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STEVE MCQUEEN (1930-1980).

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:500.00 - 600.00 GBP
STEVE MCQUEEN (1930-1980).
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An autograph from the King of Cool, Steve McQueen, mounted, framed and supplied with coa.

McQueen starred in several films of quality during the 1960s, including The War Lover (1962), Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), Soldier in the Rain (1963), Baby, the Rain Must Fall (1965), and The Cincinnati Kid (1965). He received his only Oscar nomination for another war epic, The Sand Pebbles (1966), but his definitive role came as a world-weary detective solving a mob murder case in Bullitt (1968). In this film, McQueen’s real-life enthusiasm for racing came into play in a celebrated extended car chase through the streets of San Francisco for which McQueen himself acted as stunt driver. The stylish caper The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) cast McQueen against type as a wealthy and elegant thief, and it proved to be one of his most memorable performances.

Many more hit movies followed in the 1970s. In Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway (1972), he costarred with Ali McGraw, who in 1973 became the second of his three wives; they divorced in 1978. Other films from this period included the well-received Papillon (1973) and the popular disaster movie The Towering Inferno (1974). However, McQueen did little to develop as an actor. He took a three-year hiatus to star in and produce a screen adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s stage play An Enemy of the People (1977), a drama about a scientist’s efforts to expose his community’s polluted water system. The film was decidedly a labour of love for the actor, but it was poorly received and barely released theatrically. In 1980 McQueen twice played a bounty hunter, in the western Tom Horn and in the contemporary action movie The Hunter, his final film.