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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, [5] featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
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).
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 1960s and 1970s.
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.
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 ...
Chad McQueen, the son of the late racing and acting legend Steve McQueen, has died in California. He was 63. The Karate Kidactor and race car driver died Wednesday, Sept. 11, in Palm Springs.
McQueen, whose father died of prostate cancer in 2006, discovered that he developed a small tumor during one of his routine checkups in 2022, while his new war drama, Blitz — about a mother's ...
He priced himself out of roles in a Towering Inferno sequel, Raise the Titanic, was rejected for the Salkinds' Superman film due to his growing weight, turned down a role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and walked out on Richard Fleischer's planned adaptation of Tai-Pan when the second $1 million installment of his announced $10 million ...