Born: March 24, 1930
Steve McQueen was born in Beech Grove, Indiana. When he was an infant, his father, a stunt pilot, abandoned his mother and so she handed Steve over to her relatives to raise. McQueen spent most of his young life at his great-uncle’s farm in Slater, Missouri. He was treated like a son and spent his happiest times there, although he left periodically at his mother’s bidding. He suffered abuse at the hands of his stepfathers (his mother re-married at least twice) and took to the streets to escape.... See All