Not only was he the king of cool, his acting was at another level, he was a stunt man, a race car driver, a lover of life, a style icon - those crystal blue eyes were as intense as he was. A true legend. Great tribute.

I remember that I was about 10 yrs old, at a motocross race in Madera CA, and Steve was there with his wife , and after the race, everyone else was around his truck, and I knew he was Steve McQueen. He came right up to me and gave me his autograph. He did the same thing for everyone, he was such I nice man. And he's always been my favorite.

I was an acquaintance of Steve. My father owned a gas station in Santa Paula, Ca and Steve lived on the other side of town and frequently hung out there with his friend Von Dutch who was a minor celebrity in classic car circles. Little known fact about Steve was he gave BIG $$$ to charities for disadvantaged youth. People have written books about Steve mentioning his generosity, but I can tell you he gave away far more money than those books say. Steve was by nature a very quite person so he gets no credit for being as generous as he was so I'm here telling you he was. 👍

@mohsan6076

Жыл бұрын

the best forever

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

Steve gave his TIME as well as $$$. Many give money and it ends there.

@ltkreg

Жыл бұрын

@@joinjen3854Steve had a very unhappy childhood. He spent a lot of time at Boys Town in Chino, Ca which is basicly a reform school for juvenile delinquents. I'm sure this is why he donated more than just $$$ to such causes. 🙂

@mezulpo2567

Жыл бұрын

That’s nice to hear.

@ltkreg

Жыл бұрын

@M.C. Smith Yes, but what ever you "heard" about how much he gave remember in reality he gave a lot more. At one time I believe he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood so he had the $$$ to give, but he was so quite about it very few people know. It wasn't like now where celebrities publicists stage photo op's of them handing a check to a starving paraplegic orphan, and then the celeb gets into their BMW and drives home to they're mansion to rest because it's been such an exhausting day.

McQueen was an absolute legend. He didn't need to talk... just his look was enough! 😅😁👍

@garyantill242

Жыл бұрын

The Lord knows what he did that's good enough

@mezulpo2567

Жыл бұрын

Amen!

@stevenrobert8567

Жыл бұрын

I miss him.

@JohnDoe-jc3cl

6 ай бұрын

Liverpool That look! I get the feeling he wasn’t acting. Ready to kick some A at the drop of a hat. Seriously.

Steve McQueen...one of THOSE actors we'll never forget.

@Zeno_334

Ай бұрын

Even though I am not American, I LOVE America, and I feel that the America Steve McQueen represented is rapidly disappearing. I hope I am wrong.

Steve McQueen. How can you not love an eternal iconoclast like that?

I grew up watching his movies. Makes me nostalgic. Great actor.

@cbrvo8440

Жыл бұрын

Hmm, me too! It was a great time.

@stevenappleton7048

Жыл бұрын

Forget Brando, Nicholson, Olivier. The Greatest Actor Ever was Yul Brynner.

I loved a little gem of his a Romantic comedy with Natalie Wood called LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER.

Thomas Crown Affair................with Faye Dunaway.........brilliant...

So glad to see people still remember the king of cool! I still miss him so much. I remember how kind my mother was when she told me he died… I was just a goofy teen. He’s the only person I ever idolized and adored…

@mariaevans5793

Жыл бұрын

Steve will always be remembered by true film fans !!!!!!!😁🇬🇧

@JBliehall

Жыл бұрын

@@mariaevans5793 In real-life he was NOT a good person.

@cbrvo8440

Жыл бұрын

@@JBliehall So, we're talking woke here?🤔

@moistmike4150

Жыл бұрын

@@cbrvo8440 Well, he was a cis-genedered member of the patriarchy. Full of toxic testosterone and vital male potential. That used to be a good thing, but no more.

@mezulpo2567

Жыл бұрын

@@cbrvo8440 thanks c Brvo! There’s always a commentor who has to be negative. I think their greatest goal in life is to make others feel bad.

One if my favorite movies with Steve McQueen is with my favorite actress Natalie Wood. Love with the Proper Stranger - 1963.❤

Entertainment at it's best, thank you Steve.

Papillon!! Outstanding actor 👌❤, how do I look?...and !? Nevada Smith!!!

Great movies! Bullitt, The Sand Pebbles, Papillon, The Great Escape, but as a kid growing up, I always enjoyed the TV series he starred in, Wanted: Dead or Alive!

My two favorite Steve McQueen movies: Papillon and The Great Escape. IMO one of the greatest action stars ever.

Fantastic movie icon he brought the screen alive , he sadly passed before his time who knows what films he would have gone on to make

All His Movies were GREAT. R.I.P.

My favorite scene with Steve McQueen is definitely the motorcycle chase from "THE GREAT ESCAPE"!

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

Much of that was his stunt double, Bud Ekins, because the studio would not allow him to get tangled in the wire.

@billknox4121

Жыл бұрын

Gotta say Bullitt was my favorite

@AzzKicker-bz1cb

Жыл бұрын

@@joinjen3854 That’s interesting, cause I saw a video a couple years ago where they showed that he did 95%or more of the motorcycle parts including being the Germans on motorcycles chasing him!!! Maybe for the scene where he was jumping the fences, but I believe he did most of not all the motorcycle parts!!!

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

@@AzzKicker-bz1cb yes, Steve did play at least some of the Germans. I worked in Hollywood and they fabricate many back stories! I have no doubt Steve had the skill to do every stunt but insurance would not allow Steve to do that one of him getting tangled in the wires.

@bjb7587

Жыл бұрын

​​@@billknox4121 First DVD I ever bought for my first player, a *long* time ago. I still have it in the bookcase behind me. "Two feature length documentaries", including "Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool". And other Special Features

As a man of a certain age I was raised on Steve McQueen and Sir Thomas Sean Connery

@cbrvo8440

Жыл бұрын

That was a time, wasn't it?..There were heros..

@maureencora1

Жыл бұрын

1930 They Both Were Born That Year with Robert Wagner, Rod Taylor, Clint Eastwood, My Uncle O'.

What a legend

Great job. I really loved The Great Escape and The zThomas Crown Affair and The Magnificent Seven.

The one I like the most is from Magnificent Seven: He and Chris have gone up to see the Old Man and talk him into coming into town. "Their conversation would bore me to death!" states the Old Man. "They are farmers, here; they talk about fertilizer and women. I have never been interested in fertilizer, and as to women? I lost interest when I was 85." The camera cuts to McQueen, who's character is Alway interested in women, and this odd expression crosses his face. I can see his thoughts: "lost interest? Is THAT what I get to look forward to??" It's a masterpiece of subtle, non-verbal acting.

Love that first clip. One of my favorite Steve McQueen clips. What a smart A$$. Thanks for posting

I'm 57 and growing up Steve was my first screen idol and still is.. King of Cool

His best film was probably The Getaway. He once said Faye Dunaway was the best actress he ever worked with. His best performance was probably The Sand Pebbles.

@robertfreedman6651

Жыл бұрын

Received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Jake Holman in The Sand Pebbles.

@MrCarpen7er

Жыл бұрын

Papillon was his best movie and performance.

I'm 68 years old. For me and a lot of others of my generation Steve was The Man.

Let us not forget Steves' buddy Bud Ekinso who was flown over to Europe to do the famous jump scene

I'm going to be 60 , and to this day Steve McQueen is my favorite

Let us not forget Steves' buddy Bud Ekins who did the jump scene over one of the rows of barbed wire.....

thought it might include a Bullitt scene, but indeed, my all time favorite movie WAS The Great Escape. Probably watched it near a dozen times.. over the decades since

Love Steve and miss him. Met him on the set of the getaway in el paso at the oasis drive in in ne el paso. On a lighter note ,here is a drinking game. Watch a McQueen movie, and every time he makes a kissy face, take a drink. 😂

The best actor that ever lived?? nope...just one of the coolest dudes to grace the silver screen.

Great, beautiful scene!. Cheers from Chicago Happy New Year.

Steve McQueen first and foremost an irreplaceable movie star he was the king of cool and a great actor a quiet guy he also made good pictures and he is probably thought about now long after his passing certain actors leave a mark and a lasting impression steve McQueen was one of these types RiP steve McQueen you were great besides cool ❤😂🎉😅😊.

The king of cool. Merveilleux acteur tant regretté. N'oublions pas toute sa filmographie à faire rêver. Des yeux inoubliables. Un acteur irremplaçable. ❤❤❤😢😢

There is an episode of WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE with a 20 year old DYAN CANNON starring with Steve McQueen. Now that is worth seeing.

CANT WAIT FOR MGM+ see whats all about , i wanna subscribe to that

His role as Jake Holman in The Sand Pebbles was a good one.

@maureencora1

Жыл бұрын

I Heard He Didn't Like or Watch the Movies He was K*I*A.

@JBliehall

Жыл бұрын

@@maureencora1 He did that movie when James Garner was doing Gran Prix which he wanted to do. He didn't talk to Garner for over a year he was so mad he wasn't chosen for the part.

@maureencora1

Жыл бұрын

@@JBliehall Touche' (smile)

I too still miss him so much!

It just occurred to me that the two greatest vehicle chases in cinema history belong to McQueen. The motorcycle chase in The Great Escape and the Mustang/Challenger chase in Bullitt. The latter has been omitted from this video for some reason.

@randallwood6814

Жыл бұрын

probably because Bullitt isn't an MGM property.

@cbrvo8440

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching Bullitt in a movie theater when it came out. We got there early but, because McQueen was so popular it was already half full, so we found seating in the middle of the theater. I recall during the chase noticing that as the Mustang hit the stair-step like cross streets everyone moved up and down in their seats. Watching the screen it felt like you were actually in the car.

@billknox4121

Жыл бұрын

The charger R/T had more H/P but Steve was the better driver . Still may be the best car chase scene ever and the original bullitt Mustang sold for close to 3.5 million recently. The other stunt Mustang was scraped after the movie was completed and 2 were used as well as the Chargers

@bwoolno

Жыл бұрын

@@cbrvo8440 Sat in the front row for Bullitt and you are correct , It was like you were in the cars

@jamorjr1

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't a Challenger it was a Charger

Thumbs up just because i to am a Steve McQueen fan 👍

Steve McQueen - the quintessential Great American.

WELL DONE YOU TUBE !!!!!!!!!!!!! EXCELLENTÉ !

As much as I like The Great Escape, Steve’s all-time best performance was in The Sand Pebbles. You missed a golden opportunity.

@paintegrity.

Жыл бұрын

You're right!!!

@alanward4506

Жыл бұрын

@@paintegrity. Absolutely his best performance.I was at sea and met an old AB,I asked him what was the best time,best job he`d ever had and he told me `The China station between the wars,what he described sounded just like the film on board.

@nicopolis7377

Жыл бұрын

Sand Pebbles , just one of his great movies .

@MrCarpen7er

Жыл бұрын

His best performance was in Papillon, not in The Sand Pebbles

@joeysanguine3596

7 ай бұрын

Indeed, what a stellar performance ❤😊

The Sand Pebbles, The Great Escape, the Magnificent Seven, Papillion, The Cincinnati Kid, The Gateway. I couldn't ask more from an actor!

@carmenandthedevil2804

Жыл бұрын

Forgot Bullitt.

@sepanta8762

Жыл бұрын

@@carmenandthedevil2804 Yes, I did! That one is surely a big one.

Wow what a actor loved him in great escape and towering inferno. They are the main ones I remember growing up. ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

I liked Quentin Tarantino tipped his cap to McQueen by having Leonardo DiCaprio do a screen test for The Great Escape. Sorry Leonardo. You're a good actor,but nobody can be McQueen.

LOVE IT!!!

One my favorite actors

Incomplete “best” from only 3 select films. He did a lot more than just these three. Still good video as a Steve McQueen fan. Was hoping for more.

I bought the box set off Amazon....Bullet being the coolest one...Hunter is another he was in, bounty hunter based on real person. ...as well as Getaway...all awesome

@mezulpo2567

Жыл бұрын

Yeah directed by Peckinpah, the godfather of shoot em up movies. The Getaway will always be a fave!

thank you Rob, I too on occasion have meet celebrities and they are some of the nicest, not full of self, boasting and such. Did political jaunts with some back in California for McGovern, took a beating 49 states for Nixon to 1 for Mcgovern and thats the way it was.. like watergate didn't matter then. for sure but i was young and full of myself and being in the draft, didn't minced words back then, found that sometimes need to find it again.

I haven't seen The Thomas Crown Affair in years, I have to put it on my list

In the Great Escape, Steve McQueen posed as German on motorcycle chasing McQueen. The final jump over the fence wasn't Steve McQueen. It was his stunt man which earned the Great Escape an Oscar for film editing.

@JBliehall

Жыл бұрын

And it should have rated a D- for authenticity. Sparkling clean uniforms with rank and ribbons? REALLY???

I heard a story about that lunatic Keith Moon. Apparently he lived next door to Steve McQueen in LA and kept driving a motorcycle through Steve's garden fence.

He was one hip/far out cat man !

Why clips from only three of his films? Just scratched the surface with these.

Great Actor thank you.

They only made one. All the current ones are pale imitations. He set the bar so high, only he could reach it. RIP Stevie

"Took me a long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock. Right now I belong back in that border town, sleepin' on cotton sheets. Think I'll ride back to that village."

Steve McQueen passed away 43 years ago today. He was only 50 and if not for his rapidly deteriorating health at the time, would've made many more great films into the 1980's and possibly 90's. RIP Steve McQueen

The legendary steve mcqueen.

I remember a western movie "Nevada Smith", I was 14 I think when I saw it. He died when he was only 50 of pleural mesothelioma.

@mezulpo2567

Жыл бұрын

Nevada Smith is great. The scenes of his fight with Martin Landau are awesome. McQueen jumping around on a fence!!! Amazing!

@joehamlet7576

Жыл бұрын

He had terminal cancer and when he went to have tumors taken out, he died of a heart attack. Yeah, the cancer was killing him, but it was the heart attack that did him in.

Un gran actor 👋👋👋

I always thought that one of Steve McQueen's best movies was "THE SAND PEBBLES". RATHER THAN HALF OF YOUR VIDEO BEING THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, A CLIP OR 2 FROM SAND PEBBLES WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE.

This tribute is only focused on Steve's films for the United Artist studio. United Artist is today owned by MGM.

The legendary car chase.

@JBliehall

Жыл бұрын

Where the Charger loses 5 hub caps...............

1:33 Hannes Messemer ist MEIN Held !

I used to watch wanted dead or alive every Saturday afternoon

I missed The Sand Pebbles!

Definition of Cool=Steve McQueen 🥰

@bethanyturner335

Жыл бұрын

Steve McQueen is cool incarnate!

The best uncle Steve

I'll never forget my high school English teacher--class of '63--when she said he had a sheep's mouth.

Papllion was a great performance!

Dude was definitely the king of cool!

Steve mc queen is a great actor

I still love this guy. The Sand Pebbles is my favorite McQueen film or sometimes Bullitt is. Still love The Great Escape, but never much of a fan of The Magnificent Seven.

@JBliehall

Жыл бұрын

In real-life he was a selfless angry belligerent human being.

@cbrvo8440

Жыл бұрын

@@JBliehall Like MOST ALL wokies, you don't UNDERSTAND the use of language...Selfless means "UNselfish, motivated by a concern for others".

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

@@JBliehall did you personally know Steve?

@carmenandthedevil2804

Жыл бұрын

@@JBliehall Take a dump when you take the jump prik.

Bullett was his greatest role. It left it's mark on me.

@JBliehall

Жыл бұрын

Even with the Challenger losing 5 hubcaps???

What about The Sand Pebbles? He was nominated for an Oscar.

Steve McQueen was many things to many people but what he would want to be remembered as, first and foremost is that he was a child of GOD! Steve died a born again CHRISTIAN, and Sammy Mason was one of his best friends, and he led Steve to JESUS! This gives me so much joy, l want to BURST inside! Steve found that everything in life fell short of his expectations. As he pointed out what king Solomon said ''Vanity, vanity, all is vanity''. l am SO thankful that Steve is in the arms of his SAVIOR! Hallelujah, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone! :D

Loved the car chase in Bullit.

@JBliehall

Жыл бұрын

Even with the Challenger losing 5 hubcaps???

Possibly my 3rd favourite actor of all time. He was so brilliant.

@paragkirloskar633

Жыл бұрын

may we know the first two

@markpasse9691

Жыл бұрын

@@paragkirloskar633 James Caan and Burt Lancaster Bro.

@paragkirloskar633

Жыл бұрын

@@markpasse9691 ok, thanks

@markpasse9691

Жыл бұрын

@@paragkirloskar633 My pleasure Bro. I really miss that era of movies. I guess that I'm showing my age but I still believe that it was a great era of movies. There really weren't much special effects at all. They were just simple quality movies.

R.I.P. TO HEAVEN FOR EVER, MR. STEVE MCQUEEN!!!... FOR MY HUMAN, PERSONAL JUDICE, YOUR BEST MOVIES ARE: THE MAGNIFICENT 7, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE LE MANS 24 HOURS, & BULLIT DETECTIVE!!!... GOOD LIVES & LUCK, TO ALL ACTOR/RESS, AND WORKERS, OF THIS MOVIES!!! BY BY, BY AN ITALIANS FAN, ALIAS ROBIN HOOD 2023😇😶‍🌫

Yes one of the many to his career 😅

After Bogart, the coolest guy in Hollywood history.

OMG, I saw the film of Great Scape when I was 12 YO at Egypt ... 54 years ago !!!

After the motorcycle jump, my friends and I made ramps in the Bronx to jump our bicycles. One older friend took off from up the block on a 10 speed Schwinn. Hit the ramp, went as high as the top of a coal truck and his front tire came off while up in the air. And I love telling kids who the toy, Lightening McQueen, is named after.

@douglasdavis8395

Жыл бұрын

*Lightning

A true "Best of Steve McQueen" compilation would include footage of him being a raging alcoholic, beating his pregnant wife, and cheating on her.

@JBliehall

Жыл бұрын

He was a good actor....and a very mean and angry man.

Bullitt, the quintessential Steve McQueen movie.

Hollywood is devoid of this quality actor/personality

@777Patriot

Жыл бұрын

So True

Boa tarde um saudoso ator de sucesso, em belos trabalhos incríveis. Gostei do vídeo.

Amazed that he batted for both sides (like Paul Newman!), and 'went' with Jimmy Dean! Always thought he was 100%. Loved his acting.

@michaelellringer5600

8 ай бұрын

Paul Newman, McQueen and Brando were the most True Blue Bisexuals you'd ever meet. Jimmy Dean was into pain. When they did an autopsy on him after his accident, they discovered cigarette burns all over his body.

POW camp, no first line MG 's used to guard, old obsolete models mainly, even captured enemy, Mg-42 etc needed more at the front

@joehamlet7576

Жыл бұрын

No way to tell, but it could have been an MG34. Very similar to the newer MG42.

I am so thankful Steve received Christ as his Saviour due to the testimony of a Christian pilot who flew him to Mexico for cancer treatments. Loved him as an actor, look forward to meet him in Heaven as a fellow sinner, saved by GRACE

@PaulP999

Жыл бұрын

How sad you are that you need to hijack dead people behind their backs for your own agenda - no different to the modern CG adverts that put dead stars into their commercial.

@johndough201

Жыл бұрын

Too bad a great guy desperate for treatment was duped by the Mexican doctors

@davidinsf2680

Жыл бұрын

Why yah gotta litter this non-religious page with religious garbage?

@liesbethrobison

8 ай бұрын

@briancharter8720 Yes! Blessed be the name of the Lord He had his eye on Steve and gathered him up just as he did you and I.

@Eric_D_Blair

6 ай бұрын

🙏🛐✝️☦️✡️🔯♻️🗽🇺🇸🫵😉☮️😇

The King of Cool.

SEMPRE FIU FÃ DO STEVE.NUNCA LHE DERAM A IMPORTÂNCIA MERECIDA.AGORA RESOLVERAM HOMENAGEA-LO TODA HORA.

@MrCarpen7er

Жыл бұрын

Nunca lhe deram importância? 😂😂😂 Vai dormir que isso passa!

Bradley Cooper is set To play Frank Bullit this Year,and will directed by Spielberg" It's a fact!

@robinmills8675

Жыл бұрын

Why can't Hollywood write anything new?

I loved Steve McQueen

Dude, where is Papillon ???

His name is Steve McQueen. He is my best and only Hero.