James Dean

Name: James Dean
Date of Birth: February 08, 1931
Place of Birth: Marion, Indiana, USA

Mini-bio: Born in Marion, Indiana to Winton and Mildred Wilson Dean, James Dean and his family moved to Santa Monica, California six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician. Dean w...( read more)

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James Dean mini-bio: Born in Marion, Indiana to Winton and Mildred Wilson Dean, James Dean and his family moved to Santa Monica, California six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician. Dean was enrolled in Brentwood Public School until his mother died of cancer in 1940. At age nine, Dean was sent by his father to live with his aunt Ortense and uncle Marcus Winslow on a farm in Fairmount, Indiana, where he was brought up with a Quaker influence. In high school Dean played on the school basketball team and studied forensics and drama. After graduating from Fairmount High School in 1949, Dean moved back to California to live with his father and stepmother. He enrolled in Santa Monica College (SMCC), pledged to the Sigma Nu fraternity and majored in pre-law. Dean transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles and changed his major to drama, resulting in estrangement from his father.

Dean began his acting career with a Pepsi-Cola commercial followed by a stint as a stunt tester in the Beat the Clock game show. He quit college to focus on his budding career, but struggled to get jobs in Hollywood and paid his bills only by working as a parking lot attendant at CBS Studios. Following friends' advice, Dean moved to New York City to pursue live stage acting, where he was accepted to study under Lee Strasberg in the storied Actors Studio. His career picked up, and he did several episodes on early-1950s TV shows such as Kraft Television Theater, Studio One, Lux Video Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, Danger and General Electric Theater. One early role, for the CBS series, Omnibus (Glory in the Flower) saw Dean portraying the same type of disaffected youth he would later immortalize in Rebel Without a Cause (this summer 1953 program was also notable for featuring the song "Crazy Man, Crazy", one of the first dramatic TV programs to feature rock and roll). Positive reviews for his role in André Gide's The Immoralist led to calls from Hollywood and paved the way to film stardom.

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margueritha

pah este homem é divinal, não devia ter morrido tão cedo!... a legend

posted 32 days ago
loobyphattcat

Where is the Dustin Hoffman picture?

posted 33 days ago
Aberrations

Okay uhh since when did James Dean turn into Dustin Hoffman?
Or is this a "what James Dean would've look like if he lived past 24" thing ?

posted 149 days ago
riverphoenixgurl

Why is the pictue of Dustin Hoffman?

posted 162 days ago
loobyphattcat

Happy 77th Birthday James xxx

posted 201 days ago
AnnLempFan38

Happy 77th Birthday James Dean!!

posted 201 days ago
ednamae88

He was crazy at what he did but in a good way. No one can be like him they can't even try to. He is a lengend. With so much passion and pain. With this emoitions drove him to be who he was. May he rest in peace. But he said he would want to die for he could have peace. But people don't understand that that is why I have read sopme of his fans have done voodoo or tried to bring him back. Lengend doesn't die it lives on 4 ever. So may he be in PEACE.

posted 228 days ago
Riverfan93

A forever young actor. Not just any kind of actor but, a rare and wonderful talent. That not many actors have. He could show emotion on the screen like no one else. Even though he only made 3 movies they are still all popular because of the rare talent James Dean had.

posted 242 days ago
AnnLempFan38

Such a talented young actor who died far too young. 50 some years after his death and people still recognize how truly talented he was.

posted 294 days ago
WesHightowerGirl

I Miss James Dean he was a great actor of his time if now he is dead and gone. I will not forget about James Dean the Rebel without a cause.

posted 326 days ago