# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-mcqueen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:01.530Z

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name: "Steve McQueen"
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description: "He drove fast, fought slow, and turned stillness into menace. McQueen's antihero cool made him the highest-paid movie star on earth by 1974—then he walked away for four years, came back briefly, and died at fifty chasing a last-chance surgery in Mexico."
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birthDate: "1930-03-24"
deathDate: "1980-11-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Terrence Stephen McQueen was born March 24, 1930, and by the late 1950s had carved a niche playing men who didn't explain themselves. The Blob in 1958 gave way to The Magnificent Seven in 1960 and The Great Escape in 1963, the latter earning him a Moscow International Film Festival Award. The Sand Pebbles in 1966 brought an Academy Award nomination; Bullitt in 1968 and The Getaway in 1972 cemented the archetype. He became the world's highest-paid actor in 1974 after The Towering Inferno, then vanished from screens for four years—combative with directors, unbending in his terms. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he flew to Mexico in October 1980 for surgery U.S. doctors had refused to attempt. He checked into a Ciudad Juárez hospital under a fake name, went under the knife, and died of a heart attack hours later on November 7, 1980.