Steve McQueenFilmography

Born:: March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, IN
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Terrence Steven McQueen
Biography:: Steve McQueen was the prototypical example of a new sort of movie star which emerged in the 1950s and would come to dominate the screen in the 1960s and '70s -- a cool, remote loner who knew how to use his fists without seeming like a run-of-the-mill tough guy, a thoughtful man in no way an effete...Read More

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Dust to Glory

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Dana Brown, who created a visually striking look at the world of surfing in 2003's Step Into Liquid, hits dry land running in this portrait of the world of off-road racing. The Baja 1000 is one of the world's premier desert racing events; taking place both on and off the Read More

4/1/05
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool

2005
The Making of Bullitt

Synopsis: Go behind the scenes of one of the most legendary cop thrillers in cinematic history with this documentary from director Ronald Saland. The winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Editing, Bullitt is among the best-loved pictures of the late Steve McQueen's career, and McQueen is on hand here along with Read More

2001
On Any Sunday: Motocross, Malcolm & More

Synopsis: Nominated for Best Documentary at the 1971 Academy Awards, On Any Sunday is perhaps the best-known film ever made about the sport of motorcross. Three decades later, the filmmakers revisted the film for this 2001 follow-up. On Any Sunday: Motocross, Malcolm & More features footage left on the Read More

2001
The Hollywood Collection: Steve McQueen - Man on the Edge

Synopsis: This documentary, narrated by James Mason, traces the life of legendary big screen actor Steve McQueen. The product of a broken home and reform school, McQueen made a brilliant career in film in the 1960's and 1970's playing characters not unlike his own. He played the wily and rebellious loner in Read More

1991
Hollywood's Leading Men: Steve McQueen

Actors: Steve McQueen

1991
Blobermouth

Synopsis: The original Blob was a good-hearted romp of a horror movie: even quite young children are unlikely to have found it threatening. Following in the footsteps of Woody Allen, the makes of the current film have secured rights to the original film and have re-dubbed the dialogue. In the new story, the Read More

1991
Monsters and Maniacs

1988
Wild West

1987
Smoke That Cigarette

Synopsis: This program includes a parade of jingles and authentic advertisements for cigarettes - all from the carefree days when smoking still seemed to be fun and glamorous (before sobering medical information made abstaining from smoking both a prudent lifestyle choice and an inflammatory social cause). Read More

1987
Bruce Lee: The Legend

Synopsis: This video is a tribute to the incomparable kung-fu master as it includes rare footage of his athletic capabilities and interviews with some of the people who knew him. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Tom Horn

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Steve McQueen, Richard Farnsworth, Linda Evans, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Steve McQueen's penultimate film deals with a fascinating western legend, founded on an insightful script by Thomas McGuane and Bud Shrake. Unfortunately, the film was done in by the five directors --Don Siegel, Elliot Silverstein, James Guercio, William Wiard, and McQueen himself-- that were, at Read More

1980
The Hunter

Actors: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Steve McQueen's last film concerns a modern day bounty hunter who searches for bail jumpers. Based on real life bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson, the film details his exciting life, traveling from one city to another, trying to track down fugitives and continually risking his life in the Read More

1980
An Enemy of the People

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Steve McQueen, Charles Durning, Bibi Andersson, Eric Christmas, Michael Cristofer

Synopsis: Steve McQueen served as both star and executive producer for this film version of the drama by Henrik Ibsen, which was adapted by Arthur Miller. When Dr. Thomas Stockmann (McQueen) discovers that a tannery has dangerously polluted a hot spring in his community, he feels that it is his duty to Read More

1978
The Towering Inferno

Actors: Carlena Gower, Carol McEvoy, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of the Glass Tower, the world's tallest building, architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and builder James Duncan (William Holden) hold a gala bash on the highest floors. Trouble Read More

1974
Papillon

Actors: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of Devil's Island, served as the basis for Papillon. Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charriere (known as "Papillon," or "butterfly," because of a prominent tatoo) Read More

1973
The Getaway

Actors: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri

Synopsis: In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to Read More

1972
Junior Bonner

Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to Read More

1972
Le Mans

Actors: Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt

Synopsis: Steve McQueen is ideally cast as a champion race car driver, participating in the famed 24-hour race headquartered in Le Mans, France. Though dedicated to Going for the Gold, McQueen finds time to romance widowed Elga Andersen. The dramatic angle to this plot wrinkle is that McQueen may well have Read More

1971
On Any Sunday

Actors: Bruce Brown, Steve McQueen, Mert Lawwill, Malcolm Smith

Synopsis: With narration by co-producer Steve McQueen (who also races in some of its segments), director Bruce Brown (best-known for his poetic surfing documentary, Endless Summer) takes us into the incredibly varied and physically demanding world of motorcycle racing. Shot during a two-year period and Read More

1971
The Reivers

Actors: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Adapted from William Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers top-bills Steve McQueen, but the major character is feisty 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin, played by Mitch Vogel. Growing up in Mississippi in the early 1900s, Lucius finds himself (through a hectic series of circumstances) in a bordello, where Read More

1969
Bullitt

Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Robert L. Pike's crime novel Mute Witness makes the transition to the big screen in this film from director Peter Yates. In one of his most famous roles, Steve McQueen stars as tough-guy police detective Frank Bullitt. The story begins with Bullitt assigned to a seemingly routine detail Read More

1968
The Thomas Crown Affair

Actors: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all behind. Tired of being part of the Establishment, he has hopes of pulling off the caper and flying to Rio. Erwin Weaver (Jack Weston) leads the cast of crooks who never actually Read More

1968
The Sand Pebbles

Actors: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Marayat Andriane

Synopsis: Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel by Richard McKenna. In 1926, as China teeters on the edge of political revolution in the midst of a civil war, the USS San Pablo, is ordered to patrol the Yangtze Read More

1966
Nevada Smith

Actors: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor Ken Maynard. Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand (Steve McQueen) by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated Read More

1966
Baby, the Rain Must Fall

Actors: Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray, Paul Fix, Josephine Hutchinson

Synopsis: Adapted by Horton Foote from his own play The Travelling Lady, Baby the Rain Must Fall stars Steve McQueen as a troube-prone country singer and Lee Remick as his estranged wife. Released on parole after serving time for knifing a man, McQueen returns to Remick and their young daughter Kimberly Read More

1965
The Cincinnati Kid

Actors: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid decides to challenge The Man (Edward G. Robinson), the reigning poker champ, who is in town for a private game. The Shooter (Karl Malden), another gambling pro, arranges a game Read More

1965
Love with the Proper Stranger

Actors: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Taken for granted by her Italian family, New Yorker Natalie Wood seeks solace in the arms of irresponsible jazz musician Steve McQueen. She becomes pregnant, but doesn't expect McQueen to marry her; all she wants is enough money to pay for an illegal abortion (this is ten years before Roe v. Read More

1963
Soldier in the Rain

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill, Tom Poston

Synopsis: The unlikely duo of Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason star in this military comedy-drama. Gleason is Master Sergeant Max Slaughter, a corpulent man perfectly content with his solitary life in the Army, where his room and board are paid for and free sodas are his for the taking. His comrade, the Read More

1963
The Great Escape

Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, James Coburn

Synopsis: The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly impenetrable Nazi prison camp during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the Nazis gather all their most devious and troublesome POWs and place them at a new prison Read More

1963
Hell Is for Heroes

Actors: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Nick Adams, Harry Guardino, Mike Kellin, James Coburn

Synopsis: Don Siegel's only war film and unfortunately his only teaming with Steve McQueen, an actor whose rebellious persona jibed well with the director's vision, it puts the star in the familiar role of antihero. His character, Reese, is an embittered G.I. who has just been sent back to join his Read More

1962
The War Lover

Actors: Al Waxman, Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Ann Field, Gary Cockrell, Michael Crawford

Synopsis: Loosely based on a novel by John Hersey, this standard wartime drama stars Steve McQueen as Buzz Rickson, command pilot of a B17 bomber, and Robert Wagner as Ed Bolland, his co-pilot. When Buzz first comes on the scene, Ed admires him for his daring and skill in executing the bombing raids over Read More

1962
The Honeymoon Machine

Actors: Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger, Jack Mullaney

Synopsis: Just a few years before The Great Escape would catapult Steve McQueen to stardom, the charismatic actor played the lead, Lt. Fergie Howard, in this light romantic farce involving the computers on a Navy ship. Lt. Howard is playing poker on the good ship El Mira when he gets a brilliant idea. Why Read More

1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Man From the South

Synopsis: One of the best-remembered of all the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes, "Man From the South" is a typically twisted tale from the pen of Roald Dahl. The scene is Las Vegas, where a middle-aged gent named Carlos (Peter Lorre) approaches a brash young gambler (Steve McQueen) with a peculiar wager. Read More

1960
The Magnificent Seven

Actors: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn

Synopsis: Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). As Elmer Bernstein's unforgettable theme music (later Read More

1960
Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season 03

Actors: Steve McQueen

Synopsis: Having been teamed with deputy sheriff Jason Nichols during the latter part of Wanted: Dead or Alive's second season, bounty hunter Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) reverts to his original "lone wolf" status as the series' third and final season gets under way -- a reflection, perhaps, of McQueen's Read More

1960
Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season 02

Actors: Steve McQueen, Wright King

Synopsis: Steve McQueen returns as laconic bounty hunter Josh Randall as Wanted: Dead or Alive moseys into its second season. As in season one, the best episodes are graced by the presence of some of Hollywood's best supporting actors. Kasey Rogers, later to play the wife of Larry Tate (David White) on Bewitched Read More

1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Human Interest Story

Synopsis: Steve McQueen was already well into the first season of his own TV Western, Wanted: Dead or Alive, when he appeared in this memorable episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. McQueen is cast as newspaper reporter Bill Everett, who at the behest of his editor (Tyler McVey) heads to a corner bar to Read More

1959
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

Actors: Steve McQueen, David Clarke, Graham Denton, Molly McCarthy, James Dukas

Synopsis: Based on an actual bank heist (and even using the St. Louis policemen who took part in thwarting the original robbery), this fairly ho-hum caper film stars Steve McQueen as the driver of the getaway car for the four bank robbers. The four men go over their plan several times, including dry runs to Read More

1959
Never So Few

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: Action director John Sturges had a few good films behind him (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a few more to come (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) when he put together this colorful story of wartime romance. In addition to his talents as a director, this saga of an Read More

1959
The Blob

Actors: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Stephen Chase

Synopsis: In his first starring role, Steve McQueen plays a typical oversexed, car-lovin' highschooler who can't get anyone to believe his story about a huge meteor, which crashes to earth and begins exuding a pink, gooey substance. Affixing itself to the body of an old man, the "blob" begins parasitically Read More

1958
Never Love a Stranger

Actors: John Drew Barrymore, Lita Milan, Robert Bray, Steve McQueen, Salem Ludwig, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Never Love a Stranger--especially if it's young hoodlum Frank Kane (John Drew Barrymore). When it is discovered that his natural parents were Jewish, Kane is removed from the Catholic orphanage that has been his only home. Seething with resentment, he vows to succeed at gangsterdom. He rises Read More

1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season 01

Actors: Steve McQueen

Synopsis: Introduced in pilot form as an episode of Trackdown in March of 1958, Wanted: Dead or Alive launched its first weekly season in the fall of that year. The opening episode, "The Martin Poster," finds bounty hunter Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) tracking down the murderers of a sheriff -- one of whom Read More

1958
The Defender

Synopsis: This gripping courtroom drama -- originally broadcast live on the television series Studio One in 1957 -- follows a father and son legal team (William Shatner and Ralph Bellamy) as they take on a case to defend a notorious juvenile delinquent (Steve McQueen) who has been accused of murder. Later Read More

1957
Studio One: The Defender, Part 2

1957
Studio One: The Defender, Part 1

1957
Somebody Up There Likes Me

Actors: Paul Newman, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you will be able to accept Somebody Up Their Likes Me as one of the more accomplished movie biopics of the 1950s. Based on Graziano's autobiography (co-written with Rowland Read More

1956
Biography: Steve McQueen

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