How tall is steve mcqueen

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Anti-hero actor who starred in the action film Bullitt. His father was a stunt pilot for a flying circus who abandoned his mother after six months of dating. He was married three times and had two children. He competed in weekend motorcycle races to support himself while studying acting. Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States. Steve McQueen celebrates birthday on March 24 of every year. Steve McQueen Birthday Countdown 0 0 0.

Let's check it out! You can watch his best-acted movies Bullitt, the Sand Pebbles with the sound off and know exactly what emotions his character is feeling. He didn't like delivering dialogue and never did a role involving a lot of speaking, but no one could beat him for convincing acting without words.

Look for a little-known war movie he did called Hell if for Heroes, where he played a dangerous psychopath. He is absolutely bang-on. Then you can watch him in The Magnificent Seven, where he plays the most gentle and good-humoured gunsligher imaginable, and doe it well. They do generally look pretty similar, including proportionately. With Chuck at 5'8. I read he was wearing sneakers when arrested and was very friendly with the police.

I think it was simply an honest, accurate measurement. I once dated a girl whose mother was an extra in the movie "Junior Bonner". At that time, I was 5 foot, 9 inches. I responded by saying something like, "I thought he was around 5' 10" or 5' 11". She the mother said, "No way". I think standing straight, Steve was the 5'9. As I posted on Paul Newman's page, Steve appeared a bit taller and Newman on the other hand, I do believe was more a flat 5'9", maybe cm at most.

Similar height than Charles Bronson. Before his death he was in peak because still was young, he was 50 years old when he die. Steve was with footwear and a perfect cm.

That adds up with McQueen's 5'9. It was taken in when McQueen was 42 years old. He is clearly below 5'10". The shoes clearly give him at least an inch.

I mean, he's standing up against a police measuring wall! No debate. Under 5'9". McQueen is pretty well settled. He was measured at 5'9. You could argue feebly the measurement COULD have been in the shoes, but that doesn't make sense since his wife said he was 5' He looked slightly taller than Paul Newman who looked about 5'10" in shoes himself for his mugshot.

The only thing remaining is whether the measurement was in the morning, but it was almost certainly not first thing out of bed. I think it's fair to call a guy the height they measure at if they can look it and Steve could look it: Click Here That's Steve and his 5'8" ex-wife Ali MacGraw. He doesn't look shorter than his measured height next to her and he's obviously not the 5'6"-5'7" guy some are making him out to be.

No other actor's height is in question. Chances are when you hear something like that, it's usually a shoe height, unless it looks WAY off. Not a short guy by any stretch for his generation, but for a movie star, especially with loose posture, it's easy to see why McQueen's 5'9. Both were some '7" tall. These 2 actors worked with McQueen many times,he appears taller or equal with both. He was listed as 5'6". He worked with Robert Vaughn several times a shirt actor friend Don Gordon another short actor etc.

A passport and drivers license is what YOU place on the application. I remember reading the entire crew of "The Blob" hated him. He was extremely difficult to work with and John Sturgess, who's movies really made him world famous, never worked with him again after "The Great Escape".

He was a serial womanizer, drug abuser, and he cheated on all his wives. Considering the horrible childhood he endured, his behavior is at least understandable. He just wanted to live a normal life away from the spot light and be treated like a regular guy. Coburn sounded Incredibly pompous Anyway this heighr looks spot on. He never looked tall and unless john wayne was 6 5 he was short off screen. No idea why there is very uncool director on this page who ive never heard of btw.

Newman had an unfair advantage of living much longer and he was a much better actor. If I had one guess he was 5 9 in shoes max, could appear a bit more in cowboy boots. He is and always will be the cool yard stick in hollywood at least for grown ups. He was unknown then and they made no effort to make him appear tall. He definitely can't be taller than 5'8". Definitely had something about him though. McQueen was no more than 5ftft8.

As for Barbara, she's not 5ft10; she's barely 5ft7. Gotta love these preposterous height claims.. I was 16 years old and they were filming a movie called "The Towering Inferno" at the building and my first thought was he is short.

Steve could not have been more than 5' 7" maybe 5' 8" because that's how tall I was and we were eye to eye and he seemed even shorter than me. By the way. I love Steve McQueen. His posture looks poor even in those photos so if he stood upright, 5'10 or slightly taller in a pair of shoes which is what Neile Mcqueen stated. Minimum, But I think he was at least A man's man that the ladies loved. Wish he lived longer with his talent. I am 5 foot 10 flat footed. I tell them I am 6 feet tall because that's how tall I am at the present time.

What a persons height is and how tall a person looks is 2 completely different things. A persons true height is barefoot but we dont see people barefoot when we go out only at a beach we do and most of the times they wear sandals.

In the great Escape he appeared to look 5 foot 8 inches and that's with shoes on. There's little chance he was measured 5' Near enough 5 ft 10 but probably rounded up slightly. So if you consider that we're looking at a possible 5'9. In some films he could look a comfortable 5 10 range in cowboy boots though.

I think a whisker under the mark. There's a good scene with him wearing flats in the Sand Pebbles with Candice and I think he looked that. I will do that, the 9. In the book it says when he joined the marines at the age of 17 he was 5'6. When he left 3 years later at the age of 20 he was 5'9. Could he have grown three inches in three years? Doubtful in my opinion. In most of the books I have read he was 5'8" and that is what I believe he was.

He only looked about that height in "Wanted Dead or Alive. In the comments below you are certain he wouldn't be 5' If he was a legit 5'10, the 5' Maybe you should adjust this. The original Steve Mcqueen still reigns supreme. And btw I'd say 5'9" tops. He benefited from wearing cowboy boots and lifts in many of his roles. If you look at candid home photos of him, it's clear he was shorter than advertised. He can look anything in 5'9. At times he can really look the full 5ft 10, others looks more 5'9 range.

An Alain Delon type listing might be reasonable? Seems specific. Also the "At five feet ten and a half there was no reason to.

He was also the same height as Paul Newman and looks in The Sand Pebbles in some of the comparisons. I've seen most of his films now and I think he was genuinely near 5 ft 10, but I just think 5'9. He was near 5 ft 10 but I do think though there's a good case for strong 5'9, I'd put him at cm. That listing at age 20 might have been his actual measured height you know.

American doctors, correctly, told him the cancer had spread throughout his body and was terminal. Mcqueen decided to be admitted to a clinic in Mexico that offered a sham treatment but it was his only hope.

He became a born again Christian because of his wife Barbara Minty, who is religious, and the bleak medical prognosis. He died with a bible on his chest, a Colt.

Oh yeah, I still believe he was 5'8" in his bare feet. He was usually teamed with short actors and actress', death certificate states 5'8", military record has 5'8", police arrest photo from Toronto has him at the 5'9" mark with shoes, and many photos show him as not tall including the photo of him on his tip toes with his fellow motorcycle riders.

Does'nt come across the nicest of men, for such a tough guy persona he was a bit of a baby when it came to his illness, becoming a born again Christian and having Billy Graham at his bedside, also refused conventional medicine till it was too late and relied on spiritual healing and dodgy doctors Editor Rob.

He can look tallish in some scenes! Many of the male actors are taller than Steve McQueen. This substantiates my earlier comment that Steve McQueen was not very tall. He was probably around 5' 9" barefoot. In Planet of the Apes he looked very rugged and strong looking, reminded me of one of those big rowers who row across the Atlantic or those rugged guys who climb the high peak of Nepal.

You can see in the above photo anyway that he was of reasonable height, 5'6" is utter bunk. Unless Richard Attenborough was 5'3" etc!! McQueen seemed overly self-aggrandizing at times but was likable in his best role. Nonetheless, I never enjoyed watching him as much as Newman. Lancaster was also a drinker and smoker but was always very strong with big, ropey muscular arms and shoulders.

Gregory Peck is an example of a guy who could seem graceful but he seemed kind of slow-moving and never really looked athletic to me but apparently was enormously strong, Robert Mitchum who was more barrel chested was in awe of Peck's strength. Not many young people today would know about the actor Steve McQueen, especially as his films tend o be very slow and overlong. McQueen was just under 5'9". While he is average, is he 'average' among the people, many action oriented people, who surround him in his films?

He was still just too Kool for Skool! The mother had several candid photos that were taken during filming. She said that McQueen was "not very tall I was 5'9" at the time and she said that he McQueen was about my height Burt Reynolds did some pretty nimble moving around in Rifles.

There are a lot of actors who look athletic, but never seem to do anything athletic Charlton Heston looks terrifically strong, but you rarely see him actually doing anything that requires grace and skill. I'll certainly give you Burt Lancaster, who could do young guy moves when he was over I have yet to see a Douglas Fairbanks movie, but I understand he was an accomplished gymnast. Who is the least athletic leading man?

James Stewart. There is man who never hit a ball out of the infield in his life. I agree his knife scene was impressive. I didn't think he looked that athletic Ian at all to be honest, wiry, yes, but he looked quite pale at times and looked a heavy drinker and smoker. Paul Newman had many gifts there was an actor who probably really was an I. Watch Nevada Smith, and there is a nasty knife-fighting scene where McQueen jumps nimbly around on the top rail of a stock pen.

You can't fake that kind of grace. You have to take "Know-nothing" with a grain of salt. He claims to have "measured" everyone in Hollywood and he doesn't understand that lifts in shoes are on the "INSIDE" of the shoes and not visible to the naked eye. Look at some sights that build lifts. Know-nothing calls these "invisible lifts" and that they are!! I think McQueen looks 5'9. I've always preferred Newman. IMO, Newman was cool incidentally and a more consistently quality actor, whereas McQueen was trying more deliberately to be perceived as cool.

Neither struck me as lift-wearers. It's possible he did actually measure 5'9. Either way, 5'6" and 5'7" are nowhere near realistic, and really nothing under 5'9" was realistic, imo. For those that say he was only 5'8" or even less, why not post some pictures or video where he actually looks that height? I think the real argument is whether he was more 5'9" or 5'10" since he was clearly pretty average, but didn't look short.

I'd believe either 5'9. Nothing more, nothing less. As for lifts, there was a photo where you could see their entire bodies and Steve in sandals with absolutely no chance of lifts did look about 5'10" next to Ali MacGraw who didn't look less than the 5'8" she's listed at here. Most likely, any variation in his height comes from his often loose posture and some co-stars who may have wore lifts such as Yul Brynner who was known to be sensitive about his height.

Anyway, very cool actor who starred in some timeless classics. Robby D. Some of the things Darwin Porter came out with in his book were I don't think Steve McQueen ever wore lifts. I did think he may have been about 5'8" but looking at a head and shoulders photo of him with Ali MacGraw on the Malibu beach, he looks at least two inches taller than her.

Assuming they are barefoot or in sandals that would make him around 5'10" in height, 5'9. If you want suspicious footwear watch a few films with Bing Crosby or Peter Lorre. In a few films in fact McQueen's shoes were quite flat and he looked close to 5 ft See him next to Dustin Hoffman in Papillon, had near 5 inches on him.

McQueen wasn't good looking as actors come but he was bad ass and had that aura about him that Frank Sinatra had which led to his success. Find a photo showing him wearing lifts. The five-six claim by Porter goes to show he has zero credibility. I once knew an actress who swore Peter Sellers was over five-ten.

That she met him and was surprised how tall he was. When I proved to her he was more like five-eight, she admitted she never met him. A lot of people are full of it. Also in the same book it mentions that for his last film, "The Hunter" he played the part of real life bounty hunter, Ralph Papa Thorson and that Thorson in real life stood 6'2" and weighed lbs, whereas at the time, Steve McQueen who was fifty years old stood, 5'6" and weighed lbs.

Could his illness have decreased his height? Never understood what anyone ever saw in him, he was just a one-note actor as well as short. Click Here He never, ever wore lifts in any film he appeared in.

I never saw him in person wearing lifts. You make a statement when you don't know what you're talking about. This infuriates me about the internet. So many 'experts' who in reality don't have a clue. He was well known for wearing lifts.

My Dad is 5'11" and a few years younger than McQueen and he states he was the second tallest player on his high school basketball team. And he grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, which was a fairly populated city in late 40's, early 50's. Now probably the shortest kid on his Alma Matter's school BB team is five eleven.

Haven't heard from him in a while, hope he is OK. He was the most realistic and reliable poster on celebheights--ever. That man did not exagerrate and he met half of Hollywood circa 50's to 80's. He stated McQueen was about five ten barefoot.

Take it to the bank, as Baretta says. But I do know Steve was taller than five-nine. Robert Vaughn probably wore lifts. Lots of actors wore them including Glenn Ford. Check out his shoes in this photo taken with Brando: Click Here.

Watched bullitt last night. Roughly the same height as robert vaughn. Sorry frank2, but you cant and will not convince us that mcqueen was 5' He was conscious about his height and 5'10" is not short even for a movie star.

Personally I think his height should be reduced on here. One day there was a swarm of people in the reception area and when she asked the reason she was told 'Steve McQueen is here to collect his new Bonneville' she replied 'what that little bloke'! The thing though is that her husband was well over 6' tall and weighed 20 odd stones, so I think that her judgement was 'compromised'!

I knew Steve. If he was five-eight I would have towered over him. I didn't. At best I has an inch taller. He just had bad posture. But when he stood up straight he was five-ten. Had he been five-eight and slumped, he would have really looked short. I know we partied together.

McQueen later gave a medical interview in which he believed that asbestos used in movie sound stage insulation and race-drivers' protective suits and helmets could have been involved, but he thought it more likely that his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging from pipes aboard a troop ship while in the US Marines.

After a four-year hiatus he surprised fans, and was almost unrecognizable under long hair and a beard, as a rabble-rousing early environmentalist in An Enemy of the People , based on the Henrik Ibsen play.

In , McQueen developed a small but persistent cough that would not go away. He quit smoking and underwent antibiotic treatments without improvement. McQueen accepted the part, but on one condition.

He wanted a co-starring role for his then wife, Ali MacGraw. Friedkin would not accept his conditions, and McQueen dropped out of the film. Freidkin later went on record has having regretted not accepting McQueen's conditions.

McQueen was treated by William Donald Kelley, whose only medical license had been until revoked in for orthodontics. McQueen likely used this then-unprecedented pay-or-play arrangement to guarantee the six-year semi-retirement he undertook after "The Towering Inferno", in which he appeared in only one picture, the vanity project An Enemy of the People He played a convict on a French penal colony in South America who persists in trying to escape from his captors and feels their wrath when his attempts fail.

McQueen then teamed up with maverick Hollywood director Sam Peckinpah to star in the modern Western Junior Bonner , about a family of rodeo riders, and again with Peckinpah as bank robber Doc McCoy in the violent The Getaway Both did good business at the box office. He returned to more familiar territory, with the race film Le Mans , a rather self-indulgent exercise, and its slow plot line contributed to its rather poor performance in theaters.

It was not until many years later that it became something of a cult film, primarily because of the footage of Porsche s roaring around race tracks in France. The s is a decade remembered for a slew of "disaster" movies and McQueen starred in arguably the biggest of the time, The Towering Inferno McQueen does not appear until roughly halfway into the film as San Francisco fire chief Mike O'Halloran, battling to extinguish an inferno in a story skyscraper.

The film was a monster hit and set the benchmark for other disaster movies that followed. However, it was McQueen's last film role for several years.

Interestingly, McQueen's next role was a total departure from the action genre, as he played Southerner Boon Hogganbeck in the family-oriented The Reivers , based on the popular William Faulkner novel. Not surprisingly, the film didn't go over particularly well with audiences, even though it was an entertaining and well made production, and McQueen showed an interesting comedic side of his acting talents. McQueen was genuine hot property and next appeared with Faye Dunaway in the provocative crime drama The Thomas Crown Affair , next in what many consider his signature role, that of a maverick, taciturn detective in the mega-hit Bullitt , renowned for its famous chase sequence through San Francisco between McQueen's Ford Mustang GT and the killer's black Dodge Charger.

However, they failed to really grab audience attention, but his role as Eric Stoner in The Cincinnati Kid , alongside screen legend Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden, had movie fans filling theaters again to see the ice-cool McQueen they loved. His only two appearances at the Academy Awards were as a presenter: in , he presented the Oscar for Best Sound, and in , holding hands with Claudia Cardinale, he presented the Oscar again for Best Sound. He was the ultra-cool male film star of the s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor.

The young McQueen appeared as Vin, alongside Yul Brynner, in the star-laden The Magnificent Seven and effectively hijacked the lead from the bigger star by ensuring he was nearly always doing something in every shot he and Brynner were in together, such as adjusting his hat or gun belt.