Starring Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens, Peter Canon, Elisha Cook, Jr. Screenplay by Thomas McGuane and Bud Shrake, based on the autobiography by Tom Horn. Image Credit: Solar/Kobal/REX/Shutterstockĭirected by William Wiard. Tour our photo gallery of McQueen’s 15 greatest films, including a few for which he should’ve received Oscar nominations. He twice won their now-defunct prize as Favorite Film Star – Male (once in 1967, again in 1970). The role also brought him a Golden Globe bid, and he additionally competed at that group for “Love with the Proper Stranger” (1963), “The Reivers” (1969), and “Papillon” (1973). gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River in China. His sole Oscar nomination as Best Actor came for the Robert Wise-directed World War II epic “The Sand Pebbles” (1966), in which he played a rebellious sailor aboard a U.S. Known as “The Kind of Cool,” his onscreen persona as a reluctant antihero made him a favorite of both men who wanted to be him and women who wanted to be with him. He quickly made a name for himself as an action star thanks to a series of hits through the 1960s and early 1970s, including “The Magnificent Seven” (1960), “The Great Escape” (1963), “Bullitt” (1968), “The Thomas Crown Affair” (1968), “The Getaway” (1972), and “The Towering Inferno” (1974).

But how many of those titles remain classics? Let’s take a look back at 15 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.īorn in 1930, McQueen first came to the attentions of movie audiences with his leading role in the sci-fi B-movie classic “The Blob” (1958). Steve McQueen was the Oscar-nominated performer who helped define the meaning of “cool” in just a handful of movies before his untimely death in 1980 at the age of 50.

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