Another contender — Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle driving a Pontiac LeMans in pursuit of an el-train in ‘The French Connection.’

Another contender — Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle driving a Pontiac LeMans in pursuit of an el-train in ‘The French Connection.’
On the night of August 8, 1969, Steve McQueen was invited to a party at 10050 Cielo Drive in the exclusive Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles.
Steve McQueen died on this day, November 7, in 1980. He went from a delinquent youth who did time in reform schools to the world’s most popular actor in the 1960s and ‘80s.