Steve McQueen was one of the coolest movie stars ever. He exuded steely confidence as Old West bounty hunter Josh Randall on the CBS series "Wanted Dead or Alive" and was so at home in that milieu that director John Sturges cast him as the second lead in his epic Western "The Magnificent Seven." It was a rapid ascent to the upper echelon of Hollywood's A-list after that, with McQueen captivating audiences with his tough, taciturn demeanor in classics like "The Great Escape," "The Cincinnati Kid," and "The Sand Pebbles" (for which he earned his first and only Oscar nomination for Best Actor).

1968 was the year McQueen became a full-fledged screen icon. He was a smolderingly sexy gentleman thief in "The Thomas Crown Affair," which found him throwing off wild sparks with co-star Faye Dunaw

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