Sal Mineo

Salvatore Mineo, Jr. (January 10, 1939 - February 12, 1976) was an American actor and theater director, famous for his Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without A Cause.

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Mineo, born in The Bronx, New York City as the son of a Sicilian coffin maker, was enrolled by his mother in dancing and acting school at an early age.

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Mineo had his first stage appearance in The Rose Tattoo (1950), a play by Tennessee Williams. He also played the young prince opposite Yul Brynner in the stage musical The King And I.

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After a few more film and television appearances his breakthrough was Rebel Without A Cause (1955) in which he gave an impressive performance as John "Plato" Crawford, the sensitive teenager smitten with James Dean's Jim Stark. His biographer Paul Jeffers recounted that Mineo received thousands of fan letters from young female admirers, was mobbed by them at public appearances and further wrote, "He dated the most beautiful women in Hollywood and New York." Mineo was later reunited with Dean in Giant, though only in a few scenes.

January 10: January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 355 days remaining (356 in leap years)....

1939: 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar)....

February 12: February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 322 days remaining, 323 in leap years....

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