Birth Name: Terrance Steven McQueen Date Of Birth: March 24, 1930 Location: Beech Grove, Indiana, USA Date of Death: November 7, 1980 Location: Juarez, Mexico Cause: Lung cancer Relations: First Wife: Neile Adams (1957 - 1972) (Divorced) Second Wife: Ali MacGraw (1973 - 1978) (Divorced) Third Wife: Barbara Minty (January 16, 1980 - his death) Trivia: Height: 5 foot 10 1/2" Left handed Served in The United States Marine Corps. Dropped out of school in 9th grade Father of actor Chad McQueen Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean Was expelled from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) for riding his motorcycle through the College of Fine Arts building Steve McQueen was issued a Private Pilots license by the FAA in 1979 after learning to fly in a STEARMAN BI-PLANE which he purchased for that purpose. After his death it was sold at action with a large collection of vehicles by the estate in 1982. Trained in the martial arts under both Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris Was diagnosed with a form of lung cancer, mesothelioma, which is related to asbestos exposure. Steve McQueen wore an asbestos-insulated racers suit in his race cars, and possibly was exposed to the harmful insulating material during his stint in the Marines (1995) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#19). Was a pallbearer at the funeral of actor (and his martial arts instructor) Bruce Lee. Although he was the highest paid star of the 1960's Steve McQueen had a reputation for being tightfisted. On some films he would demand 10 electric razors, and dozens of pairs of jeans. It was later found out he gave this stuff to the Chino Reform School for boys, where he spent a few years himself. (8 August 1969) A week before the Woodstock Music Festival kicked off in Bethel, New York, McQueen had been invited for dinner at the Roman Polanski-Sharon Tate home in the Hollywood hills by mutual friend and hairdresser-to the-stars, Jay Sebring. An unexpected rendezvous with a mystery woman prompted him to cancel his appointment. In the wake of the Manson Family Tate-LaBianca murders at, respectively, 10050 Cielo Drive and 3301 Waverly Drive, McQueen would later learn that he was accorded the kind of priority billing for which he was unprepared: he topped Charles Manson's celebrity death list. Thereafter he carried a concealed weapon. (see also: Jerzy Kosinski and Jeremy Lloyd.) Of the 2000 performers that auditioned for Lee Strasberg's exclusive Actors' Studio in 1955, only two were accepted: Martin Landau and Steve McQueen. (October 1997) Ranked #30 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.

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