June 1967Photograph By Dan Wynn

The quintessential badass, McQueen was a box-office king during the ’60s and ’70s. When Esquire visited him at his home in Palm Springs, McQueen took our writer out for a long day of shirtless dirt-bike adventures. “You know,” he said, “all I really know about is cars and motorcycles.” He also knew about charisma, on the screen and off.