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McQueen's first film role under Elkins' management was a bit part in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), directed by Robert Wise and starring Paul Newman. McQueen was subsequently hired for the films The Blob (his first leading role), Never Love a Stranger , and The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959).
McQueen's performance earned him his fourth and final Golden Globe Award nomination in the Best Actor category. [35] He then starred alongside Paul Newman as a SFFD chief in the disaster drama The Towering Inferno (1974). [36] McQueen received $12 million for acting in the film, making him the highest-paid actor in the world up to that point.
Additionally, Paul Newman's son, Scott, played the acrophobic fireman afraid to rappel down the elevator shaft. Lead actors Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were each paid $1 million. [21] Although famed for his dancing and singing in musical movies, Fred Astaire received his only Oscar nomination for this film. [22]
The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film directed by Norman Jewison and written by Alan Trustman. It stars Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke and Jack Weston. In the film, Vicki Anderson (Dunaway) is hired to investigate the culprits of a multi-million dollar bank heist, orchestrated by Thomas Crown (McQueen).
I spoke with Knopf editor-at-large Peter Gethers, who will be editing the yet-to-be-titled memoir, and we agreed that Newman, Steve McQueen and Sidney Poitier are the most charismatic actors in ...
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, racing car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian ...
Steve McQueen had been encouraging his publicist David Foster to enter the film industry as a producer for years. [5] His first attempt was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with McQueen starring alongside Paul Newman, but 20th Century Fox, particularly its president, Richard D. Zanuck, did not want Foster as
“Paul Walker has been compared to a modern-day Steve McQueen, who lived his passion for racing in every aspect of his life,” chairman and CEO of the auction company, Barrett-Jackson, Craig ...