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Birth Name: James Byron Dean
Birthdate: February 8, 1931
Birthplace: Marion, Indiana
Date of Death: September 30, 1955
Killed when his Porsche Spyder sports car collided with another car in Paso Robles, California
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Buried: Park Cemetery, Fairmount, Indiana
Parents: Mildred and Winton Dean. He was raised by his aunt and uncle on a farm in Indiana after his mother's death when Dean was nine years old
Education: Attended Santa Monica Junior College, UCLA, The Actor's Studio in New York, and studied acting with James Whitmore
Films: East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause, Giant
Points of Interest: James Dean was nominated for two posthumous Best Actor Oscars: in 1956 for East of Eden (he lost to Ernest Borgnine in Marty) and in 1957 for Giant (he lost to Yul Brynner in The King and I).
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Dean is one of only five actors who have received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in his first screen appearance.
Dean was set to star in two films at the time of his death: The Left-Handed Gun: Billy the Kid's Story and Somebody Up There Likes Me, about the life of boxer Rocky Graziano. Paul Newman played both roles.
Dean worked as a stunt tester on the original Beat the Clock game show in 1950, testing the safety of the stunts that some of the studio audience members would later perform
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