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Steve McQueen
Life Time
24 March 1930 - 7 November 1980
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Terence Steven McQueen. Steve (Terence Stephen) McQueen was born on March 24, 1930 in Beach Grove, Indiana, USA. He studied at Carnegie University of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), from where he was expelled for riding a motorcycle through the hallways of the educational building. Served in the Marine Corps. In 1952, Steve McQueen was accepted into the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, where he played alongside Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. In 1955 in the prestigious Acting Studio
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Terence Steven McQueen. Steve (Terence Stephen) McQueen was born on March 24, 1930 in Beach Grove, Indiana, USA. He studied at Carnegie University of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), from where he was expelled for riding a motorcycle through the hallways of the educational building. Served in the Marine Corps. In 1952, Steve McQueen was accepted into the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, where he played alongside Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. In 1955 in the prestigious Acting Studio Lee Strasberg of two thousand applicants were accepted by two, one of the lucky - Steve McQueen. The stage breakthrough for the actor was the Broadway production of “Prince of Rain”, in which he replaced Ben Gazzara. In 1956, he made his film debut in a cameo role in the film Someone Upstairs Loves Me, and two years later he followed the lead role in the film The Blob. In 1958, McQueen got a leading role in the television series Wanted Dead or Alive, which ran for several years and thanks to which the actor became famous. Although he had a role in the cult film "The Magnificent Seven", success in the big movie came to McQueen after the adventure film "The Big Escape" - by the way, in this film all the stunts on motorcycles the actor performed himself. Among the most striking films in which Steve McQueen skillfully played the roles of ironic, sometimes cynical "anti-heroes", one can name the adventurous films known to the audience "The Thomas Crown Hustle" (1968), "Bullit", a criminal action movie.
"Escape", catastrophe film "Hell in Heaven", adventure film "Hunter", western "The Kid from Cincinnati". Steve McQueen died of lung cancer on November 7, 1980 in Mexico, and his ashes were scattered on the Pacific Ocean.