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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, [5] featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) [4] was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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.
Newman later played an acrophobic firefighter in The Towering Inferno (1974), in which his father co-starred. [3] Although they had no dialog together because Scott's scenes were with Steve McQueen, both Newmans can be seen in the film's finale.
Don Gordon (born Donald Walter Guadagno; November 13, 1926 – April 24, 2017) [3] was an American film and television actor.His most notable film roles were those in which he appeared alongside his friend Steve McQueen: Bullitt (1968), Papillon (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974).
In London, late in 1940, the German bombs fall, erupting into an inferno of buildings gutted by glowing orange flame. People die right in their living rooms, seated in their armchairs.
Chad McQueen, the son of the late racing and acting legend Steve McQueen, has died in California. He was 63. The Karate Kidactor and race car driver died Wednesday, Sept. 11, in Palm Springs.
In 1974, Newman co-starred with Steve McQueen in John Guillermin's disaster film The Towering Inferno. Newman plays an architect stuck in a skyscraper he designed that catches fire. Newman was paid $1,000,000 plus a percentage of the gross, and he insisted he do his own stunts. The film was a success and its North American gross was $55,000,000 ...