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28 unusual facts about Steve McQueen


1970 12 Hours of Sebring

And running in 5th place was a Solar Productions/Gulf sponsored #48 Porsche 908/02 of movie star and racer Steve McQueen (whose leg was in a cast) and Peter Revson, who was battling with the #33 works Alfa Romeo T33/3 of Toine Hezemans/Masten Gregory.

Anna Fairclough

Fairclough was elected to each of these offices by defeating an incumbent in the election; her Assembly victory was over incumbent Ted Carlson, better known as the Anchorage police officer who arrested actor Steve McQueen in 1972.

Barbara Minty

Barbara Minty, also known as Barbara Minty McQueen, is a former fashion model who is also the former third wife and now widow of American film star Steve McQueen.

Barry Feinstein

He subsequently became a sought-after photographer in Hollywood, where he worked with Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Jayne Mansfield, and Steve McQueen.

BSA Hornet

Actor Steve McQueen tested the BSA Hornet and described it as "a keen bike - but I found it awfully heavy".

Don Elliott

Elliott lent his vocal talents to such motion picture soundtracks as The Getaway starring Steve McQueen, $ (Dollars) starring Warren Beatty, The Hot Rock starring Robert Redford and The Happy Hooker starring Lynn Redgrave.

Doyle Dykes

Dykes is an avid collector of old Western movies, including the films of John Wayne, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Steve McQueen.

Dress to Kill

He is particularly fond of Steve McQueen's role in the film, and goes to great lengths to explain how inaccurate his escape through Central Europe actually is ("within fifteen minutes he's on the borders of Switzerland. This is from Poland! And if you don't know the geography, it goes Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Venezuela, Africa, Bali, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and then Switzerland.").

Empire Ranch

Around the same time, the ranch was featured in several Western films starring many actors, such as John Wayne, Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen.

Favez

On their first three albums (prior to 1997) they were called Favez Disciples, after a figure from the movie Le Mans with Steve McQueen.

Fred Krone

He worked in the early days of Steve McQueen’s career and doubled for McQueen in 1960/61 on the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive, among others.

John Dominis

He often pictured stars like Steve McQueen or Frank Sinatra, and these photo series were later published as illustrated books.

Legend of the Motorcycle

On average, 6,000 visitors attend the event, including motorcycle luminaries such as Peter Fonda, the son of Steve McQueen, Chad McQueen, Ewan McGregor, and the famed stuntman and racer, Bud Ekins.

Love with the Proper Stranger

The film tells the story of Angie Rossini (Natalie Wood), a salesclerk at Macy's department store who finds herself pregnant after a brief affair with musician Rocky Papasano (Steve McQueen).

Midnight Plus One

The film rights to Midnight Plus One were purchased by American actor Steve McQueen, who had planned to adapt it to the cinema before his untimely death.

Mr. Horn

This version came out just prior to the 1980 feature film Tom Horn, which starred Steve McQueen.

Neile Adams

Neile was first married (1956–1972) to actor Steve McQueen. Adams' influence with agents helped McQueen establish his own career.

Norton Dominator

Norton abandoned the Domiracer project a year later when the Bracebridge Street race shop closed and the Domiracer and factory spares were sold to Paul Dunstall, who continued with development and began producing Norton performance parts, eventually selling complete Norton Dunstall bikes to customers including Steve McQueen.

Pitcairn Aircraft Company

A Pitcairn PA-8 Super Mailwing formerly owned by Steve McQueen is currently in private hands with The Woodlands Toy Store of Pennsylvania, having been fully restored in silver and green, but it has flown in a number of airshows in the Northeast, including at Geneseo, New York.

Siata

The car rose to prominence after actor and race car driver Steve McQueen purchased model BS523 from Los Angeles based Siata importer Ernie McCaffe in the mid-1950s.

Slater, Missouri

Steve McQueen - Iconic actor of the 1960s and 70s who resided with great uncle Claude Thomson on Thomson Lane for a short time during his childhood.

Soldier in the Rain

Soldier in the Rain is a 1963 American comedy-drama film starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen.

Star Star

The song gained notoriety not only for explicit lyrics alluding to sex acts involving fruit (among other things) but also for controversial mentions of such celebrities as John Wayne and Steve McQueen.

Teddy Pilette

This experience created the opportunity for him to be part of the cast for John Frankenheimer's movie Grand Prix, and later on Le Mans with Steve McQueen.

The Honeymoon Machine

The Honeymoon Machine is a 1961 film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney, and Dean Jagger, based on the 1959 Broadway play The Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple Jr..

The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss

Even though Lazenby never got that label in the US or UK from the press, in reality it was true as he had tremendous box office success in Europe, Asia, and Australia (he actually outgrossed Steve McQueen in that time as just one example.

Vivacious Lady

In the early 1960s Steve McQueen announced that he wanted to appear in a remake but this did not eventuate.

Żagań

This episode of history was the subject of the 1963 film The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen.


Corbis

GreenLight also represents rightsholders directly, including the personality rights of Bruce Lee; Johnny Cash and June Carter; the Andy Warhol Foundation; Steve McQueen; Mae West; the Wright brothers; and Albert Einstein.

Darwin Porter

He has written biographies of the Gabor sisters: Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda, Merv Griffin, Michael Jackson, Steve McQueen, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Howard Hughes, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (with Roy Moseley), Linda Lovelace and J. Edgar Hoover, all, apart from Jackson and Zsa Zsa Gabor, after their deaths.

Johnson Motors Inc. Clothing

Although the company was the number one dealer of Triumph Motorcycles in California, an active supporter of California Motor Racing during the early to mid twentieth century, and collaborated with such stars as Marlon Brando, James Dean, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen, it has only become well known in recent years due to its vintage clothing.

Leigh Christian

She maintains close friendships with many of the actors she has worked with including Sondra Currie, wife of producer/director Alan J. Levi; and Barbara Leigh, now Assistant Photo Editor at Playboy Studio West, and former girlfriend of Elvis Presley and Jim Aubrey as well as longtime girlfriend of Steve McQueen.

Liam McMahon

He won critical acclaim for his role in the 2008 film Hunger, which was directed by Steve McQueen and written by Enda Walsh.

Minerva, New York

His book about his experiences was published in 1853, adapted in 1984 as a PBS TV movie directed by Gordon Parks and again in 2013 as a feature-length film directed by Steve McQueen starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.

See-Saw Films

In March 2011 See-Saw completed principal photography on Shame, starring Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender, and directed by British filmmaker/artist Steve McQueen, which will be distributed by Momentum in the UK, and Fox Searchlight in the US.