Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting — and the woman who would be with him for most of his meteoric career. He was Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's highest paid stars — and one of its most difficult, most rebellious and, when he wished, most charming.
Acting
McQueen's own footage reveals the performance of a lifetime.
Direction
Feldman lets contradictions breathe — no hagiography here.
Director
Gene Feldman
Steve McQueen
Self (archive footage)
Neile Adams
Self
Ralph Bellamy
Self (archive footage)
Joan Blondell
Self (archive footage)
Horst Buchholz
Self (archive footage)
Cab Calloway
Self (archive footage)
James Coburn
Narrator
Pat Crowley
Self (archive footage)
Charles Durning
Self (archive footage)
Bud Ekins
Self
Don Gordon
Self
Kathryn Harrold
Self (archive footage)
Norman Jewison
Self
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released just ten years after McQueen's death, making it one of the earliest unvarnished docs on a Hollywood icon — most contemporaries were still in protect-the-legacy mode.
McQueen's 'reform school to Marines to Method actor' pipeline essentially invented the modern template for 'authentic' masculinity in Hollywood — which every troubled leading man has been copying since.
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