Steve McQueen: (Jerry Skinner Documentary)

Terrence Steve McQueen the king of cool was born in beach Grove Indiana on the 24th of March 1930 Stephen Queens childhood will affect him and his attitude towards others for the rest of his life growing up as a neglected and sometimes abused youngster he would always search for the love that he felt was lacking in his childhood Steve's father Terence William McQueen left Steve and his mother at Steve's birth never to look back it's believed that his father moved from Indiana back to California and drifted most of his life from job to job sometimes even changing his name - William Terence so that he couldn't be found Terence William a queen died on November the 11th nineteen and fifty-eight of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 51 in Los Angeles County without ever acknowledging his son Steve McQueen's mother Julian Crawford McQueen didn't fare much better she had a drinking problem and married abusive men especially towards her young son and in 1933 Julian sent Steve to slater Missouri to a farm to live with his great uncle Claude Tomlinson Julian would appear into Steve's life on and off through the years McQueen would look back on this time that he spent on the farm and acts later with fundis in 1944 when Steve McQueen was 14 years old Julian had married her third husband and was living in Los Angeles she sent for her son Steve was soon running around with gangs and getting into minor trouble there was also trouble with his stepfather ending in a fight where he throwed Steve down the stairs and then pressured Jillian to replace Steve in a California reformed Scoob the junior boys republic in Chino Hills California he was there for two years at first he was resentful for being placed there even tried several times to escape eventually his attitude began to change the security and day-to-day routine work well for McQueen and he began to fit in he developed a relationship that would last through the years even coming back to the facility to help troubled youngsters he would often bring them needed supplies after leaving the institution he worked odd jobs for a short time and in 1947 at the age of 17 Steve joins the Marine Corps in the Corps he started off just like he did at the juvenile facility he was busted several times to begin with once for being with a girl and not returning from leave on time by the time his enlistment was up he had straightened up and left the court and in 1950 with an honorable discharge after leaving the Marines he went to New York where his mother was living after a few odd jobs a friend suggested acting school the GI bill would pay for it and it would be a good way he thought to meet curls this decision would change McQueen's life he found he liked acting and began taking it serious for the next few years he performed off-broadway plays and in 1955 Steve landed a role on Broadway called a hat full of rain in the next year in 1956 Steve needs actress Neely Adams now Neely was already an established actress and dancer not long after meeting Steve Neely went to California to audition for a movie they had only known one another for four months when he told her that he was coming to California to make an honest woman out of her and she said she had to ask someone what that meant an honest woman no November the second 1956 Steve McQueen and Neely Adams were married in San Clemente California Neely Adams was born Ruby Salvador Neely Adams in Manila the Philippines as a young girl she was left with relatives and was incarcerated for 18 months by the Japanese during World War two she was wounded by shrapnel during the reoccupation of u.s. troops and after the war her mother come back got her and brought her to the United States she attended the New York acting school and became a dancer and actress Neely was determined to help Steve's career that same year Steve got a bit part in someone up there likes me that starred Paul Newman and two years later in 1958 Steve's career got a boost when he landed a starring role in The Blob that same year Neely as a jet hit the 28 year-old McQueen land a starring role on television as Josh Randall in wanted dead or alive the series on CBS lasted until 1961 making Steve McQueen a major star while starring on wanted dead or alive Steve and Neely's daughters born Terry and Leslie McQueen was born June of 5th 1959 she will live to support and help her dead Steve McQueen here in his bout with cancer Terry will succumb to an early death herself after a liver transplant operation her body produced too much iron in the blood destroying her liver Terry McQueen will pass away on March the 19th 1998 she's buried at the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles Terry was 38 years old in 1960 McQueen started along with James Coburn and Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn and Yul Brynner in the Magnificent Seven that same year his son Chad was born December 28 19 and 60 Chad will also become an actor in 1963 Steve will star again with James Coburn and Charles Bronson along with James Garner in the Great Escape McQueen gets a chance to show his motorcycle racing skills which he enjoyed however during the motorcycle Escape scene McQueen's friend and stuntman bud Ekins actually made the famous jump Steve told his later on so that his friend could receive the credit that he deserved and in 1965 Steve's mother Julianne dies at cedars-sinai hospital in Los Angeles from a sibrel hemorrhage she was 55 years old Steve was heartbroken for much that needed to been said to his mother went unsaid in 1966 McQueen earned an Academy Award nomination for his part in the sand pebbles now this is Steve in Neely's home at 27 Oak bunt Drive in Brentwood while showing his home to a friend he once said mmm not bad for an offering with no education huh in 19 and 69 August the 9th Steve McQueen was planning on attending a party at 1 0-0 5o Cielo Drive just north of Beverly Hills and Benedict Canyon it was to be at the home of Sharon Tate all the way to the party McQueen meets a young woman and decides to spend the night with her instead of attend a party this most likely saved his life as all who attended was killed by the Manson family in 1971 at the age of 41 he starred in junior Bonner on the 26th of April 1972 Steve McQueen and Neely Adams McQueen were divorced even though they were divorced strangely enough their love and relationship lasted until his death it seems that Steve McQueen sped his entire life trying to prove to himself that he was loved the lack of love from his mother and dead that he experienced as a youngster seemed to affect his relationship with others his competition with men if it was on the racetrack or competing for an acting part it was not enough for a woman to love him she had to constantly prove her love by accepting anything that he did eventually it destroyed the relationships on the other hand Steve was a good father he seemed to be determined to be the dead that he didn't have nearly stated that even when her and Steve's relationship was rocky he was always a good father to their children Steve McQueen had made a racing movie that was very close to his heart call LeMans between once said he didn't know if he was an actor trying to be a race driver or if he was a race driver trying to act although it was considered to be one of the best racing movies made by race drivers the movie lost money and in 1973 McQueen made two movies that restored his career Papillon I considered to be one of his best movies with Dustin Hoffman now Hoffman was paid one-and-a-half million for this movie and McQueen was paid two million for his performance his next movie was the getaway with Ali MacGraw now Annie had just become a star from the movie love story with Ryan O'Neal at the time she was married to her second husband Robert Evans who was an actor and producer a romance soon developed between the stars causing strife on the set but on July the 13th 1973 in Cheyenne Wyoming Alibag row and Steve McQueen were married and they said that Steve did not like her acting and wanted her to be a housewife the next year McQueen starred with Paul Newman in the tower in infernal now after that was finished and twenty six films behind him he became the highest-paid star in the world he decided that he had had enough for the next four years mcqueen refused to read a script or even discuss a movie he spent his time riding motorcycles race car surfing with his kids and at the age of 44 McQueen was enjoying himself McGraw at the age of 35 was tired of playing housewife and wanted to get back to making these the two were divorced in 1978 in 1979 Steve returned to acting first he plays Tom Horn about a real-life Western hired gun now during filming of Tom Horne Steve was not feeling his usual self then while FEMEN his next movie the hunter on location in Chicago Steve became unusually tired he had night sweats and he was out of breath alot by this time Steve had met and was living with 25 year old model Barbara minty and on their way and returned back to California Steve went to a local doctor in Santa Paula and from an x-ray he discovered spots on his lungs and recommended that cedars-sinai hospital for further tests they diagnosed miss ophelia a form of lung cancer caused from breathing asbestos spores or dust then for Barbara there would be no treatment now the doctors Barbara said lied to her and said he had a few years more to live but they secretly told Steve that it was only a few months the doctors told him that all they could do is enjoy the time that he had left treatment would be of no value after he was diagnosed and three years after they had first met Steve McQueen and Barbara minty married on January the 16 19 and 80 she was the sport that Steve needed Barbara's stated that he loved his children so much that he tried to keep it from him as long as he could because he didn't want them hurt Steve made the decision to try alternate medicine he thought what could it hurt he was dying anyway so on July 2 31st 1980 Steven barber checked into a back gun clinic at the Plaza Saint Marie for treatment not authorized in the United States after a month clinical doctor said telling the Mexican newspapers that he would soon be well Steve returned to LA and cedar cyanide with a large mass in his abdominal and in severe pain doctors refused to operate and said his heart was too weak he wouldn't survive the operation Steve McQueen was in so much pain he was willing to try almost anything he located a clinic in Juarez Mexico that was willing to operate no November the sixth nineteen and eighty with his wife Barbara and his two children present he checked into the Santa Rosa clinic under the name of Sam Shepard it had been 11 months after he was first diagnosed with cancer Steve McQueen passed away only a few hours after the operation on November the 7th nineteen and eighty his stars on a Hollywood Walk of Fame located on the south side of the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard at his own request the body was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific using a biplane that he loves so much it has been reported that Steve left two hundred thousand dollars to the boys republic juvenile Institute Steve McQueen was fifty years old you you

Channel: Jerry Skinner

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Rating: 4.7915964 out of 5

Keywords: Steve Mcqueen, Neile Adams, Ali Mcgraw, Papillon

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Length: 18min 14sec (1094 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 10 2016