Steve McQueen is my vote (add a poll at the end of the year)(can you do this?)
He was always so believable no matter what role he took on from cowboy with that fancy rifle to escaped prisoner on a motorcycle in "The Great Escape" (1963) to a sailor in "San Pebbles" (1966) to a cowboy in "Nevada Smith" (1966) to a thief in "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968) to a detective on the streets of San Francisco in "Bullitt" (1968) to race car driver in the movie "Le Mans" (1971) by which time he had gone broke only to wind up dying in a clinic in Mexico in November 1980 shipped back across the border in a 1957 Ford station wagon still holding the bible that Billy Graham had given him.
They roped off everything he left behind in a hanger in Palmdale, California and auctioned it all off.
He was known as "The king of cool"
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