Steve McQueen Biography

After being diagnosed with cancer, he went to a health clinic in Mexico to undergo a controversial "apricot pit" therapy that was banned in America.

He was the first of the original "Magnificent Seven" to pass away.

Steve was diagnosed with mesothelioma lung cancer on December 22, 1979, but kept the illness a secret up until over a month before his death.

In a 1997 pulication of Empire magazine, he was voted Number 50 in "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time."