Steve McQueen once said he came from the gutter and that he'd not done bad for an orphan boy . Every year he used to go back to the borstal where the bungalow boys beat him back into line he became head boy there then after a hundred different jobs from lumberjack, getaway driver, pimp and gunrunner he finally found his niche, a co star James garner called him crazy McQueen, Bruce Lee said he was the toughest son of a gun, and Robert Vaughn admitted he had what you can never train even with thousand years at RADA , the X factor, vulnerability and violence mixed with stunning sex appeal that gave men and women a red light late night hot sweat dreams. The photo is a mugshot taken from one of his many DWIs . Steve McQueen a semi deaf dyslexic kid from the streets he certainly was an still is an inspiration quite similar to Sean Connery who also had a hard up bringing on the streets of Edinburgh it gave him a cool confident charisma to become a super star sex symbol .