Delroy Lindo

He continues to work on screen, most recently in Wondrous Oblivion (2003).
. Among the films he has starred in have been Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty, Clockers, Feeling Minnesota, and as the baseball player Satchel Paige in Black and White (1996). He was honored in the 2002 Sheryl Crow song called "Steve McQueen". It was director Spike Lee who provided the boost Lindo's career needed, even though he had turned down a role in Do the Right Thing to act alongside Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen in the cult sci-fi movie Salute of the Jugger (1990), and cast him as Woody Carmichael in the comedy Crooklyn (1994). Prefab Sprout released an album called "Steve McQueen" in 1985. In 1982, he debuted on Broadway in Master Harold and the Boys directed by the play's author Athol Fugard and by 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come and Gone. After 1978 he appeared only in two further films before he died in November of 1980, only 50 years old, in Juárez, Mexico due to a heart attack following a last-ditch effort to fight mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer caused by extensive asbestos exposure throughout his life.

His movie debut came in 1976 with the British comedy Find the Lady (1976) followed by two other roles in films such as that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffitti (1979) when he quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre production. He was married to Barbara Minty in January 1980. where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He married actress Ali McGraw in 1973 and divorced her in 1978. As a teenager he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada and by the 1970s they had moved to the U.S. McQueen was married to Neile Adams from 1957 until their divorce in 1972; from this marriage he had a son and a daughter. The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, where at age 5 on the strength of the nativity plays he appeared in became a stage actor. During his acting career he even seriously considered becoming a professional race car driver.

Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British born, American actor. He liked fast machines, and when he had the opportunity to drive these vehicles in a movie, he did it himself, performing many of his own stunts. Wondrous Oblivion (2003). McQueen was a motorcycle and race car enthusiast. The Core (2003). After The Towering Inferno in 1974, McQueen did not return to film until 1978, when he played in An Enemy of the People. Cider House Rules (1999). From then on he mixed character roles in works such as 1973's Papillon, with pure spectacle in the 1971 car races film Le Mans or in The Getaway in 1972.

A Life Less Ordinary (1997). Before, he had already earned an Academy Award nomination for the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles. Black and White (1996). His breakthrough, however, came in 1963 with The Great Escape, and his fame peaked in 1968 with Bullitt. Get Shorty (1996). Between 1958 and 1960 he gained recognition with the television series Wanted: Dead or Alive. Malcolm X (1992). McQueen moved into film in 1956 with Somebody Up There Likes Me, securing his first lead role in the 1958 movie The Blob.

Salute of the Jugger (1990). Bill to study at the Actors' Studio in New York, making his Broadway debut in 1955 in A Hatful of Rain. More American Graffitti (1979). In 1952, he took advantage of the G.I. Find the Lady (1976). Soon McQueen left the school and drifted before joining the Marines in 1947. At the age of 12 McQueen moved with his mother to Los Angeles. When he was 14, his mother sent him to a reformatory school.

He was raised in Slater, Missouri by his uncle, where his mother left him. He never knew his father, who abandoned his wife and child shortly after McQueen was born. He was born Terence Steven McQueen in Beech Grove, Indiana. Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930–November 7, 1980) was an American movie actor.

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). Never Love a Stranger (1958). The Blob (1958). Never So Few (1959).

Louis Bank Robbery (1960). The Great St. The Magnificent Seven (1960). The Honeymoon Machine (1961).