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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by ... 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures; ... Steve McQueen, ...
Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) [4] was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the late 50s to the mid 1970s.
Don Gordon (born Donald Walter Guadagno; November 13, 1926 – April 24, 2017) [3] was an American film and television actor.His most notable film roles were those in which he appeared alongside his friend Steve McQueen: Bullitt (1968), Papillon (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974).
McQueen's performance earned him his fourth and final Golden Globe Award nomination in the Best Actor category. [35] He then starred alongside Paul Newman as a SFFD chief in the disaster drama The Towering Inferno (1974). [36] McQueen received $12 million for acting in the film, making him the highest-paid actor in the world up to that point.
Stars from the past year’s biggest movies and TV shows walked the Screen Actors Guild Awards red carpet on February 24. See all the best looks here.
In 1974, Newman co-starred with Steve McQueen in John Guillermin's disaster film The Towering Inferno. Newman plays an architect stuck in a skyscraper he designed that catches fire. Newman was paid $1,000,000 plus a percentage of the gross, and he insisted he do his own stunts. The film was a success and its North American gross was $55,000,000 ...
McQueen continued acting in movies such as 1993's Firepower, but his last TV or movie credit is in the 2001 title Fall: The Price of Silence, alongside Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin.
Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen has been knighted. He will now be known in the U.K. as Sir Steve McQueen. McQueen, who won an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe for his film “12 ...