Hollywood Mysteries #40 - Steve McQueen, The King of Cool

[@HollywoodMysteries]

With so many to choose from, which of Steve McQueen's performances do you think was the most iconic? Let us know in a comment!

[@maryeliason1504]

@@HollywoodMysteries THE THOMAS CROWNE AFFAIR

[@kaybowkett7931]

@@HollywoodMysteries The Sand Pebbles. Still love it today. ☺️👵🏻🇦🇺

[@aidankilmartin2521]

The Sand Pepples was immense , brilliant film ,also liked the Cincinnati Kid a lot

[@haroldwright4100]

@maryeliason1504 Without the “E” unless you’re British!!!❤️😮🤑

[@johnw8984]

@@HollywoodMysteries his best performance was in the Sand Pebbles I think it came out in 1966 he actually had to act on that one as opposed to b u l l i t where it was pretty cut and dry the other one he had to act unlike himself in a lot of scenes great performance I think McQueen got nominated for best actor in 1967. I know a lot about that time because I was actually alive then

[@ltkreg]

I knew Steve, he lived in Santa Paula, Ca and sometimes hung out at my fathers gas station with Von Dutch. The real Steve wasn't the King of Cool, in reality he was very reserved, a real wall flower. At one time he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. A virtually unkown fact was how enormously generous he was, especially with disadvantaged children. Lots of books have been written about him and they talk about how generous he was, but I assure you he gave away far more than they know about. Steve got no credit for his generousity because he was so quite and never spoke about it.

[@AndyAnderson-b9u]

Von Dutch and Steve McQueen? Your father must have been uber kool to attract those 2 icons. Snaps to you father.

[@ltkreg]

@@AndyAnderson-b9u No, not at all. A very ordinary hard working Joe trying to provide for his family. Our no name gas station/convenience mart was on the edge of town and the last gas/food stop until you got to Fillmore about 10 miles down the road. It also happened to be accross the street from a custom car shop where Dutch worked and lived. If you Google it I bet you can still find the old school bus Dutch lived in parked in the parking lot of the shop. Dutch walked across the street all the time to buy sandwhiches and beer and watch the world go buy. Steve lived on the other side of town near the air port. He and Dutch and were friends so Steve wound up hanging out there with Dutch. They enjoyed just standing there talking and watching the world go by. I was just the kid who worked the cash register. Steve had largely left Hollywood at that time. He'd put on some weight, had a big bushy beard and dressed like a laborer. After people gassed up and walked in the station on they're way to the restroom they'd bump into who they thought were two bumbs blocking they're way haveing no idea who they really were.

[@CarolShook-yg9nn]

He always seemed more shy to me like in love with the proper stranger

[@ltkreg]

@@CarolShook-yg9nn Not familiar with that movie myself. But I can tell you the real Steve was very reserved. When I knew him he'd put on some weight, had a big bushy beard and dressed like a laborer. Customers at the station had no clue who he was, I think he liked that. Even the cops and CHP, who frequented there throughout the day, did not recognize him, until I told them. Then they did everything but get on they're knees and kiss his feet. That "King of Cool" persona, what I call quite charisma, you saw in his movies, that wasn't the real Steve. He worked for it. I think it was Dutch who told me about a scene in a movie where all he did was walk around the back of a car, get in and drive away, maybe 10 seconds. Before the scene he parked his car in front of a store with big windows that he could see his reflection in. Then all he did for two hours was walk around the car, get in and drive off. He did that over, and over, and over ... all the time watching his reflection in windows. What he was doing is practicing the simple act of getting in a car and driving off so that it looked 'Cool'.

[@ltkreg]

@@AndyAnderson-b9u My father was a hopelessly ordinary middle class fellow working hard to provide for his family, who owned a no name gas station/conveniences mart on the edge of a rural town that by chance was accross the street from the classic car shop Dutch worked in. Bo Derek and Jackie Gleason used to come in quite a bit too, but just to buy gas and use the bathrooms. 😊

[@iloveislandlifekeywest]

Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood….they don’t make em like that anymore….

[@rhiannonrede]

@@iloveislandlifekeywest absolutely

[@thomashumphrey48]

@@iloveislandlifekeywest Harrison Ford,Keven Costner,Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood Are Not Chopped Liver!

[@theodoreyoung7946]

Yessiree!!

[@theriddlerUSA]

Amen!

[@charmingjinx9379]

Well, let's hope they DON'T make them like Steve McQueen anymore because his was a life of abuse due to his irresponsible mother and incompetent family. What a horrible childhood that guy had! I'd rather men were boring and cared for, than abused risk-takers.

[@EmilyTurnage]

I'm an older black lady, but I always thought he was gorgeous. Beautiful man. Just a little confused. I was bombed when he died.

[@titusho2]

@EmilyTurnage my favorite actor 🎭. I knew he was a special actor, like Burt Lancaster was also. I, too, was sadden by his passing. I knew that he was one of a kind. He was dynamite, full of energy, a generous man, and loved children.. Love Steve McQueen 💜👍🩵🧡

[@lbjordan5082]

Whether you liked him or not, whether you thought he was a good actor or handsome he had that certain something than was true star power which so many actors now lack.

[@friedaticer3156]

I really liked all his movies,The Sand Pebbles,Love With A Proper Stranger Papillon,The Cincinnati Kid,The Great Escape and The Thomas Crown Affair. He left the world way too early .R.I.P.🥀

[@dukecraig2402]

The Sand Pebbles and Papillion are my two favorite movies of his, Bullitt is good but it's the car chase that makes it what it is, his acting in it is relatively flat because that's how the character Frank Bullitt is written, in The Sand Pebbles and Papillion his characters have serious arcs and go through quite a bit which gave him much more acting to do in order to pull off the characters.

[@SusanVega-m6q]

@@friedaticer3156 I love him! My favorite movie is The Towering Inferno, especially the scene where he is waiting for the water tank to explode, looking up at the ceiling, knowing that this could be his last moment. Truly a powerful moment.

[@GreenHeet]

Wasn't he the one who played in The Blob? He didn't have "the look" yet 😊

[@jonp3890]

LeMans!

[@Cyberrat629]

Bullitt and The Getaway were my favorites of his but I watch many of his movies year after year.

[@KatieReadsKoziesAndMore]

McQueen was/is my favorite actor. John Lennon is my favorite musician. The two of them died one month apart. It was a sad time for this young teenager.

[@HedvaGloriaEdelblum]

Amazing how one person can do so much for a child. Uncle Claude was indeed a good man.

[@catherineberry6971]

Glad abortions were hard to get. We may never have known this great man.

[@TWayneD1020]

Love Steve !!! Watch him almost every day in the Western, Wanted Dead Or Alive . ❤❤❤!!

[@kathleendinsmore7588]

Steve McQueen with Faye Dunaway in “Thomas Crown Affair” is a great film! 🎥

[@craighansen7594]

The Great Escape, for number one!

[@RenataCantore]

Thank you for your Exquisitely detailed presentation about The Magnificent Steve Mc Queen. I am heartbroken to hear what a horriffic childhood He had, but alas, all of that Hell sculpted Him i to one of The Greatest Actors that ever lived. May God bless & rest His Precious Soul . ❤❤❤❤🎉😢😢 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆

[@ruthdevisser2526]

He would be 94 ,this year .WOW It’s been a long time and yet we remember him like yesterday.

[@nancymcclain2533]

The kiss in the Thomas Crown Affair has always been my favorite kiss scene and my instruction manual. Perfect.

[@shesaknitter]

I love it when he says, "Let's play something else."

[@brendathompson2288]

Thank God that there's a real person narrating this.

[@Bliss0426]

@@brendathompson2288 It makes all the difference. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to record it.

[@rebeccagrrrl2699]

Just unfortunate the audio has a lot of background noise…

[@FC-PeakVersatility]

@@rebeccagrrrl2699 🤷 it kinda fits with the old b&w content

[@CarolStJohn-ev9ry]

He was a good actor and I enjoyed many of his movies back in the day. I remember the hoopla in all the tabloids when he first hooked up with Ali McGraw.

[@friedaticer3156]

@@CarolStJohn-ev9ry and remember when he was photographed with Lucy Johnson at Whiskey-A GoGo,I think they were doing the Swim or the Twist!! What a thrill that must have been for her💃🏼🕺.Im 80 years old so I think I’m correct ⁉️

[@sheilagravely5621]

@@CarolStJohn-ev9ry they were a beautiful couple. 👍👍♥️

[@bipolarbear9917]

Ah, ‘The Getaway’ where life imitated drama. The original movie with Steve and Ali was so much better than the remake with Alec and Kim. 🎥

[@DaveH649]

Great insight into Steve McQueen's career, some of the early films are out of sequence but otherwise excellent, I can't understand why anyone would comment against or watch if they don't like his films, he was a complex character, but his best films are terrific.

[@greggthomas-c3c]

Steve McQueen was a damn good actor

[@nealrepetti2396]

My dad took me to see BULLET in 1972 . I feel in love with the man and cars. I devoted the rest of my life to mechanics. I've seen every movie the man made, good or bad . For years I had two posters on my wall . Bullet and one of Steve making a jump on a motorcycle. I'm 66 now and with the internet now I can pull up almost any of his movies. I will love him till the day I die. Thanks for this special.

[@dukecraig2402]

I know which motorcycle poster you're talking about, it's a black and white picture, it was pretty famous back in the day and I had a friend back in the 70's and early 80's who had it on his bedroom wall, after he got older and married he had it framed and hung it on the wall in his basement because his wife wouldn't let him put it up in their living room.

[@staceymichaels9530]

Sweet!

[@txkflier]

Steve has always been one of my favorite actors. Perhaps he's why my first car was a 1968 Ford Mustang.

[@carolbaughan8768]

His Mom should have left him at his Uncle's.😢

[@catherineberry6971]

He took advantage of every opportunity available and because of that became that unique man he was. It was the contrast of good men and bad men in his life that molded him.

[@tknudcarter]

I showed the Bullitt car chase scene to a girl who'd never heard of McQueen but was an avid Fast and Furious fan. She was blown away. She said, "It was the best car chase scene ever...because it's real." Thought Steve McQueen was a total heart throb.

[@chrisbgifford7387]

One of my favorite actors

[@strummercash5601]

Young Steve thinking “I must not be very good” is heartbreaking. Makes me happy to hear how much uncle Claude loved him. The red wagon, the inscribed pocket watch he gifted Steve-especially-choked me up a bit. Two good men, with empathy and integrity, it seems Steve learned much of the loyalty and desire to help people he showed with his returns to Boys Republic and fellow racers was born on the farm under the guidance of his uncle.

[@ElviaAlcantar-l8f]

A very handsome and good actor.A good nature man.The way he was raised and abandoned,he did good,others become good for nothing!.❤🎉

[@Rune789]

He and his wife lived up the street from us when I was a teenager in the late ‘60’s. His wife had a sign that read “Please drive slow as children and animals and other things we love are at play”.

[@tarasodulak6901]

Fastest car in the chase scene was the green VW….its seen about 8 times and always ahead of the Mustang and Charger! But one of the best chase scenes in movie history!

[@mariecisneros7314]

Great documentary! McQueen always one of my favorite actors. Absolutely the king of cool in my book! Truly one of a kind.

[@geraldfordman7474]

Truly, he was a Real Man's Man. I grew up with his movies and love them all. RIP. His epitaph ought to include 'Self Reliant', that's who I am.

[@JustJosieyall]

loved this, you did the king of cool justice

[@marilynfoster1233]

He a had a lot of charisma. Seems he rose above a bad upbringing.

[@designsonyouinparis]

I was never a fan- I was too young- later on, my son and his grandson went to school together. What a talented and sweet boy. His father was a professional ice hockey star- nicest family and often donated Ranger tickets to our school. Very grateful as that was the only time my son and I were able to attend the games. His grandson’s interest were in the visual and dramatic arts. Wonderful family and wish them all well!🙏🏻🩷🐾🇺🇸

[@GilturnerknocksoutphonyFloyd]

If people still read books all this stuff she’s saying has been written about for years. Marshall Terrill wrote the definitive bio of Steve I was one of many young guys who rode motorcycles with Steve in the desert and in LA. He was a great guy. Loved to ride and very generous. I’m old and broken now but I have great memories

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

When we were children in the 1970s many of us had parents who rode motorcyles in the desert, along with driving 4-wheeled drive trucks, baja Bugs, and Manx dune buggys. My grandmother gave the best dune buggy rides: she would putt-putt away from camp and then floor it.😊

[@cynthiaopsahl3422]

Yes, I was one of those kids! Glamis and Pismo- 75cc bikes and buggies all day and night. Crazy drunk dads letting us run wild 🤪

[@StaceyMichaels]

GOD Bless You

[@curtgomes]

"The Sand Pebbles" was, for me, a great production with many good actors. Contrary to what is said here the movie depicts the US Navy gun boat diplomacy on the Yangtze River in China in the 1920s. The characters, the sailors, and their interaction with the Chinese was well done. It reminded me of a few of the old sailors I had seen that had gone "asiatic". I saw the movie in 1966 and it was a eye opening look into a lost piece of history. Until now, I didn't realize how many hurdles the production faced at that time.

[@Helm-w1q]

@@curtgomes Great movie, great cast. Extremely well acted. And it followed the book to a tee. Still I have always been torn between Papillon which he did an Oscar winning performance. Or The Great Escape. And not so much for the motorcycle jump , but for the display of the audacity, that runs through American military. It's what has won our wars , And Steve McQueen could show that, I think he had a bit of it himself.

[@curtgomes]

@@Helm-w1q I just sent a copy of 'The Sandpebbles' to my 35 year old daughter and her husband. He is becoming interested in WWII history, never taught in public school. It's like an epiphany. I'm hoping sometime in the future they watch this excellent movie and expand their knowledge of history a little further......

[@sheryldalton8965]

The Sabd Pebbles & Baby the Rain Must Fall were my favorites. I was just a little girl when "wanted dead or alive" was on tv. It was my favorite show.

[@shesaknitter]

I remember watching "Wanted: Dead or Alive" as a little girl. I am of the generation where we all watched the same shows with only 3 channels/networks. Always easy to find someone with whom I can reminisce. Excellent video!

[@LJones-n8c]

Steve McQueen was my favorite actor, followed by a few others. It was a tragedy to lose him so young. "The Sand Pebbles " did NOT take place in WWII. It took place during the Boxer Rebellion in China, 1900-1901, when Chinese influencers tried to remove all foreigners from China and all foreign influences. Great movie. I loved "Love with the Proper Stranger". Natalie did well in the film too. "The Thomas Crown Affair" is probably my favorite movie. I love the characters, actors, and interactions. They complemented each other. I also love the way it was filmed - - split film. "Bullet" is an outstanding movie. I thought Steve was sensational in it. "The Great Escape" and "The Towering Inferno" were two outstanding movies also. The ego clashes did not show up in the film. Steve was truly the "King of Cool". It broke my heart to hear about his early childhood and all the abuse he suffered and the rejections by his parents. I am glad that he was able to rise above that. 👏🏻😍👍🏻💖

[@DougSpende-eb2fz]

Great actor, a guy's guy! Semper fi Marine RIP that you for all the great movies a and tv shows you have done. He's the greatest good guy ever!

[@stephanielaguerre1509]

Steve mac Queen when i saw him in first time in french tv au nom de la loi it was a good serie at year end 70's and early 80's and saw him in another movies.he was a great actor and beauty man.

[@gennywhitaker6531]

I admired Steve McQueen and I thought he was so handsome. I remember being broken hearted when he passed away. My father also passed away at age 50, from lung cancer. I love Steve's movies. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@richardbrowning8221]

Steve McQueen never took credit for his 60 foot jump in the great escape he told Johnny Carson that Bud Ekins did it. The reality is ur not going to risk tens of millions of dollars for a film and have your leading man get killed in the middle of production! Look what happened to James Dean 5 days after finishing Giant! This is why Warner Brothers forbid Dean to race his Porsche during the shoot!

[@sunny1433]

I wonder if Steve ever went back to see his Uncle that gave him that red bicycle when he turned 4.

[@davidlord7364]

Great perennial actor, always great to see him, God rest him

[@briardan9226]

I never knew any of this about McQueen!! He's even more interesting now.

[@janw9594]

Sharon Tate shared the home with her husband Roman Polanski, not her friend Jay Sebring

[@mt.shasta6097]

@janw9594 Thank you. People today don't remember the very real lives of those victims. Sharon Tate was a lovely woman in love with her husband. Jay Sebring was her kind, supportive ex. He was a good man.

[@Linda-pw8gx]

@@mt.shasta6097 very true, he died trying to save her💜

[@dukecraig2402]

And this story is nonsense, over time everyone in Hollywood tried to make the Tate murders about them by claiming they were invited to a party there that night, but none of them went all because of some twist of fate or some lucky little thing that prevented then from going and Steve McQueen was no exception, even the guy who starred in the TV show Mr Ed later tried claiming he was invited to "the party" there that night, but like everyone else because of some last minute complication didn't go and narrowly missed being "another Manson Family victim". The fact is there was no party there that night, it was hot and a very pregnant and miserable Sharon Tate didn't want a house full of people showing up, Sharon's own sister talked to her on the phone that night and has said that Sharon told her she was hot, miserable and just wanted to get to bed early and get a full night's sleep, which is exactly where she was at, in her bedroom, when the murderers entered the house early that night, proof in itself there was no party, she was in her bedroom, for someone having a party that was kind of early to be in bed, aside from Jay Sebring, who was a close personal friend with Sharon and Roman, and reportedly had only stopped by to talk with Sharon about something everyone who was there that night were all people who'd been staying there, there was no party, and everyone throughout the years who claimed to have been invited there that evening and narrowly escaped being another one of the victims are nothing more than just another person who jumped on the bandwagon story about a party being there that night they were invited to because they didn't want to be left out of the biggest story to hit Hollywood since the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. Even the claim that the murder victims had gone to the El Coyote restaurant to eat earlier that evening, something which was even portrayed in Quinten Tarantino's movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, is thought to be a fabrication made up by the owners of the restaurant in order to make it famous, the day after the murders the owner or manager of the restaurant called the police and said that they'd been there earlier in the evening the night before which wasn't an outrageous claim since they'd been known to go to the place because of it's relative close proximity to the house, two detectives showed up and interviewed a waitress and the manager who claimed they'd been there, but the problem is they eventually talked to people who'd been in there that night that said they don't remember Tate and a party of 4 or 5other people sitting where they supposedly had been, as if you could miss a pregnant Sharon Tate the size of a house along with 4 or 5 other people being with her, there's no receipt from them being there despite all the other receipts from people eating there being accounted for, which is how the police came up with a list of people to talk to, no credit card proof, nothing besides a waitress and the manager saying they were there one of which I believe down the road changed their story and said they don't remember them being there. The absolute best source for what happened that night and the entire story as a whole is from a documentary called Six Degrees Of Helter Skelter, it was made by a guy named Scott Micheals who had a Hollywood tour business called Dearly Departed Tours, it's since closed down, I believe it was coronavirus that did it in, but he maintains a KZbin channel with the same name. Scott has been fascinated by the Tate/LaBianca murders for years and had probably done more research and interviewed more people connected with it than anyone, he was actually hired by Quinten Tarantino as a technical advisor on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood to advise him on parts pertaining to the murders, I don't think Six Degrees Of Helter Skelter is on his channel but I know I've seen it put up by someone several years ago, although he may have forced them to take it down by now, I stumbled across it about 15 years ago on DVD in the bargain bin at Walmart and probably have watched it 20 to 30 times since it's so good, give it a watch if you're interested in knowing the real story about what happened that night on Cielo Drive that changed Hollywood forever and made movie stars and everyone else start locking their doors.

[@CarolShook-yg9nn]

@janw9594 I thought that was the house they were referring to. It's the good thing something made his girlfriend change her mind. It wasn't their time 🙏

[@nwicconsultants6640]

@@dukecraig2402 Nice summary! I am a long time fan of Scott and been subscribed to his channel for some time now. Was going to point out some of the facts you mentioned but saw you had already done so and in a much better well worded way than I could have. Good to see that Scott work has been affective in educating the public on what actually happened on that night in 1969. lol...I have to laugh now when another celebrity's name is mentioned in regards to being invited to this alleged party! 😁 Evidently half of Hollywood was supposed to be there. PS: Scott is back from Alaska as you probably know....let the dearly departed stories begin!

[@scottmandu8316]

Guaranteed if Steve was there that fateful night, no way those crazed killers would have touched Sharon. 😮

[@nozzledrich]

Thats what I was thinking brother, a MANS MAN was Steve McQ for sure. I'd like to think he'd have jumped in with both feet and maybe given the others a chance to live. He did most of his own stunts so you know he was a tough guy and up to a life or death challenge.

[@scottmandu8316]

@@nozzledrich Steve would've pulled a Cliff Booth

[@nozzledrich]

@@scottmandu8316 SOB,,,,! YOU MAGNIFICENT, EFFING GENIUS, POST OF THE NEXT GD MILIENIUM!!

[@VincentConti-m5j]

@@scottmandu8316 seriously 😯he was as an actor 😊movies are not real life 😯😯

[@markbonner1139]

​@@VincentConti-m5j Look what he did in The Corp to get onto Trumans Honor Guard!! Sharon WOULD STILL BE ALIVE!!

[@jamesolson807]

I watched Wanted Dead Or Alive as a kid. His cool was evident then. When I saw Magnificent Seven, I witnessed him crust Yule Brenner in the cool department. I was a lifelong fan and when he died in 1980, I cried.

[@Yournamehere-jo6rw]

@@jamesolson807 Wanted:Dead or Alive still playing on Pluto. I watch it all the time

[@tsclly2377]

I've seem another production on Steve, but this is by far the best I've seem and gets in to detail that shows how Steve may have not had favor in the Hollywood scene, perhaps a major contributing factor to his demise. I've seen this even in my family structure.

[@Esse-vp1bc]

Saw 'Papillon' last night, the 'Sand Pebbles' a few weeks ago. Saw both before, read 'Papillon' years before. McQueen & Hoffman should have won Oscars, McQueen with Hoffman as Best Supporting. It is one of the greatest films ever made. "Sand Pebbles' is also one of. the greats, very like "River Kwai'.

[@caroldvorak3397]

Two of my all time favorite movies are Great Escape and Magnificent 7. I also loved McQueen in Love With the Proper Stranger. He and Natalie Wood were a cute couple.

[@JL-qe5gl]

The Sand Pebbles was not about WW2, but about a Navy Gunboat in China in 1926.

[@kkay3784]

Gotta do the research before posting!

[@carolbaughan8768]

Gosh, I loved them both! Toss Robert Redford in the mix. Whew!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂

[@prp3231]

@@carolbaughan8768 and Elvis !!

[@prp3231]

And Elvis

[@creeper8647]

I believe the song from "Baby the Rain Must Fall" was sung by Glenn Yarbrough, not Glen Campbell.

[@marytompkins-bv2iw]

His portrayal of Tom Horn was excellent. Not to forget Thomas Crowne, Cincinnati Kid it the Magnificent Seven.

[@vjr5261]

My dad raced out in the Mojave desert with him. They partied a few times together at trophy presentations in the late 60s early 70s. I remember seeing his kids race at Indian Dunes in Southern California. Those were awesome days.

[@rickstevens1479]

That watch story is the saddest thing ever ...his poor uncle..

[@carolinejohnson22]

He was gorgeous 🥰🥰🥰🇬🇧

[@cynthiaalver]

The Towering Inferno, Great Escape, Bullet: I love them all and the feel of each film is so different. I listed Inferno first because McQueen AND Paul Newman was this teenage girl's dream pairing.

[@DonaldMeck-q4n]

Very interesting and informative, yeah Mr. McQueen was definitely Mr. Cool. Surprised to hear that he died at the age of 50, I've been watching Wanted Dead or Alive on MeT.V really good, thanks for the show,and I will be checking out some other videos for sure !

[@muddywolf4459]

I was just going to wstch a bit, ended up watching the whole thing. Informative and enjoyable.

[@Frankaa-yg4wc]

Steve McQueen came to know Jesus is his Saviour! I hope to see Steve in person with Jesus soon!

[@debbiedefiestheoddsdebm9604]

@@Frankaa-yg4wc that's great news.

[@staceymichaels9530]

Truth

[@747fa]

Riiiiiiiight....

[@cosmicHalArizona]

My wife lived in Palm Springs in the era of Ali McGraw/Steve McQeen where they were neighbors. Sandie used to shop at the same grocery store & ran into Steve several times there. Even helped him grocery shop, nice man regular dude.

[@imtheonevanhalen1557]

Saw Bullit at a matinee when I was 13......when I was 15 I used to buy pot from a cat in a '68 green Mustang fast back......always thought of McQueen every time we visited that guy. That is and will always be the greatest car chase of all time.......the balding cat with the shot gun wincing perfectly when things got hairy in the Charger.....absolutely perfect!

[@ValerieFelitto]

Given his ùpbringing, he had a lot to prove. I guess he did

[@AmiePhillips-d8t]

I recall as a young girl being in love with "cool hand luke", and for some reason it marks a specific time period of my life. I still must stop to watch it if I run across it. Amazing actor, amazing human being. Real man with a boyish, and mischievous grin. He will live forever and never grow old. Rest in peace. I realized while watching this documentary and wonder if anyone knows... Is he the actor the main character in "once upon a time in Hollywood" is loosley based on, and his stunt man ? Great documentary by the way. Had me feeling some sort a way...

[@maryeliason1504]

Thomas Crowne Affair & Love With a Proper Stranger were great. He was subtle. Why all the negative comments?

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

He had a history of being abusive to his wife/girlfriends. That’s enough reason for me not to like him.

[@maryeliason1504]

The word is compassion

[@melanietaylor6681]

Heartthrob of my generation.

[@evelynenders3144]

A lot of people thought (and think) that the famous motor jump was done by Steve McQueen himself. In reality, it was Bud Ekins who did this masterpiece. McQueen just took silently the credit for it. Why no mention of this?

[@ocumstweezers]

McQueen wanted to do it, but they couldn't get an insurance policy. for him.

[@jeffharper9854]

McQueen also was one of the Germans chasing McQueen.

[@deb7518]

Thanks! Some very interesting details I'd never known about Steve McQueen.

[@deborahd4310]

In the movie, Baby the Rain Must Fall, it was Glen Yarbrough, not Glen Campbell who sang that song.

[@marilynevans8436]

What a colorful life!

[@marcelleray4595]

I loved the movie "Love with the Proper Stranger".

[@CarolShook-yg9nn]

@marcelleray4595 that's my favorite movie with Steve McQueen in it. I loved his chemistry with pretty Natalie

[@beckypetersen8554]

I vaguely remember seeing Steve McQueen movies as a kid. The only thing I really remember about them was cool car chases.

[@14Unow]

A great narration on one of cinema's great Mr Cool.

[@denvertherapist1]

Very cool that you hung out with him! Sounds like your memories are awesome.

[@mylastduchess9998]

It's so sad that the press couldn't let the man die in peace. If my favorite star/influencer/famous person were dying, it matters more to me that they be afforded dignity and peace then that I have the latest gossip. Their family and friends deserve that, too. 😢 I've lost more than one beloved family member to cancer, and as horrible as that was, I can't imagine going through that horrible journey while also dealing with the press.

[@kathyblock6411]

Pastor Greg Laurie mentions Steve McQueen accepted the King of Kings + the Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ the Savior into his ❤.

[@ThomasHenderson-c8e]

Wanted: Dead or Alive was The Real life version of Rick Dalton's Bounty Hunter in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood ?? Makes sense McQueen was a character in that 📽

[@Dinahflo1]

The Sand Pebbles was the first movie I saw as a young teen where the good guy didn’t win.

[@CamilleSanchez-w1k]

Steve McQueen is my forever favorite movie 🎬 star

[@juancervantes4085]

I recently learned that the script of The Bodyguard was lying around during this time and that Steve McQueen and Diana Ross were considered to star in this movie. Nothing came of it and of course years later it was filmed with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Can you imagine what McQueen and Ross could have done with this movie!

[@CarolShook-yg9nn]

@@juancervantes4085 they would have been amazing together

[@RissaFirecat]

I really liked the Blob. Scared the heck out of me. The Magnificent 7 was AWESOME!! Bullitt was also AMAZING! And the Thomas Crown Affair was great as well. Nevada Smith was an awesome movie. Those 5 are my favorite movies by him.

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

I wonder how many Honor Guards were like Steve, and my brother, who was a Guard for President Kenndy's resting place in Arlington?

[@patroberts5449]

Hearing about his childhood kind of makes me think of the kid in the movie “Second Hand Lions”

[@crystalmcleod8334]

@@patroberts5449 I was thinking the SAME thing!

[@ArthurMArt]

Not a significant mistake, but your narrator mentions the movie the" The Sand Pebbles" is set in or around WW II, I have not seen it in many years but it's definitely Pre WW II by a decade or more.

[@margaretcastell9429]

1926 is the year. When China was fighting against foreign intervention. War lords controlled the country.

[@maureentrant5588]

The BEST THING about Steve McQueen? He became a born-again Christ Follower prior to his death. So happy to learn this. I’ll have to look him up sometime in Eternity🙏🏻💙🕊️

[@HelynHughes]

@@maureentrant5588 oh that is disappointing. I thought he was more intelligent.

[@VioletEvans-yt2fd]

@@HelynHughes wow…I hope you change your mind before you die. Life is short. Eternity is forever.

[@ddiamondr1]

How could Steve McQueen say he was not a matinee idol? Also, just a note that Jay Sebring did not live at Sharon Tate‘s house. He was staying there while her husband Roman Polanski was in Europe. Bruce Lee was another person invited that night who did not attend. Imagine if Bruce Lee and Steve McQueen had been there? I think the results would’ve been different. I still remember the night that heinous crime was reported. It was absolutely shocking. Horrible. If McQueen and Lee had been there hopefully it would’ve turned out like Tarantino’s movie.

[@michelmurphy7152]

Neither Steve McQueen, Bruce Lee nor anyone else was invited to the Tate house that night in 1969. Although many celebrities claimed to have narrowly avoided being part of the massacre. It remains a Hollywood myth.

[@cwavt8849]

You are mistaken about the long-standing rivalry between Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. That rivalry existed only in Steve's head. He wanted to be Paul Newman so badly that everything Paul did Steve aped. When Paul Newman quit signing autographs, all of a sudden, so did Steve. Paul Newman seriously took up racing and what do you know... So did Steve It was Steve who insisted on equal billing with Paul. It was Steve who counted every word in every script to make sure that he had exactly as many words as Paul. Paul had a quiet confidence that had no need to boast. Steve was very much the product of his youth and always felt the need to somehow measure up to be a big man. He was mesmerizing on screen but he was not a great guy in real life. At least not to the women in his life. It's as if he wanted to make every woman pay for what his mother did to him. I loved him. I enjoyed his acting from the time I was a small child. I find him manly, intelligent, funny... I just wish that he hadn't felt the need to measure up to others.

[@janeEAV]

McQueens last surviving child and only son Chad MxQueen died Sept 11, 2024 of organ failure.

[@staceymichaels9530]

🙏🏼😢

[@AbeStephan]

Look up the mugshot of Steve McQueen when he was arrested for doing stunts with a car he rented in Anchorage Alaska . He did some fancy car stunts in downtown Anchorage while visiting on a return trip from Japan . He did some movie promotion and spent a little vacation time in Alaska . I was at a new playground made in my neighborhood at the time in the midtown area . I thought there was some big robbery at the time of his arrest because I started hearing squad car sirens all heading towards downtown . All the cops had to see for themselves when they heard his name over their dispatch .

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

I remember seeing "On Any Sunday" when we were children. I had no idea that it was produced by Steve McQueen's production company. We learn something every day. 😊

[@MichaelLeBlanc-p4f]

Grew up with McQueen being an ideal male hero. Older now, I better understand men who need to be Alpha all the time (inspiring) but prefer those who are Alpha only when genuinely necessary. They tend to remain friends longer because they tend to live longer . . . an important consideration when you reach an age when group 'casualties' approach WWII CASUALTY rates. Like WAR, getting old ain't no plsce for 'Sissys' as deard old now gone and much missed Veteran father always told me.

[@therevealing-studiesfromli4419]

Got to ❤ any guy who could drive that Mustang through my City...

[@LCJones2626]

He died in Cd. Juarez around the corner from my dad's bar. I saw the traffic it caused. A day later my dad took us to the hospital when he was getting treatment before this surgery. I ran away from home on Halloween night that year so this was before his death in November. True story bro

[@oceanhome2023]

There was a search for the new miracle drug for Cancer Laetrile(Layatril ) that fraud probably hurt a lot of people and I don’t know if they even sell it anymore .

[@staceymichaels9530]

@@oceanhome2023YES, it is sold and not fraudulent

[@catherineberry6971]

Fantastic!! The BEST yet! Thank you.

[@rcekrizpi9947]

Geez his mom.

[@Likeflowersforturtles]

Hello, you might want to correct yourself: Sebring did not share the home with Sharon Tate. He had his own home (where Sharon saw a disembodied apparition) and Sharon lived at cielo drive with Polanski

[@geminigreywolf6655]

During the Great Escape Steve did his own riding and he was so fast he ended up also doing the riding as one of the Germans chasing him.

[@Heartwing37]

Wow, what a life! He was a survivor!!!

[@Whatt787]

McQueen was the best, but this tribute didn't mention Nevada Smith(1966) one of his best movies

[@ittybittykittymama7582]

@@Whatt787 Yes, it did! It was brief, but said that's why Spielberg named his character "Indiana Jones!". Guess you must've blinked!

[@michelemoneywell8765]

21:57 The part about not going to the party because his girlfriend wanted to spend a romantic evening at her place instead.

[@danoakes4071]

liked "Hell is for Heroes" best. I thought it was spot on with the Infantry life; one of those rare, gritty films that got it right. You lived hard to be hard, where anybody, the best and the worst; could get killed or wounded at any time, and usually did.

[@changingperspective.]

His life is an inspiration to others! Thank you for this presentation. 🙏🏻🙏🏻