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The King Of Turning Down Roles - Steve Mc Queen
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My favourite movie of his remains The Great Escape.
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Two of my all time favourites
And the motor racing one,Le Mans.Also remember,Nevada Smith.
Ocean's Eleven - I'm not sure which role he was offered
Breakfast at Tiffany's - He was unable to accept due to contractual obligations to the series Wanted: Dead or Alive. George Peppard eventually got the role.
Marooned - Gregory Peck
King Rat - George Segal
Return of the Seven - Robert Fuller
The Kremlin Letter - Richard Boone
Ice Station Zebra - Rock Hudson
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Robert Redford
Dirty Harry - Clint Eastwood
Play Misty for Me - Clint Eastwood
The French Connection - Gene Hackman
Fort Apache, The Bronx - Paul Newman
The Betsy - Robert Duvall
First Blood - Sylvester Stallone
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Jack Nicholson
Apocalypse Now - Martin Sheen
Raid on Entebbe - Peter Finch
Raise the Titanic! - Jason Robards
A Bridge Too Far - Robert Redford
Grace Quigley - Nick Nolte
The Missouri Breaks - Jack Nicholson
The Towering Inferno II
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Richard Dreyfus
The Driver - Ryan O'Neal
Convoy - Kris Kristofferson
*There are several other films he did not turn down and may have made had he not fallen ill including The Bodyguard, Dogs of War, Quigley, Down Under, Hang Tough and Pale Blue Ribbon.