Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen (Steve McQueen, March 24, 1930-November 7, 1980) was born on March 24, 1930 in Indiana-IN , the United States , Hollywood Action Films star, racing (car, locomotive) dual-material winner, after Passed away due to lung cancer .
The famous Hollywood tough guy movie star in the 1960s and 1970s was on par with big stars such as Dustin Hoffman . Most of the roles played are relatively marginal "heroes", who have an important position in the American film scene.
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He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Oscars ' Best Actor for many times . The " papillon " produced in 1973 was hailed as "the greatest The Escapist movie in film history".
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Early Experience
Steve McQueen's father was a high-altitude stunt pilot and a big alcoholic, who abandoned his mother and son when he was only six months old. And his mother Julia also fostered Steve in the home of his grandparents Victor and Lillian State of Missouri when he was 4 years old . Then the United States fell into the Great Depression, and grandparents had to take Steve to the farm of Lillian's brother Claude (ie, uncle Steve) to find a livelihood.
When McQueen was 8 years old, his mother came back to look for him after remarrying, and the family of three moved back to Indiana-IN . McQueen recalled that when he left the farm, his uncle gave him a pocket watch with the inscription: "For Steve who is like a son to me." Because McQueen was quite stubborn at the time, his mother finally sent him back to his uncle's farm.
When McQueen was 12 years old, his mother , who had remarried to the State of California Los Angeles , retrieved McQueen again. He later went to the correctional facility , then joined the army and retired as a United States Marine Corps . At McQueen he had searched for his father when he was an adult, but he only found his father's widowrelict; French -his father had died three months before that.
McQueen once said that if he hadn't become an actor, he would probably be reduced to a street gangster. His unsuccessful childhood left a huge shadow on him
. In 1972, he was imprisoned for drunk driving and left a famous photo. In the last year of his life, he also made two films with the pain of cancer, and he did not give up fighting his fate until he died. McQueen’s success on the screen has also affected future generations. His grandson Steven Chadwick McQueen once played the role of the heroine Elena ( Nina Constantinova Dobreva ) in "The Vampire Diaries" and his younger brother Jeremy Gill. Burt.
Steve McQueen is known as the number one tough guy in the history of Hollywood movies in the United States! Steve McQueen may be the first person in the Hollywood movie to perfectly combine the heroic image of the courageous forward with the unruly angry youth. When he first debuted, his arrogant and rebellious temperament reminded of the prodigal son James Dean . He likes speed racing is not bad at all, but he plays a tough guy on the screen, even Paul Newman is hard to compare.
Steve McQueen has a fatal attraction to both male and female fans. His perfect image is not only the object of women's sex, but also the object of American men's boasting. Not only that, Steve McQueen is also a selfish conqueror of sex. He often mediates among a bunch of actresses with the incarnation of free sex, and some people even pointed out that Steve McQueen's attitude towards sex is too wild and always needs an audience to be around. However, Steve McQueen did not die due to venereal diseases. In 1980, McQueen died of cancer in Juarez , Mexico , at the age of 50.
Performing Experience
In 1958, the TV series "Living and Death Wanted" hit the air, and Steve McQueen, who was ridiculed as "orangutan face", first attracted attention. Since then, he has been invited to play roles in director John Sturges ' Western and war films.
The 1963 " The Great Escape " is a film depicting Allied prisoners of war during World War II. In the film, Steve McQueen played the only American soldier in a prisoner of war camp. He got a motorcycle on the way to escape and tried to escape the Nazis and crossed Switzerland. national boundaries. After many shocks, this tough guy still failed, but his motorcycle chase became a classic in the end.
In 1968, Steve McQueen played a sturdy policeman in the film " Bullitt ", driving a 1968 Mustang Fastback easily drifting in San Francisco. Later, the film was repeatedly shown in Ford.
In 1973 Steve McQueen shot the movie " papillon ", "papillon" means "butterfly" in French. The story of this film is adapted from the memoirs of the French prisoner Papillon. Steve McQueen plays the male lead is a chest butterfly sting Mother Sea Mother Qinghai 's murderer , his nickname "papillon" that way. The film was hailed as "the greatest The Escapist movie in film history ", and McQueen's heroic image became an indelible classic.
Personal Life
In Trancas Beach, north of Malibu, State of California , there are some beautiful houses on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. In this four-story waterfront building, there was once a residence belonging to McQueen. After success, he once enjoyed leisure time on the beach.
McQueen likes fast things and antiques, including airplanes. In the late 1970s, he advertised for a garage dealer in jeans, a lumberjack shirt, and a coach driver's cap. One day, he found a light yellow PT Stearman biplane used by the Navy in the 1940s. He immediately recognized it as a star product that had been advertised in the "Aircraft Merchant" magazine. He bought the plane for 35,000 U.S. dollars and then considered where he could learn to fly it.
