Biography
Terens Stephen McQueen is the legend of Hollywood cinema. He was brought to the glory of images of ironic and cynical heroes, invariably struggling with injustice. Most often, his role was the "steep" lonely wolves that admired the audience. Among the many popular paintings McQueen are highlighted Western "Magnificent Seed", a fighter "Big Escape", Detective "Scam Thomas Krauna" and a thriller "Hunter". In addition, Stephen was known as the auto and motorcycle roller. And it should be noted that in sports and on the set, he was distinguished as a very disciplined person, which, unfortunately, cannot be said about the real biography of Steve McQueen.
He was born in the 1930th year in the tiny town of Beach Grove, the suburb of the capital of Indiana. His father William McQueen was a pilot, but not military, but he spoke with aerobatic tricks at festivals and fairs. The man threw the family when his son had not yet been and six months. Whether because of this, or for a different reason, the mother of the actor, Julian, began to abuse alcohol and the right to raise the kid were handed over to Grandma and Grandfather. Steve was brought up on a farm in Missouri and loved the cousin of Claude very much.
The boy's mother returned to the age of eight years, but that period was one of the worst in the biographies of Steve McQueen. In school, he was diagnosed with Dyslexia, because of the ear infection, Steve partially lost his rumor, but most importantly - he could not find a common language with his mother and her new husband. The boy began to run out of the house and came out several times in small thefts. Conflict on Steve McQueen and with other stepfishes, which he has changed a lot. As a result, the teenager adjoins the street gang and enters the police pencil.
Further education assumed a correctional school for teenagers in Tea Hills. Gradually, Stephen McQueen began to change his attitude to life and, released from there at the age of 16, no longer had problems with the law, although before the end of the life remained a balamut and a disturbing amateur to have fun. Interestingly, the actor subsequently came to this correctional establishment repeatedly to show pupils that everything in their hands. At the end of study, the young man became a sailor and committed several flights to the Dominican Republic, and in 1947 he was signed up in the army. He was distributed to the crucible of the marines, and Steve McQueen distinguished himself as a hero: during the exercises in the Arctic, he saved from the death of his colleagues, which pressed the ice.
After demobilization in the biography of Steve McCuin, studies are added to the engineering faculty at the University of Carnegie Melon, which he paid at the expense of the means earned in the army. But here the Bunarian character of the guy took up, and once, after he rode on a motorcycle along the corridors of the educational building, he was expelled. Then Steve decided to learn acting at the Senford Maisner School, and in parallel to participate in the motorcycle racing, which suddenly bring young people sufficiently generous prizes. Later, McQueen graduated from one of the best acting schools in the world - Studio Lee Strasberg. Moreover, according to eyewitnesses, from more than two thousand applicants for the course received only two: Steve and another future legend of cinema - Martin Landau.
Films
In the mid-50s, the actor and Racer Steve McQueen debuts on a television screen immediately in several projects, the most famous of which is the sports drama "Someone there will love me upstairs." The first noticeable work of Steve becomes the series in the style of Western "Wanted: Live or Dead." The picture was on television for five years, and it was in her McQueen first noticed Frank Sinatra, who invited actor to the role of Sergeant Ring in a military picture "So little Never", and then director John Sturges, who involved him in the western fabulous popularity " Magnificent seed. "
Steve McQueen's films usually treated the genres of a fighter, western or criminal drama. He invariably appeared in front of the audience in the image of a steep guy, which easily punishes cruel and unfair negative characters. It is worth noting the military tape "Lover of War", the fighter "Big Escape", Western "Young Bonner", film-catastrophe "Hell in the Sidebie".
There were actors and romantic comedies, for example, Cincinnati Kid and "Love with a suitable stranger." But a special place in the filmography of Steve McQuein is occupied by Triller "Bullit", for which he was nominated for the Oscar Award, the dismantive criminal belt "Scam Thomas Krauna", which began the beginning of the direction of films about the crime, and the sports drama " Mans "- the only attempt to rider Steve McQueen Show your driving skill on the screen.
The latest works of McQueen became a biographical thriller about a private detective "Hunter" and Western "Tom Horn". It is worth adding that with Stephen, despite his difficult character, dreamed of cooperating actually all the stellar directions. Stephen Spielberg even wrote specifically for him the script of the science fiction film "Close contacts of the third degree". But the actor was forced to refuse due to the need to show tears in the frame, and for him it was taboo.
Personal life
In the personal life of Steve McKain there were three wives and the countless number of love intrigues. He was married for the first time in 1956 on the actress Neil Adams, who gave him the daughter of Terry Leslie and the Son Chad. One of the grandchildren, Stephen R. McQueen, today is a very famous actor starring in the series "Vampire Diaries."
Steve and Neil lived together for about 16 years, after which Steve McQueen officially left his wife to his partner on the film "Escape" Eli McGroow. This woman remained the main love of Stephen even after their divorce in 1978. Less than a year before his death, McQueen married the third and last time. His chosen was the American fashion model Barbara Minti, who later will write a book about her husband.
In addition to wives in the personal life of Steve McKain there were several dozen star novels with actresses and fashion models, popular in the 60-70 years. Thanks to one of the dates, the actor even retained his life. He was invited to a secular party, but decided to "stroll" it for the sake of meeting with the beauty. And just that day the armed gang of Charles Manson burst into the party to kill Stephen, whom they brought to their "black celebrities".
The actor was always interested in sports, and not only races. He mastered the eastern martial arts, closely was friends with Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee. At the funeral of the last McQueen carried his coffin. Interestingly, Stephen, despite the magnificent fees, was considered a rather naked man. From the leadership of each new picture, in addition to an excellent salary, it demanded for himself upgrades: costumes, electric razors, perfumery. In fact, all this "wealth" man sent "Boys Republic" to the correctional school, in which he once studied.
Death
In about 1978, Stephen McQueen noticed that his health worsen. Being an avid smokers, he refuses cigarettes, but as it turned out - too late. In 1980 he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in the pleural region. The actor fought until the latter. When ordinary medicine could no longer do anything, he went to Mexico and was treated with the help of coffee mud. However, they did not bring any relief. In the autumn of the same year, he was made to remove metastases in the throat, but the next day, on November 7, 1980, the actor died at the age of 50.The body of Terens Stephen McQueen was cremated, and the ashes at his order dispelled over the Pacific Ocean. In memory of the legend of Hollywood, many films were shot, for example, "I - Steve McQueen", "Man at the limit", "Steve McQueen: Man and Racer." And the singer Cheryl Crowe dedicated him a song that entered her plate "C`mon C`mon".
Filmography
- 1958-1961 - Wanted: Live or Dead
- 1960 - Magnificent Seven
- 1962 - War Lover
- 1963 - Big Escape
- 1963 - Love with a suitable stranger
- 1963 - Soldier in the rain
- 1965 - Cincinnati Kid
- 1968 - Scam Thomas Krauna
- 1972 - Young Bonner
- 1980 - Hunter