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Terence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor. Called "The King of Cool", his "anti-hero" persona, developed at the height of the Counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in ''The Sand Pebbles''. His other popular films include ''The Cincinnati Kid'', ''The Thomas Crown Affair'', ''Bullitt'', ''The Getaway'', and ''Papillon'', as well as the all-star ensemble films ''The Magnificent Seven'', ''The Great Escape'', and ''The Towering Inferno''. In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world, although he did not act in films again for four years. McQueen was combative with directors and producers, but his popularity placed him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries. ==Early life== Terence Steven McQueen was born on March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana.〔〔Obituary ''Variety'', November 12, 1980.〕 His father, William Terence McQueen, a stunt pilot for a barnstorming flying circus, left McQueen's mother, Julia Ann (née Crawford), six months after meeting her.〔 Julia was allegedly an alcoholic and sometime prostitute.〔Marc Eliot ''Steve McQueen: A Biography'' Crown Publishing Group 2011; ISBN 978-0-307-45323-5〕〔 Unable to cope with caring for a small child, she left him with her parents (Victor and Lillian) in Slater, Missouri, in 1933. Shortly thereafter, as the Great Depression set in, McQueen and his grandparents moved in with Lillian's brother Claude, at his farm in Slater.〔 McQueen was raised as a Catholic. McQueen expressed having good memories of living at his Uncle Claude's farm. In recalling him, McQueen stated: "He was a very good man, very strong, very fair. I learned a lot from him."〔 On McQueen's fourth birthday, Claude gave him a red tricycle, which McQueen later said started his interest in racing.〔 At age 8, he was taken home by his mother and lived with her and her new husband in Indianapolis. McQueen retained a special memory of leaving the farm: "The day I left the farm Uncle Claude gave me a personal going-away present; a gold pocket watch, with an inscription inside the case." The inscription read: "To Steve – who has been a son to me." McQueen, who was dyslexic and partially deaf due to a childhood ear infection,〔 did not adjust well to his new life. His new stepfather beat him so badly that at the age of nine, McQueen left home to live on the streets.〔 Not long after, he was running with a street gang and committing acts of petty crime.〔 Unable to control McQueen's behavior, his mother sent him back to Slater. When McQueen was 12, Julia wrote to Claude asking that McQueen be returned to her again, to live in her new home in Los Angeles, California. Julia, whose second marriage had ended in divorce, had married a third time. By McQueen's own account, his new stepfather and he "locked horns immediately."〔 McQueen recalls him being "A prime son of a bitch" who was not averse to using his fists on McQueen and his mother.〔 As McQueen began to rebel again, he was sent back to live with Claude a final time. At age 14, McQueen left Claude's farm without saying goodbye and joined a circus for a short time,〔 then drifted back to his mother and stepfather in Los Angeles, resuming his life as a gang member and petty criminal. McQueen was caught stealing hubcaps by police, who handed him over to his stepfather, who beat him severely, ending the fight by throwing McQueen down a flight of stairs. McQueen looked up at his stepfather and said, "You lay your stinkin' hands on me again and I swear, I'll kill ya."〔 After the incident, McQueen's stepfather convinced his mother to sign a court order stating that McQueen was incorrigible, remanding him to the California Junior Boys Republic in Chino.〔 Here, McQueen began to change and mature. He was not popular with the other boys at first: "Say the boys had a chance once a month to load into a bus and go into town to see a movie. And they lost out because one guy in the bungalow didn't get his work done right. Well, you can pretty well guess they're gonna have something to say about that. I paid my dues with the other fellows quite a few times. I got my lumps, no doubt about it. The other guys in the bungalow had ways of paying you back for interfering with their well-being." Ultimately, McQueen became a role model when he was elected to the Boys Council, a group who set the rules and regulations governing the boys' lives.〔 He eventually left Boys Republic at 16. When he later became famous, he regularly returned to talk to the boys and retained a lifelong association. At 16, McQueen left Chino and returned to his mother, now living in Greenwich Village, New York. He then met two sailors from the Merchant Marine and volunteered to serve on a ship bound for the Dominican Republic.〔 Once there, he abandoned his new post, eventually being employed as a "towel boy" in a brothel.〔 Afterwards, McQueen made his way to Texas, and drifted from job to job. He worked as an oil rigger, a trinket salesman in a carnival, and a lumberjack. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve McQueen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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