Le Mans, Bullitt, The Sand Pebbles, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Magnificent Seven......he was great in all of them. I also liked him in On Any Sunday, a documentary about motorcycle riders.
He was conservative politically and in action.
On movie sets would ask for "extra" t-shirts that he would send to troubled boys in juvie halls.
Same age as Eastwood, and with similar backgrounds.
He was always one of my favorite actors.
Apparently during the filming of The Towering Inferno, there was some dispute with Paul Newman over who would get top billing.
So to compromise, their names would appear in the credits at the same time but one would be higher and the other would be at the bottom.
But at an angle.
IIRC, McQueen got the top, and Newman got the bottom corner.
“On Any Sunday”
I met an old guy that used to race bikes, and was in that film quite a bit. He told me the number to look for and everything, and now I can’t remember.