Steve McQueen dominated the box office as Hollywood’s antihero of the Sixties and Seventies. The Oscar-nominated legend was so popular that by 1974, he was the highest-paid movie star in the world.

(Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) 7) The Towering Inferno invented the concept of “Diagonal Billing” due to the star power of its leads Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, who were ...