Steve McQueen died today 1980…

I think Women were attracted to him because he was the Rebel bad boy type like James Dean..i really don’t think he was that great an actor

He almost spent time with my wife, but she turned him down. 😉

Steve was a legend, he spent time in Fleet Hampshire, with the designer of his bike , Ken Heanes. 😉

Thanks mate. 😀 Gonna buy it from Amazon. Love those old films.

Steve McQueen Biography, etc
http://www.allmovie.com/artist/steve-mcqueen-48038/bio

I liked “The Great Escape”. 🙂

Here you go: The Great Escape http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/

I liked “The Great Escape”. 🙂

The First Mustang Bullitt Club of Germany

If you liked the film “Bullitt” this is the website for you. http://www.ponysite.de/bullitt.htm :cool::cool:

I believe that McQueen was forever arguing with producers of his films about the amount of stunt work he wanted to do ( all of it) and the amount the insurers would countenance.

I too would rather imagine him ageing as Eastwood has…………:)

The stuntman was Bud Ekins a good friend of McQueens. The rider who was knocked of his bike by hitting the wire was Steve Mcqueen so in essence he nicked the bike off himself and was then chasing himself as he also played a German motorcyclist in pursuit. Ekins later doubled for McQueen in Bullitt and did most of the riding in the TV series CHiPs according to IMDb

Martin

Pretty neat on a motorcycle too, or was that a stuntman? 😀

The jump as a stuntman (a good friend of McQueen’s) the rest of the motorcycle work was his…or at least as much as he could get by the film’s insurance company.

BTW: the jump bike was a Triumph.

He’d be 80 today, wonder what he’d been like?
Hopefully, more like the gracefully ageing Clint Eastwood and not an unrecognizable (and late) Tony Curtiss.

Pretty neat on a motorcycle too, or was that a stuntman? 😀

Undoubtedly the coolest Ford Puma driver ever. 🙂

Moggy

RIP to a great man.