At 29, McQueen got a significant break when Frank Sinatra removed Sammy Davis, Jr., from the film Never So Few after Davis supposedly made some mildly negative remarks about Sinatra in a radio interview, and Davis's role went to McQueen.

Robinson's acting career was subsequently bolstered by notable roles in 1959's A Hole in the Head opposite Frank Sinatra and The Cincinnati Kid ( 1965 ), which showcased Robinson alongside Steve McQueen.

Costner stated that he based Frank Farmer on Steve McQueen ; even cutting his hair like McQueen ( who had died 12 years earlier ).

Burnett worked with many of the greats in acting and directing, including Raoul Walsh, John Huston, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray, Douglas Sirk, and Michael Cimino, John Wayne ( The Dark Command ), Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Paul Muni, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood.

The program's first regular host was Ken Cavanagh, with reports from CTV National News journalists such as Doug Johnson ( journalist ) and Frank Drea, who later became a Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario and Trina McQueen, later president of CTV.

In 2007, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its brand, Baracuta released three special edition G9 jackets with quotes by Presley, Steve McQueen and Frank Sinatra — all of them frequent wearers of the Harrington — printed on the lining.

" Often exciting, often insane, film work provided opportunity to work with some interesting and unique people — Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, William Holden, Steve McQueen, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, and others, on seventeen major pictures.

Dan Aykroyd, Mama Cass, John Kay, John Cassavetes, Gower Champion, Marge Champion Joe Cocker, Kevin Costner, Wes Craven, Ellen DeGeneres, Janice Dickinson, Richard Dreyfuss, Bud Ekins, Ava Gardner, Betty Garrett, George Harrison, Robert Hays, Rob Lowe, Melissa Mathison, Matthew McConnaughey, Steve McQueen, Alex Murray, Ricky Nelson, Larry Parks, Anthony Perkins, Chris Pontius, Julia Roberts, Henry Rollins, Melody Rogers, Telly Savalas, Ryan Seacrest, Doc Severinsen, Pauley Shore, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Starr, Kiefer Sutherland, Rudy Vallee, Larry Storch, Cindy Williams, Guy Williams, Bruce Willis, Adam Sandler, Frank Zappa, Renée Zellweger, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Ian Ziering are just a few celebrities in the music and movie industry that lived, worked, and played in Nichols Canyon over the years.

* Committee: Peter McGauley, Alan Ramsay, Tommy Ward, Frank Fleming, Scott Wilkinson, Jamie McQueen & Craig Thomson

Steve McQueen was also considered, but he did not want to do another police film after Bullitt and, as with Newman, his fee would have exceeded the movie's budget.

To his dismay, McQueen was never able to own the legendary Ford Mustang GT 390 that he drove in Bullitt, which featured a highly modified drivetrain that suited McQueen's driving style.

Biographer Marc Eliot wrote that McQueen had an affair with his Bullitt co-star Jacqueline Bisset, although Bisset has not confirmed this.

He kept the car at his Beverly Hills-area home, where it was often serviced by Max Balchowsky, who also did the suspension and frame modifications on those Mustang GTs used in the filming of McQueen ’ s " Bullitt.

The movie launched Yates ' Hollywood career after it attracted the interest of Steve McQueen who got the British director to make his next feature, Bullitt.

Duvall has a small part as a cab driver who ferries McQueen around just before the chase scene in the film Bullitt ( 1969 ).

* The climax of the Steve McQueen movie Bullitt was filmed at the airport.

McQueen refused to make another “ cop movie ” after Bullitt ( 1968 ).

This chase scene has many similarities with the famous chase in the Steve McQueen film Bullitt.

The original UK television advertisement used clips from the movie Bullitt and cut McQueen into the modern setting of a Puma in San Francisco.

Much of the famous car chase sequence in the 1968 thriller Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen ( whose character lived in Nob Hill on Taylor and Clay Street entry suggested Russian Hill for the character's abode, but it is squarely in the Nob Hill neighborhood ), were filmed on Russian Hill, notably the scenes on Taylor Street.

* Bullitt, a 1968 action film starring Steve McQueen

He also performed some stunts for Steve McQueen in Bullitt, especially during the film's famous car chase.

That same year, Renella played Johnny Ross, a Mafia informant scheduled to testify in San Francisco, in Bullitt starring Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset.

These creative aspects attracted the attention of Steve McQueen who hired director Peter Yates to direct Bullitt.

McQueen is mentioned first in the film's trailers.

After Never So Few, the film's director John Sturges cast McQueen in his next movie, promising to " give him the camera.

Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's widely noted motorcycle leap, which was instead done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast Bud Ekins, who resembled McQueen from a distance.

Although McQueen did do the driving that appeared in closeup, this was only about 10 % of what is seen in the film's car chase.

McQueen and McGraw began an affair during the film's production.

After the film's second preview screening, McQueen was unhappy with the music and used his clout to hire Quincy Jones to rescore the film.

Technically, McQueen has top billing and is mentioned first in the film's trailers ; however, at the end of the movie, as the cast's names roll from the bottom of the screen, Newman's name is fully visible first, something McQueen apparently did not catch.

Written by Dennis Shryack and Michal Butler, Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand were originally cast as the film's stars.

A still picture of the gesture was recorded by photographer Nigel Snowdon and has become an iconic image of both McQueen and the film.

The 917 is one of the most iconic sports racing cars of all time, largely for its high speeds and high power outputs, and was made into a movie star by Steve McQueen in his 1971 film Le Mans.

The crime drama, starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw was replete with explosions, car chases and intense shootouts.

According to director John Frankenheimer and actor James Garner in bonus interviews for the DVD of the film Grand Prix, McQueen was Frankenheimer's first choice for the lead role of American Formula One race car driver Pete Aron.

McQueen considered becoming a professional race car driver.

BMC works entries recorded class wins at Sebring, with such drivers as Stirling Moss, Bruce McLaren and Steve McQueen taking the wheel, as well as the Targa Florio and Mugello sports car races.

* The car number of Lightning McQueen ( voiced by Owen Wilson and the main character in Disney / Pixar's Cars ).

* Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen, described by John Lasseter in the LA Times as " A hybrid between a stock car and a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer.

In the 1970 Sebring 12-hour race, McQueen himself and partner Peter Revson were relegated to second place after Mario Andretti took over the car of Nino Vaccarella / Ignazio Giunti.

* The Hunter ( 1980 ), " Papa " Thorson ( Steve McQueen ) pursues a suspect in a car chase through the parking garage.

McQueen liked the car very much, and eventually managed to acquire one for himself.