Steve McQueen

1930-1980

Biography: life and films

Steve McQueen was an American actor whose birth name was Terence Steven McQueen. He was born in Beech Grove, Indiana, USA on 24th March 1930 and died in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico on 7th November 1980, aged 50.

His best films as an actor include John Sturges's The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), Norman Jewison's The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Peter Yates's crime-thriller Bullitt (1968) and Franklin J. Schaffner's Papillon (1973), and whose best work as a film director include Hunger (2008), Shame (2011) and 12 Years a Slave (2013).

Steve McQueen appeared in 29 films, directed 3 films and scripted 2 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: John Sturges (3 films), Sam Peckinpah (2), Robert Mulligan (2) and Norman Jewison (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (20 films), War (5), Thriller (5), comedy-drama (4), Western (4), romance (3), crime-thriller (3), Biography (3) and history (2).

Our average rating for Steve McQueen over all films is: 3.4

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer

Girl on the Run (1953) [a]

Never Love a Stranger (1958) [a]

The Blob (1958) [a]

Never So Few (1959) [a]

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) [a]

The Magnificent Seven (1960) [a]

The Honeymoon Machine (1961) [a]

Hell Is for Heroes (1962) [a]

The War Lover (1962) [a]

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) [a]

Soldier in the Rain (1963) [a]

The Great Escape (1963) [a]

Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) [a]

The Cincinnati Kid (1965) [a]

Nevada Smith (1966) [a]

The Sand Pebbles (1966) [a]

Bullitt (1968) [a]

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) [a]

The Reivers (1969) [a]

Le Mans (1971) [a]

On Any Sunday (1971) [a]

Junior Bonner (1972) [a]

The Getaway (1972) [a]

Papillon (1973) [a]

The Towering Inferno (1974) [a]

Dixie Dynamite (1976) [a]

An Enemy of the People (1978) [a]

The Hunter (1980) [a]

Tom Horn (1980) [a]

Hunger (2008) [d,w]

Shame (2011) [d,w]

12 Years a Slave (2013) [d]



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