James Dean

James Dean

actor, additional crew

James Dean was born on Feb 08, 1931 in USA. James Dean's big-screen debut came with Fixed Bayonets! directed by Samuel Fuller in 1951, strarring Doggie (uncredited). James Dean is known for Giant directed by George Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor stars as Leslie Benedict and Rock Hudson as Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr.. James Dean has got 7 awards and 4 nominations so far. The most recent award James Dean achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie James Dean plays is Giant which will be released on Nov 24, 1956.

James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to New York to pursue his dream of acting. He received rave reviews for his work as the blackmailing Arab boy in the New York production of Gide's "The Immoralist", good enough to earn him a trip to Hollywood. His early film efforts were strictly small roles: a sailor in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis overly frantic musical comedy La polka des marins (1952); a GI in Samuel Fuller's moody study of a platoon in the Korean War, Baïonnette au canon! (1951) and a youth in the Piper Laurie-Rock Hudson comedy Qui donc a vu ma belle? (1952).He had major roles in only three movies. In the Elia Kazan production of John Steinbeck's À l'est d'Eden (1955) he played Cal Trask, the bad brother who could not force affection from his stiff-necked father. His true starring role, the one which fixed his image forever in American culture, was that of the brooding red-jacketed teenager Jim Stark in Nicholas Ray's La Fureur de vivre (1955). George Stevens' filming of Edna Ferber's Géant (1956), in which he played the non-conforming cowhand Jett Rink who strikes it rich when he discovers oil, was just coming to a close when Dean, driving his Porsche Spyder race car, collided with another car while on the road near Cholame, California on September 30, 1955. He had received a speeding ticket just two hours before. At age 24, James Dean was killed almost immediately from the impact from a broken neck. His very brief career, violent death and highly publicized funeral transformed him into a cult object of apparently timeless fascination.

  • Birthday

    Feb 08, 1931
  • Place of Birth

    Marion, Indiana, USA

Known For

Awards

7 wins & 4 nominations

Online Film & Television Association
2014
Acting
Winner - OFTA Film Hall of Fame
Walk of Fame
1960
Motion Picture
Winner - Star on the Walk of Fame
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