dutch – Car enthusiast like his father, actor Chad McQueen has died at the age of 63. He had appeared in the first “Karate Kid” films.
The son of a legend is no more. Actor Chad McQueen, the only son of screen legend Steve McQueen, died Wednesday at the age of 63. He had been suffering from organ failure for years, a friend told Hollywood Reporter. But Chad wasn’t just the son of the singer of Bullittsucceeding in breaking into cinema, particularly at the beginning of the 1980s.
“The Karate Kid”, its pinnacle
The son of Steve McQueen and actress Neile Adams was born in Los Angeles (United States) in 1960. After a timid start in cinema at the end of the 1970s, it was with his role as Dutch, who never ceases to harass Daniel LaRusso in Karate Kid (1984), then in The Karate Kid: The Moment of Truth (1986) that Chad McQueen makes a name for himself. He will not, however, be in the cast of Karate Kid 3 (1989). He also had a role in New York Cop (1993) with Mira Sorvino, in Red Line et Death Ring.
Car racing as a legacy
Without ever having achieved the fame of his father in the cinema, Chad McQueen also followed in his father’s footsteps, and this from a very young age, in the field of motorsport. The story goes that his taste for racing was born at the wheel of a Porsche 917 driven on his father’s knee, (…) - 20minutes
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