOST HANDSOME MEN I WAS VERY PICKY AND ALWAYS WILL BE I LOVE ALL THOSE MEN AND ALWAYS WILL THEY ARE ALL EXTREMELY AND IRRESISTIBLY SUPER HANDSOME BUT MY FAVORIT OF THEM ALL WILL ALWAYS BE MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!!!"" I'M A HUGE FAN OF MICHAEL JACKSON AND ALWAYS WILL BE!!!"" I HAVE PHOTOS OF ALL THE MEN I LOVE!!!!"""
Michelle, I thought he was handsome, but not in the pretty boy way. Robert Redford. Just my opinion. I also had a crush on Mel Gibson. And def William Holden, something about him too. I liked Cary Grant. Robert Mitchum. Of course I loved Paul Newman and Robert Redford too, but something about McQueen that surpased them all.
Just like his son, Chad McQueen who played Dutch in Karate Kid. Also has some manner as his dad.
My favorite was The Magnificent 7. I liked so much I saw three showings on a Saturday when you got in as kid for 25 cents. My brother and I left the theater it was night time. We walked the 6 miles home, got a beating from my dad, but it was worth it. Still a big fan of all his movies! I also spent time at Boys town of the west in Chatsworth California. I related to his upbringing.
Steve McQueen is the baddest and the coolest actor I've ever seen. R.I.P. Steve, you are greatly missed.
no he is not. he was abusive behind the doors. why would anyone adulate over this garbage?
Favorite McQueen movie: Bullitt
Jake Holman - The Sand Pebbles
"The Getaway" (1972)
41 days in the Brig and 37 speeding tickets… Got a love Steve McQueen
Mr. McQueen spent some time at Boys Republic in Chino, CA. He never forgot the influence that staying there had on him and he continued going back to inspire the troubled boys to be all that they could be. Happy viewing from Las Vegas, NV 8/29/2018
For me it has to be The Great Escape ---I had lunch with Steve McQueen at the Triumph motorcycle factory in 1965
Some of the coolest motorcycle photos are him on Triumphs!!
Very cool! I was curious if you remember what he ate? He’s my favorite actor of all. @spotonmartin
Gifted person in this world.
That's great!!!!
There wasn't a Steve McQueen movie I didn't like, I like them all, I just wish he had made more, and hadn't died so soon.
By far my favorite movie by “ The king of cool 😎 “ is Bullitt . The definite Steve Macqueen in all his glory. In my opinion the precursor to Dirty Harry.
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He was also a Boys Republic student. A school for incorigible boys. 😮 Now, the school has an anual car show sponsord by his decendents, all profits are donated to the school.
Other Things about Steve McQueen
1. As an actor he never liked to repeat himself. I have to believe the studio(s) wanted him to do sequels to Bullitt and Thomas Crown Affair but they never happened. The year 1968 may have been his greatest year in the movies with those 2 hits. At 38, he was at his absolute peak in the movies.
2. In *The Hunter* , McQueen played against type: He played a bounty hunter who was a terrible driver, unlike Steve of course in real life. McQueen deliberately had the writers put that in the script.
3. McQueen's friend, Don Gordon, appears alongside him in a number of his movies: Bullitt, Papillon, Towering Inferno.
Interesting trivia. I didn't know who Don Gordon was until I looked him up and immediately recognized him from Wanted: Dead or Alive (A House Divided), among other tv and movie appearances.
He's a bad ass not like the girly actors of our days
It's impossible to don't love him !!!! His movies are AMAZING, I love them all
He also stared in wanted dead or alive that is a great western tv series before any of those films mentioned.
I just started watching WDOA; I'd never seen it before. It's a really good show and SM is great as Josh Randall.
1) The Sand Pebbles 2) Papillon 3) The Great Escape. ALL of McQueen's movies are "GREAT"
I was, and still am, a huge fan. He was the King of Cool. I was just a kid shopping in Boston with my mother when we were told he was around the corner filming The Thomas Crown Affair. My mother knew how excited I was as we left the store and went around the corner, but the filming was done and we missed him! I was very disappointed. BTW At the top of Mason's list was Terry Melcher, the son of Doris Day. He has previously owned that house. He was a record producer and had rejected Manson's music.
He did not jump the motorcycle in The Great Escape, that stunt was performed by a fella named Bud Ekins, he also did some of the car stunt driving and wrecked the motorcycle toward the end of the chase scene in Bullitt, he has a wig on so he looks like a hippie during that stunt, he was buddies with McQueen from racing motorcycles and he owned a Triumph dealership that McQueen bought bikes from, him McQueen and his brother formed a team and raced motorcycles in Europe during the filming of a movie over there and actually took a title that year, they were good racers and not just some Hollywood movie star toy project, McQueen got Ekins into the Hollywood stunt business because they were buddies, last I checked in about 2016 he was still alive and I think he even still had his motorcycle shop, for years McQueen and the studios let everyone think it was him that jumped the motorcycle in that movie but it was actually Bud Ekins.
One of my favorites of his was, “Love with the Proper Stranger.” He co-starred with Natalie Wood in that.
Great film!
Yes it was lovely I watched it recently for the umpteenth time.. Sweet film ❤️
Fact: Norman Jewison. original choice for the lead for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) was Sean Connery who turned the role down. In later years he regretted that decision.
Interesting.
Bullitt is the best. It's the car chase that started the car chases in all other movies.
Fair statement. It was filmed very early in the morning in San Francisco when there'd be fewer cars and traffic in the streets.
McQueen was the coolest actor on screen end of, There’s been a lot of pretenders to try and claim his crown but in my opinion, Steve was the real deal and just that cool at acting and everything else.
They were all my favorite.. He was fabulous and still has the same appeal... One of a kind. ❤️🥰
i can also be really neat for a few hours. Do not think these people are so great, fallacy
Tom Horn. One of his last films and it so fit Steve.
Skip to 1:25. You won't miss a thing. #4: He also turned down "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" even after Steven Spielberg personally asked him to star in it. #12: McQueen did not change his attitude until he was in the Marine Corp. He was sent there by a judge who gave him a choice of prison or the Marines.. And McQueen chose the Marines. #15: McQueen did NOT do the motorcycle stunt in The Great Escape. It was his stunt double Bud Ekins. And McQueen did not do "all the stunts in his movies".
J S McQueen turned down close encounters because the script called for the character to cry, McQueen said I can't cry on cue so he passed on that movie!
It's a good thing Richard Dreyfuss took over that role!
J S Exactly
Exactly right. Yes Bud Ekins was my grandmothers first cousin. He adored Steve
My favorite Steve McQueen movie now and always is "The Getaway" with Ali McGraw
My favorite Steve McQueen movie is "Le Mans".
" THE HUNTER" His last & one of his best Movies that I loved etc May he RIP also loved him in " THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN " Also.
Only true petrol heads love that movie
In his brief scenes with dialogue he says the most about the character he plays than any of his other films.
I have to say my favorite Maqueen Movie was The GETAWAY
Omg yas
The Sand Pebbles. My favorite Steve McQueen movie.
Yes very good.
MY FAVORITE MCQUEEN MOVIE WAZ BUBKUS
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Good Movie, Bad Ending. Cause I Hate When the Good Guy Get Killed.
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Why didn't she mention The getaway? I thought that was a great movie.
My personal favorite.
billy graham gave him his personal bible 4 days before he died.. now they are both in heaven 4 21 18
Graham was an anti-Semite.
Heaven is for Heroes.
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@Bb You're Ungodly
Graham was a schiester. Con man. Entertainer of the sheep. Anything for the all mighty buck .
I’m surprised he turned down the driver. That fits him perfectly.
He was too old by that time.
Bruce Lee and Steve were very close for sure. There were a few actors who knew and understood Bruce Lee personally.
You almost lost me with the computer voice, but really lost me when it talked about McQueen’s military service but put a pic of him and Jackie Gleason from a movie.
That film with Jackie Gleason and Tuesday Weld was Soldier in the Rain, a quite underrated film.
Wow, glad to know all these things about Steve. He truly was a great actor who left us too soon. Rest w/God Steve
He not really a great actor. He was McQueen playing McQueen. Real actors can do comedy drama and stage as well as action. Sadly McQueen was only action. It’s like saying dustin Hoffman can play Frank Bullitt but it wouldn’t work.
@@holdenmcgroin9774 Only action? How about Papillon? As for movie acting, McQueen understood the medium as well as any actor during his period, and that includes Redford. Less is always better.
BTW, Hoffman could very well have played Frank Bullitt, not like McQueen, however.
@@jamesanthony5681 His star was fading in the 70s and fading very badly. He lost out to guys who showed off the muscles like Bronson, Eastwood, Sean Connery and a young Harrison Ford and Stallone. Steve McQueen had no muscles to show off. Movie goers were over the moon with movies like Rocky, Jaws, Star wars and Empire Strikes Back so they had a good idea what movies should be like. In the end he made movies that no one wanted to see like the Enemy of the People, Tom Horn and The Hunter which all failed miserably at the box office. So much cool you can play in your mid 40s. You are welcome for that intelligent insight and observation. Hoffman would be miscast as Frank Bullitt, I guess my grandmother could have played Bullitt but not like McQueen.
@@holdenmcgroin9774 Hoffman's a good actor who could have played almost any role. Including Bullitt. Except roles showing muscles. Hoffman had no muscles to show off to the public. Dustin didn't like going to the gym.
Steve McQueen had no muscles to show off?? What an idiotic comment! Yes, a young Harrison Ford (he was 34 in 1977) had a lot of muscles. The man was certainly ripped, with muscles just a-bulging. Must have been all that carpentry work. Harrison was a good carpenter.
Buddy, McQueen was 50 in 1980, and you don't stay at the top forever. His star was fading? So what! He didn't give a shit. Steve wasn't interested in doing stuff he would have considered crap that Stallone, Bronson, Eastwood and even Ford were doing. Seriously. That was McQueen. And yes, from 1968 to 1974, he was arguably the biggest movie star in the world. One who didn't like to repeat himself by doing Bullitt 8. Or Thomas Crown Affair 10.
And yes, McQueen was cool. You wouldn't know cool if you stepped into a meat locker, now would you Holden?
@@jamesanthony5681 classic case of an old man who always wants to be right and needs the last word. Seen it all my life. McQueen was a terrible actor and not much of a race car driver. Again McQueen had no muscles to show. Look carefully at Magnificent Seven , it’s Bronson showing off the tremendous muscles and McQueen kept his shirt on. It takes hard work and dieting for a perfect body. Sean Connery placed third in mr universe.
It’s funny how they’re talking about him joking the marines but both pictures have him in army fatigues
Steve McQueen was a great dilm star and remembered for many tears to come.
Pappilon was a great film. I met McQueen and he was a down to earth man. We lost him to soon. I was glad to kniw he accepted Jesus Christ.
Give it a rest.
Bullitt is a great movie. It inspired me to restore a '68 Mustang and drive it to high school.
Cool.
But, the San Francisco Police HATE IT when you drive like he did on their city streets.
Some of McQueen's films were actually not very good but have a higher status than perhaps deserved because of McQueen. _The Towering Inferno_ would be one. Also, Steve McQueen actually did not perform the jump over the barbed wire fence in _The Great Escape_ although he did perform in other riding scenes were he was actually not his character. He allegedly has a scene where he is a helmeted, goggle-wearing German motorcycle rider chasing the McQueen character.
Wanted Dead or Alive as Josh Randle
Be honest here and some of you people have a hard time admitting it. You can’t play cool into your 40s. His career fizzled real fast in the 70s McQueen made movies that no one wanted to see. The enemy of the people. Tom horn and the bounty hunter so he took up racing. He even tried to learn karate from Bruce Lee but it didn’t help his career. Guys like Eastwood Bronson and a rising Harrison Ford were beating him for roles. Anyone know the common denominator between those 3 guys. They could take off their shirts and display rippling muscles something McQueen could never do. McQueen aged really fast for a guy in his 40s. Sean Connery was also beating out McQueen.
Nice episode. One criticism though, it was pronounced PA pee yohn. The ultimate "I'm gonna be free, even if it's in death" movie.
My all time favorite actor, even 40 years after he checked out.
#17 He was a born again Christian a year before he died - thus securing his place in heaven - His daughter is a born again Christian also. They will spend eternity in the presence of Father/Son/HolySpirit
I had a chance to speak to his widow ALI MacGraw briefly lovely woman ! but she declined to say anything for a video bio I wanted to do !! BUT STILL there's always new opportunities stay tuned GOD rest the KING OF COOL!!
Fuck off!
No one gives a shit.
And u still believe in god?
If Steve McQueen lives his young age he would be next James bond
Pappillion one of my favorites he made.
McQueen didn't actually do the jump in the great escape.
his long time stunt double and friend BUD EKINS ! performed that most famous of motorcycle !STUNTS! I'VE done some stage stunts as well so I do appreciate the MOXY to do any of these things he did insist on doing his own stunts and carving his own niche !! that's why he'll always be KING OF COOL!!
Bud Ekins also did most of the stunt driving in Bullitt. Watch the rear view mirror ... if you can't see that it's Steve, then it was Bud at the wheel.
pvtrichter88 Maqueen did attempt the jump but feel, then his buddy Bud pulled it OFF but he DID try n that earns enough respect in my book RIP Maqueen u will always be the King of COOL
I love Steve but his friend Bud Ekins did the motorcycle stunts in 'The Great Escape" and other movies not Steve, not that Steve couldn't have done the stunts himself but the movie insurance company would not allow it
From wife sue Gregg: I loved Great Escape and Steve in it. Who cares if he didn’t perform the great jump! The best thing he ever did was to receive and believe in Jesus, our Messiah. Now that was not play acting, that was REAL!!
He was also a born again Christian, Billy Graham prayed with him before his last trip to Mexico for treatment. He was found with his bible on his chest.
The thing about Steve McQueen was when he played a character or role, his character didn't always come out as a hero or with redemptive qualities. Examples, Buzz Rickson in the War Lover and John Reese in Hell Is For Heros. Two of my favorite movies.
The piece implies that McQueen did the jump in THE GREAT ESCAPE. He didn't! The producers thought it too dangerous and Bud Eakins, his longtime friend and motorcycle shop owner did it in his place. He and Bud (and I) lived in Nichols Canyon. Steve used to race his Cobra up the canyon to his home on Astral Dr. (Solar maybe). Legend has it that people complained about his fast driving so they stationed a cop car half way up the canyon to catch and ticket him but his skill as a race car driver was no match for the cops and he was home and in his garage long before any cop showed up.
You mean the cops' skill was no match for his.
My favorite McQueen movie; The Great Escape.
My favorite Steve McQueen film is nullity. I mean, b u l l I t y and Nevada smith.
Towering Inferno, Great Escape are my favorites. Most of the facts you mention i knew about except you didn't mention the controversy about his famous motorcycle jump in Great Escape.
I like all of McQueens movies he was masterful my favorite though was LeMans followed by Bullet as his passion was racing and that showed in those two movies.
He didn't do every stunt ( for example, he only drove c.10% of the famous Bullitt chase scene himself. And of course a stuntman did the famous jump at the end of the Great Escape. He was famously tight with money on movies. He had a business of leasing props to movie studios, and always tried to get his own props used in the movies he was in to get more money.
McQueen and Jim Morrison were unbelievably cool dudes........THE HUNTER was my favorite , cause parts in that movie showed the real life Steve McQueen. I also think the movie was his idea , I recall , he chose to make that movie , plus the real Ralph Thorsen had a couple minutes in the movie as the bar tender. Also the movie is like a time machine , in that it takes you back to 1980 and has the last year of GM's muscle car in it , the 1979 Pontiac Trans Am.
He wasn't called McCool..for nothing. She forgot to mention, Pappion, which he, in my opinion, been up for a Oscar, as best actor.
Way back in 1965 when I was in the US Navy I read a novel titled "The Sand Pebbles".
A few years later the book was made into a movie and Steve McQueen stared in it as a
Machinist Mate aboard a river gunboat in China. I had served as an Electricians Mate and spent many hours in the engine room. I also spent some time on shore duty in the Philippines
so the movie rang true to me and to this day it brings back memories of my years as a sailor.
Much like Steve I lived a different life back then but again like Steve I had a life change when I came to know Jesus as my savior. Steve McQueen is not only my fictional hero but he is my real life hero for his witness of a changed life through Jesus. I never met him but some day in heaven I know I will.
Here's a Bio on Steve's life and death:.
www.patheos.com/blogs/youngfogey/2012/12/greater-grace-a-story-of-god-redemption-and-steve-mcqueen/
Here's a tribute video and song that goes along with it called “Old Soldier.”:
ua-cam.com/video/OHBUzU3pfeU/v-deo.html
They forgot all about his role in Wanted Dead or Alive, he played a hero role of a bounty hunter,
#Love the King of Cool!!
Watching reruns of it now.
Steve raced under the name Harvey Mushman in Lake Elsinore, Ca. the yearly race is now called Harvey Mushman Elsinore Grand Prix.
used to be a cool place. used to be able to go plinking targets. take a little hike and visit a nice little waterfall after a good rain. now, over populated like every other place in Cal.
that is so cool.
I met him at elsinore that year excellent rider
Favourite "Steven McQueen movie- "The Blob"-favourite Steve McQueen movie- "The Great Escape"
Para mi la mejor interpretación de Stveven McQueen
Papillon 1973
Great video..very interesting; but you have the date wrong for the Manson murders, it happened on August 9, 1969, not August 9, 1968 that you mentioned.
The best film you didn't mention ....Papillion ....That's Oscar winning best movie motion starring . Dustin Hoffman still alive one the best actor
that was mentioned in there maybe her Pronunciation threw you off !! the Sand pebbles earned STEVE his Oscar nod TCA was another classic that was well rebooted in 99' I THINK with Pierce Brosnan and RENE RUSSO !! ENJOY !
As a 25 year old boy i admired Steve mcqueen. He's an ok role model.
He was also a devout Christian...
John William's comment is "right on." I find myself wondering why there's no mention at all of what turned out to be the singularly most important and climactic event in his life to Steve McQueen himself! Oversight?...or something else?
10:20 That is not McQueen performing his own stunt. That's Bud Eikens.
If anyone has not watched the movie: "The Sand Pebbles." Please do make a point of doing so.
It's a great movie. Steve should have won the Oscar that year.
Yes. With the great Candice Bergen in a starring role.
He would have been great in Butch Cassidy..However, the actors in that movie was very good. One if my favorites.
Steve was one of my favourite Hollywood acter, especially in the movie Papillon for his superb acting. 👍🏻👌
If you are a TRUE Steve McQueen fan, you need to check out Sheryl Crow's song entitled, "Steve McQueen." It's right here on UA-cam. Trust me, you're gonna like it.
And if you're a Dale Jr. (#8) fan, today is REALLY your lucky day!
(all you need is a FAST machine...)
My favorite McQueen movie, all of them.
Nevada Smith....saw it 20 times....awesome movie....Max!
The greatest forever
My favorites are PAPILLION & The GREAT ESCAPE
He didn’t perform all his own stunts in his films.
“McQueen was an avid motorcycle and race car enthusiast. When he had the opportunity to drive in a movie, he performed many of his own stunts, including some of the car chases in Bullitt and the motorcycle chase in The Great Escape. Although the jump over the fence in The Great Escape was done by Bud Ekins for insurance purposes.”
Source: Wikipedia
Favorite film #1 Magnificent 7, #2 Bullitt, #3 Nevada Smith #4 Pappillion #5 The Getaway
I love Nevada Smith
You're yella...you haven't got the guts. You're yella...you haven't got the guts.
Terry Myers TOM HORN ---- THE HUNTER, PAPPY THORNTON
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Steve McQueen, King of Cool.
You left out his biggest accomplishment. He accepted the Christ Jesus as his Lord and Savior several years before his passing. I was a life guard at the Disneyland Hotel in the late '60s. McQueen would bring in boys from his old reform school as a summer treat for 'em. Very nice guy. Amazingly. People left him alone during his stays. Anyway. died way too soon. He had alot more to give.
How about the movie Never So Few
It's not surprising it Steve McQueen and James Dean got together they are both hoosier boys in Hollywood.
16. He accepted Jesus Christ and was transformed in the last year of his Life. Meet Billy Graham and died with Bill Graham;s own Bible on his chest with verse John 3:16 opened.
Jd Pillsbury he accepted CHRIST before he knew he was sick
sounds gay
Jesus hates gays
@@WhiteboyBeardman God and Jesus loves every human being. Maybe...exept idiots, sorry for that...All
Steve Terence "Steve" McQueen...The Greatest Of All Time-Actor! Past,Present and i think future...A unattainable human being...movies and life. Enjoy every second of film he played
Steve McQueen is the King of Cool. James Dean IS Cool.
The guy is fascinating to me.
My favorite film of all time and that of McQueen is the great escape
My favorite movie ever of Steve McQueen is all of them, he was & always will be until I'm gone from this world the best actor & my favorite actor there ever was, I loved him so much. R.I.P. SLEEP WITH THE ANGELS. all my love Dee❤❤❤❤❤❤🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️😘😘😘😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍😦😦❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️
Also donated alot of money to Chino Men's Prison. Was an alumni.....
How come they say he was a Marine when all his uniform pictures say Army on them? Am I missing something?
They didn't have any photos of him when he was a Marine. The pictures they used were from movies he was in later. Did you really think Gleason was in the Army with him? No. That was "Soldier in the Rain" 1963. McQueen was in the Marines in the late 40's
Those photos were from the movie "Soldier In The Rain" with Jackie Gleason; No, you are not missing anything, they just didn't have photos from his Marine Corp days.
McQueen did not do the jump over the barb wire fence in the Great Escape!
i didn't know he was an actor for a while. thought he was just a pro racer.
My fav great escape
He was Redford before Redford was Redford. Also "Love With the Proper Stranger" with Natalie Wood; "Soldier In The Rain" with Jackie Gleason; "Baby The Rain Must Fall," with Lee Remick: "Nevada Smith," with Brian Keith and Karl Malden: "The Getaway" with Ali McGraw--his off-screen affair and subsequent marriage to McGraw was given as the cause of him not being nominated as Best Actor for Papillon, for which he should not only have been nominated but should have won, when compared to Jack Lemmon's mediocre winning performance in Save The Tiger. Papillon was one of his best performances and, oddly enough, it wasn't a romantic leading role. He was depicted as "stealing" McGraw away from her husband, Paramount studio head Robert Evans. It was a mutual attraction. Nobody forced her to divorce Evans. The onboard camera mountings on the race cars in Le Mans, which he insisted on for realism were way ahead of their time. It has become a cult classic and is revered as the most authentic racing movie ever made.
thanks. now you explained where those Army photos came from, even though he was in the Marines.
I miss him. he was awesome.
j'adore Steve ! depuis toujours ! merci :-)