Chad McQueenwho was always between the world of automobiles and that of cinema, died Wednesday at the age of 63. His son, the actor Steve McQueen(“The Vampire Diaries” and “Chicago Fire”) announced the sad news on social media, recalling his father’s great love for engines. Chad McQueen has appeared in over 25 films and television shows throughout his life, but he ended up leaving the world of cinema for motorsport, which gave him a big scare and left him in a coma for a month.
Among the actor’s best-known projects is ‘Karate for children‘, a 1984 film in which a young man arrives in Los Angeles from the East Coast of the United States, ready to make new friends, but becomes the target of attacks by the Cobrasa hostile group of karate students, when he begins dating Ali, the former girlfriend of the group’s leader. There, he played Dutch. He reprised the role of Dutch in the second part of “The Karate Kid”, released in 1986.
McQueen has appeared in films such as “New York Cop,” a 1993 action film about a Japanese detective living illegally in the United States; and “Red Line,” a 1995 thriller about a blackmailed car thief.
But the first feature film was “Skateboard“, about the skateboarding craze of the 1970s, was his first appearance on the big screen, according to the ‘New York Times’. The truth is that, years later, the group opted precisely for the wheels, as his father instilled in him. His father, Steve McQueen, was the highest paid movie star of those decades. 1960s and 1970sand his mother, Neile Adams, was a Filipino-American actress, singer and dancer.
McQueen He has competed in events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring. In fact, in 2006, he was in a coma for almost a month due to an accident during one of these races, at the Rolex 24 event. In 2010, he entered the automotive world and founded McQueen Racing, a company that develops high-performance automobiles and motorcycles.
