Katharine Ross Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), co-starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. After appearing in "The Graduate", a part for which she received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe as New Star of the Year, she said, "I'm not a movie star...that system is dying and I'd like to help it along." She also won a BAFTA for her part as an Indian in "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" (1969). Ross turned down several roles (including Jacqueline Bisset's role in "Bullitt") before accepting the part in "Butch Cassidy". Afterward she turned down several more roles, including a part
The Getaway (1972 film) police on the way, the couple hijack a pickup truck and force the driver, a cooperative old cowboy, to take them to Mexico. After crossing the border, Doc and Carol pay the cowboy $30,000 for his beatup, old truck. Overjoyed, the cowboy heads back to El Paso on foot, while the couple continue into Mexico. Steve McQueen had been encouraging his publicist David Foster to enter the film industry for years, as a producer. His first attempt was "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), with McQueen starring alongside Paul Newman, but 20th Century Fox, particularly its president, Richard D.