He worked with Elvis Presley and Dolores del Río in Flaming Star ( 1960 ), with Steve McQueen in Hell Is for Heroes and Lee Marvin in the influential The Killers ( 1964 ) before directing a series of five films with Clint Eastwood that were commercially successful in addition to being well received by critics.

McQueen received only $ 3, 000 for this film ; he had turned down an offer for a smaller up-front sum with 10 percent of the profits because he did not think the movie would make any money and he needed the money immediately to pay for food and rent ; it ended up grossing $ 4 million.

Asleep at the Wheel received 6 Austin Music Awards for their efforts in 2007 including Band of the Year, Songwriter of the Year ( Benson ), Country Band of the Year, Record Producer of the Year ( Benson ), Male Vocals of the Year ( Benson ) and Acoustic Guitar Player of the Year ( McQueen ).

Weld appeared with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen in the 1963 comedy Soldier in the Rain ; her performance was well received, but the film was only a minor success.

Among the child actors cast as the Beardsley and North children in the film, several went on to greater success, including Tim Matheson ( billed here as Tim Matthieson ) who went on to play the character Otter in the more adult oriented comedy Animal House, Morgan Brittany ( billed here as Suzanne Cupito ) appeared in many episodes of Dallas, Mitch Vogel appeared in " The Reivers " with Steve McQueen for which Vogel received a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor nomination in 1970 and Tracy Nelson, daughter of actor / musician Ricky Nelson who eventually starred in the series Father Dowling Mysteries beside Tom Bosley who portrayed the doctor in this movie.

Bibb's role as Brooke McQueen on the WB Network dramedy series Popular ( 1999 – 2001 ) brought her to the attention of a wider audience ; she received a Teen Choice Award for Television Choice Actress for the role.

The performance did earn McQueen the only Academy Award nomination of his career.

The Sand Pebbles was nominated for eight Academy Awards, but failed to win any: Best Picture for Robert Wise, Best Actor for Steve McQueen, Best Supporting Actor for Mako, Best Art Direction / Set Decoration-Color, Best Cinematography-Color, Best Film Editing, Best Sound ( James Corcoran ) and Best Original Music Score for Jerry Goldsmith.

McQueen also earned his only Academy Award nomination in 1966 for his role as an engine room sailor in The Sand Pebbles, in which he starred opposite Richard Attenborough and Candice Bergen.

In 1979 McQueen won a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance as Aunt Thelma, a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special episode " The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody.

She worked with Steve McQueen in the 1966 western drama film Nevada Smith, was nominated for a Laurel Award for her starring performance in the comedy If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium opposite Ian McShane, and co-starred with James Garner in a pair of films, the drama Mister Buddwing and the western comedy Support Your Local Gunfighter.

Gert McQueen, Elder and Redesman of the Ring of Troth, was successful in lobbying the U. S. Army Chaplain ’ s Corps to adopt guidelines for recognizing heathen religions and Theodish belief in particular.

McQueen played Doc McCoy, an imprisoned mastermind robber whose wife Carol ( Ali MacGraw ) conspires for his release on the condition they rob a bank in Texas.

In 1964, Tate made a screen test for Sam Peckinpah opposite Steve McQueen for the film The Cincinnati Kid.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

The Sound of Music was an interim film for Wise, produced to mollify the studio while he developed the difficult film The Sand Pebbles, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough and Candice Bergen.

The video, which featured Gaga in Alexander McQueen " armadillo " shoes, a clinical bath house and being sold in a slave auction, was beaten later in the mid-year by the video for Justin Bieber's song " Baby ", which had over 660 million views by later 2011.

Afterwards, Steve McQueen did not do any film work for about a year due to exhaustion, saying that whatever sins that he had committed in his life had been paid for when he made The Sand Pebbles.

His father, William Terence McQueen, a stunt pilot for a barnstorming flying circus, abandoned McQueen's mother six months after first meeting her.

At age 14, McQueen left Claude's farm without saying goodbye and joined a circus for a short time, after which he slowly drifted back to his mother and stepfather in Los Angeles, and resumed his life as a gang member and petty criminal.

In late 1955, at the age of 25, McQueen left New York and headed for California, where he moved into a house on Vestal Avenue in the Echo Park area and began seeking acting jobs in Hollywood.

When McQueen appeared in a two-part television presentation entitled The Defenders, Hollywood manager Hilly Elkins ( who managed McQueen's first wife, Neile ) took note of him and decided that B-movies would be a good place for the young actor to make his mark.

Then McQueen's manager, Elkins, successfully lobbied Vincent M. Fennelly, producer of the western series Trackdown, to have McQueen read for the part of bounty hunter Josh Randall in a Trackdown episode.

In the interviews included in the DVD release of " Wanted ", Trackdowns star Robert Culp claims credit for first bringing McQueen to Hollywood and landing him the part of Randall.

When Johnny Carson later tried to congratulate McQueen for the jump during a broadcast of The Tonight Show, McQueen said, " It wasn't me.

Willis ' acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.

She also starred in 1968 with Steve McQueen in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair ( and had a small role in the 1999 remake with the same title with Pierce Brosnan ).

McGann's breakthrough role was Give us a Break devised by Geoff McQueen who also created the long running ITV series, The Bill.

After several minor roles in productions including Peg o ' My Heart, The Member of the Wedding, and Two Fingers of Pride, McQueen landed his first film role in Somebody Up There Likes Me, directed by Robert Wise and starring Paul Newman.

McQueen was subsequently hired to appear in the films Never Love a Stranger, The Blob ( his first leading role ), and The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery.

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.

Sinatra saw something special in McQueen, and ensured that the young actor got plenty of good close-ups in a role that earned McQueen favorable reviews.

McQueen then went for a change of image, playing a debonair role as a wealthy executive in The Thomas Crown Affair with Faye Dunaway in 1968.

McQueen was offered the lead role in Breakfast at Tiffany's but was unable to accept due to his Wanted: Dead or Alive contract ( the role went to George Peppard ).

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.

Frankenheimer was unable to meet with McQueen to offer him the role and instead sent Edward Lewis, his business partner and the producer of Grand Prix.

McQueen and Lewis instantly clashed, the meeting was a disaster and the role instead went to Garner.

Before leaving, McQueen told Spielberg that he could not accept the role because he was unable to cry on cue.

Although McQueen was impressed with the script, he felt he was not specifically right for the role as he was unable to cry on cue.

Another notable role was " Yeller " in The Cincinnati Kid ( 1965 ), with Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret and Edward G. Robinson.

In the 1960s he starred in such films as The Children's Hour with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, The Thrill of It All and Move Over, Darling ( a remake of My Favorite Wife in which Garner played Cary Grant's role ), both with Doris Day, Boys ' Night Out with Kim Novak and Tony Randall ; The Great Escape with Steve McQueen, The Americanization of Emily with Julie Andrews, Duel at Diablo with Sidney Poitier, and The Art of Love with Dick Van Dyke.

* Butterfly McQueen, film actress, best known from role in Gone with the Wind

In 2006, Wilson provided the voice of Lightning McQueen in the Disney / Pixar film Cars, starred in You, Me and Dupree with Kate Hudson, and appeared with Stiller in Night at the Museum as Jedediah, the cowboy, an uncredited role.