Brooding, electric-blue eyes. Taut, lean-bodied

strength, tensed for trouble. A man Tough-minded.

moody, monumentally talented.

He gave us Bullitt and Thomas Crown, the Cincinnati

Kid and Papillon ... He gave us a vision of life lived

at the edge, passionately and without compromise

... and as he lived, so he died, amidst

conTroversy and wilh much courage... Now his

friend William F. Nolan, tells the story Steve

McQueen would tell only to him.