Steve McQueen

. He died in Switzerland in 1983 of Motor Neurone Disease, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. He was honored in the 2002 Sheryl Crow song called "Steve McQueen". Late in life, he gained critical acclaim for his memoirs of his acting career, The Moon's A Balloon (1971) and Bring On the Empty Horses (1975). Prefab Sprout released an album called "Steve McQueen" in 1985. He won an Academy Award for his performance in Separate Tables (1958). 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. He resumed his career afterwards with roles such as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days and James Bond in the unofficial series spoof Casino Royale.

He was married to Barbara Minty in January 1980. During World War II he served in the British army, rising to the rank of colonel in the British Commandos and landing at Normandy. He married actress Ali McGraw in 1973 and divorced her in 1978. Arriving in Hollywood during the 1930s, he first worked as an extra in westerns, then had a walk-on part in the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty and progressed to leading man in MGM comedies such as Bachelor Mother (1939). McQueen was married to Neile Adams from 1957 until their divorce in 1972; from this marriage he had a son and a daughter. Niven often claimed that he was born in Kirriemuir in Scotland which he believed sounded more romantic than London. During his acting career he even seriously considered becoming a professional race car driver. After attending Stowe as a boy Niven trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which gave him the "officer and gentleman" bearing that was to be his trademark.

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 father died during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and his mother remarried Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt. McQueen was a motorcycle and race car enthusiast. He was born in London, England, the son of William Edward Graham Niven and Henrietta Julia de Gacher. After The Towering Inferno in 1974, McQueen did not return to film until 1978, when he played in An Enemy of the People. David Niven, born James David Graham Niven (March 1, 1910 - July 29, 1983), was an English actor who achieved the unusual distinction of success in both the British and the Hollywood film industry. 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. Tres Amores - 1934.

Before, he had already earned an Academy Award nomination for the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles. Without Regret - 1935. His breakthrough, however, came in 1963 with The Great Escape, and his fame peaked in 1968 with Bullitt. Splendor - 1935. Between 1958 and 1960 he gained recognition with the television series Wanted: Dead or Alive. A Feather in Her Hat - 1935. McQueen moved into film in 1956 with Somebody Up There Likes Me, securing his first lead role in the 1958 movie The Blob. Barbary Coast - 1935.

Bill to study at the Actors' Studio in New York, making his Broadway debut in 1955 in A Hatful of Rain. Mutiny on the Bounty (uncredited bit part) - 1935. In 1952, he took advantage of the G.I. Thank You, Jeeves - 1936. Soon McQueen left the school and drifted before joining the Marines in 1947. Dodsworth - 1936. 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. Beloved Enemy - 1936.

He was raised in Slater, Missouri by his uncle, where his mother left him. Rose-Marie - 1936. He never knew his father, who abandoned his wife and child shortly after McQueen was born. Palm Springs - 1936. He was born Terence Steven McQueen in Beech Grove, Indiana. The Charge of the Light Brigade - 1936. Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930–November 7, 1980) was an American movie actor. We Have Our Moments - 1937.

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). The Prisoner of Zenda - 1937. Never Love a Stranger (1958). Dinner at the Ritz - 1937. The Blob (1958). Three Blind Mice - 1938. Never So Few (1959). Four Men and a Prayer - 1938.

Louis Bank Robbery (1960). Bluebeard's Eighth Wife - 1938. The Great St. The Dawn Patrol - 1938. The Magnificent Seven (1960). Wuthering Heights - 1939. The Honeymoon Machine (1961). The Real Glory - 1939.