Sal Mineo Biography

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NAME: Salvatore Mineo Jr.
OCCUPATION: Film Actor
BIRTH DATE: January 10, 1939
DEATH DATE: February 12, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH: Bronx, New York

PLACE OF DEATH: West Hollywood, California

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Sal Mineo was an American actor, best remembered for playing the role of Plato in the classic teen film Rebel Without a Cause.

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Synopsis

Sal Mineo was an American actor, best remembered for playing the role of Plato, opposite James Dean, in the classic teen film Rebel Without a Cause. After his most memorable role, he was shot into superstardom, cast regularly as wayward young men. By the 1960s, his career was slowing, but he made a small comeback in the 1970s,

just before he was murdered by a pizza delivery boy in 1976.

Profile

Actor. Born January 10, 1939, in the Bronx, New York. As a wayward youth, Mineo found his way to acting only as a means of avoiding juvenile confinement. He made his debut on Broadway in 1951 in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo followed by a substantial role in The King and I. He appeared in a few films before landing the most memorable role of his career, that of Plato in the classic Rebel Without a Cause. Mineo received an Academy Award nomination for his performance opposite James Dean.

The nomination shot Mineo into superstardom, and he continued to work steadily through the 1950s in such films as Somebody Up There Likes Me and Exodus, the latter earning the young actor his second Oscar nod. However, by the mid 1960s, Mineo's film career had slowed considerably, and he began to take parts on television and to direct stage plays.

On February 12, 1976, the down-and-out Mineo met an untimely death. The actor was brutally murdered in Hollywood at the age of 37.