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Steve McQueen

The Second Great Escape!

About Me



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He was a Rebel, an Outsider, and The King of Cool, but beneath the bad boy image lay a heart of gold, as Steve McQueen supported needy children all over the world.
While in Taiwan in 1966 filming The Sand Pebbles, Steve and his first wife Neile came across an orphanage for young girls (most of whom were prostitutes). It was run by a catholic priest called Edward Wojniak. Steve donated $12,500 then and there, and continued to support the mission until Wojniak died in the late 1970's.
Over the years Steve constantly visited the boys home (Boys Republic) which he himself had spent time in while growing up.
Each year in the holiday seasons (when their spirits could be lowest because they had no family to visit them) he appeared with Christmas toys, Easter baskets and Thanksgiving turkeys. So these boys without a family of their own got to see a real movie star each Christmas and on other festive occasions. It wasn't just a quick publicity walkthrough either. Steve would actually just sit with them and talk for long periods of time. On one occasion, when he heard that two teenage boys had been sent to an adult prison, he offered to pay for them to be sent to a less severe BOYS institution. Over the years Steve donated large amounts of money to Boys Republic.
He said, "Somewhere, right now, there are kids going through what I went through. Maybe if they know I survived, they can find hope. I can't promise they'll ever forget what happened to them. But if they hold out, they'll get through okay and learn to live with the bad memories...and still learn to love."
During the filming of Le Mans in 1970, Steve made a brief stopover in London, where he toured the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, moving from bed to bed, talking with each child. At this time he also arranged an auction of one of his antique guns, with all the proceeds going to the French Childrens Fund for orphans.
Los Angeles Times columnist Joyce Haber wrote an article on Steve in 1971, in which she reported: "A few seasons ago the owners of Four Oakes, a local restaurant, invited fifty black orphans for a free Thanksgiving Day dinner. They also invited several celebrities. McQueen arrived promptly on his cycle. He was the only star to show. I call that the act of a good man".
When Nicaragua was devastated by a massive earthquake in the early 1970's he bought $50,000 worth of food and medical supplies and had it flown in to the victims.
While filming The Hunter in 1979, Steve was so struck by the poverty in some of the areas they were filming in that he asked close friend Pat Johnson to go down to the local catholic church and ask the priest what he (McQueen) could do to help. The priest made a list, and Steve pulled out a check book and paid for it all. According to Johnson it was a large amount of money. Steve also gave his stuntman and friend Lauren Janes some money, and sent him out to buy 100 baseballs, mitts and bats, and 100 footballs, and had him put them in a local field for all the kids to find. According to Janes, he did that many times, in many different areas.
Steve would eat with and talk to all the cast and crew on his films, and while talking to one of the extras on The Hunter (a young 15 year old girl named Karen) he discovered that her mother was in hospital and dying of alcoholic poisoning. Steve went to the hospital with her to meet her mother (who was a big fan). "What can I do to help"?, he asked. "All my life I wanted my daughter to go to school. I could die a happy woman knowing my daughter had a way out of this slum", was her reply. Steve and his third wife Barbara took 15 year old Karen in, eventually enrolling her in a private boarding school close to where they lived, so that she could come and spend weekends with them. That young girl went from the ghetto to studying to become a veterinarian. She still remembers the McQueen's with a great deal of love.
Almost all of these things he did anonymously, and they were only made public after his death.
you can't fool me with a shiny Roller!
and leather freaking gloves! I can
get a lot of bootie for the kids
in the back of this truck!

My Interests

Bikes.. Cars.. and more Bikes! oh.. and my old baseball and glove! Ca chunk.. Ca chunk.. Ca chunk..

I'd like to meet:

Emm this isn't easy? as I've met just about every great person to ever live or die.. All of them were children living in poverty! and I have also now met "God" who is a realy cool dude and loves The Great Escape! he tells me that JC was his first true story and feature length production!!!!

ok Newman you asked for it!

Mr President I think your a bastard!
you have Fucked up the world!

eem should I give up smoking?
no bollocks to the sythem!

One more for the kids..

I know Hollywood will hate me for
this but I'm giving all this dosh away
to needy children!

Music:



Now then? How can I piss the Hollwood producers off?

Ha ha I got it!!!

Movies:

Somebody Up There Likes Me (MGM, 1956) --Fido (very small part)
Never Love A Stranger (Allied Artists, 1958)-- Martin Cabel
The Blob (Paramount, 1958) --Steve Andrews
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (UA, 1958) -- George Fowler.
Never So Few (MGM, 1959)--Sgt. Bill Ringa
The Magnificent Seven (UA, 1960)--Vin
The Honeymoon Machine (MGM, 1961) -- Lt. Fergie Howard
Hell Is For Heroes (Paramount, 1962) Reese
The War Lover (Columbia, 1962) Buzz Rickson
The Great Escape (UA, 1963) Virgil Hilts
Soldier In The Rain (Allied Artists, 1963) Sgt. Eustis Clay
Love With The Proper Stranger (Paramount, 1963) Rocky Papasano
Baby, The Rain Must Fall (Columbia, 1965) Henry Thomas
The Cincinnati Kid (MGM, 1965) Eric Stoner
Nevada Smith (Paramount, 1966) Max Sand
The Sand Pebbles (20th Century Fox, 1966) Jake Holman
The Thomas Crown Affair (UA, 1968) Thomas Crown
Bullitt (Warner Brothers, 1968) Lt. Frank Bullitt
The Reivers (Cinema Center/Ntnl General, 1969) Boon Hogganbeck
Le Mans (Cinema Center/ Ntnl General, 1971) Michael Delaney
On Any Sunday (Cinema 5, 1971) Appears in this documentary racing motorcycles
On Any Sunday Revisited (2000)
Junior Bonner (ABC-Cinerama, 1972) Junior Bonner
The Getaway (National General, 1972) Doc McCoy
Papillon (Allied Artists, 1973) Papillon
The Towering Inferno (20th Century Fox, WB, 1974) Michael O'Hallorhan
An Enemy Of The People (Warner Brothers, 1978) Thomas Stockman.
Tom Horn (Warner Brothers, 1980) Tom Horn
The Hunter (Paramount, 1980) Ralph Thorson
I know smoking kills but ignorance, Hedonism and fame has killed billions more!

Television:

We dont need TV in heaven.. and if it was here I'd leave right now!

emm maybe next time?

Books:

The Bible.. well I have to keep him happy don't I, and he does love my films in return! you wanna see the size of the cinema screen in this joint and its all free including the ice cream!!!!

See.. you never know whats round the corner?

Heroes:

Yep you guessed it! The Old Man..

My Blog

My early years..

Steve McQueen was the prototypical example of a new sort of movie star which emerged in the 1950s and would come to dominate the screen in the 1960s and '70s a cool, remote loner who knew how to use h...
Posted by Steve McQueen on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:39:00 PST

If there is a Heaven it was made for Steve McQueen!

I had to do it didn't I? this is my homarge to the greatest actor that ever lived! Steve McQueen! And starred in my all time favourite film "The Great Escape."The master off cool, a lot of Hollywood a...
Posted by Steve McQueen on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:02:00 PST