Steve McQueen

. In 1984, he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award as "Worst Actor" for his role in the abysmal Supergirl. He was honored in the 2002 Sheryl Crow song called "Steve McQueen". He is tied with Becket costar Richard Burton for most nominations for an acting Oscar (7) without winning. Prefab Sprout released an album called "Steve McQueen" in 1985. O'Toole also has the distinction of being the only actor ever nominated for Academy Awards for playing the same character in two different films; he played King Henry II in both 1964's Becket and 1968's The Lion in Winter. 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. O'Toole initially balked about accepting and wrote the academy a letter saying he was "still in the game" and would like more time to "win the lovely bugger outright." In the end, O'Toole relented and agreed to appear at the ceremony and pick up his Oscar.

He was married to Barbara Minty in January 1980. In 2003, the Academy bestowed upon him the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime achievements in film. He married actress Ali McGraw in 1973 and divorced her in 1978. After Lawrence of Arabia, O'Toole received six more nominations for the Best Actor Oscar but never won the award. McQueen was married to Neile Adams from 1957 until their divorce in 1972; from this marriage he had a son and a daughter. Severe illness related to his heavy drinking almost ended his life in the late 1970s, but he recovered and returned to work, although he found it harder to get in films, resulting in more work for television and occasional stage roles. During his acting career he even seriously considered becoming a professional race car driver. His subsequent film choices have ranged from superb to mediocre (with a couple of clinkers tossed in for good measure).

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. His performance introduced him to US audiences and earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. McQueen was a motorcycle and race car enthusiast. O'Toole's major break came when he was chosen to play Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), after Albert Finney turned down the role. After The Towering Inferno in 1974, McQueen did not return to film until 1978, when he played in An Enemy of the People. In 1958 he married actress Siân Phillips; they divorced in 1979. 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. He worked in theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his television debut in 1954 and a very minor film debut in 1959.

Before, he had already earned an Academy Award nomination for the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles. But after National Service he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1952-54) on a scholarship. His breakthrough, however, came in 1963 with The Great Escape, and his fame peaked in 1968 with Bullitt. He left school at an early age and became a journalist, working at the Yorkshire Evening News. Between 1958 and 1960 he gained recognition with the television series Wanted: Dead or Alive. He was born Peter Seamus O'Toole in County Galway, Ireland, and was raised in Leeds, England. McQueen moved into film in 1956 with Somebody Up There Likes Me, securing his first lead role in the 1958 movie The Blob. Peter O'Toole (born August 2, 1932) is a famous Irish film actor.

Bill to study at the Actors' Studio in New York, making his Broadway debut in 1955 in A Hatful of Rain. Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (1989). In 1952, he took advantage of the G.I. Troy (2004). Soon McQueen left the school and drifted before joining the Marines in 1947. Hitler: Rise of Evil (2003). 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. Phantoms (1998).

He was raised in Slater, Missouri by his uncle, where his mother left him. FairyTale: A True Story (1997). He never knew his father, who abandoned his wife and child shortly after McQueen was born. The Seventh Coin (1992). He was born Terence Steven McQueen in Beech Grove, Indiana. King Ralph (1991). Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930–November 7, 1980) was an American movie actor. Wings of Fame (1990).

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). High Spirits (1988). Never Love a Stranger (1958). The Last Emperor (1987). The Blob (1958). My Favorite Year (1982). Never So Few (1959). The Stunt Man (1980).

Louis Bank Robbery (1960). Caligula (1979). The Great St. Zulu Dawn (1979). The Magnificent Seven (1960). Power Play (1978). The Honeymoon Machine (1961). Rosebud (1975).

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Brotherly Love (1969). Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965). Chips (1969). The Cincinnati Kid (1965). Goodbye, Mr. Nevada Smith (1966). The Lion in Winter (1968).