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Movie icon and star of Rebel Without a Cause
James Dean appeared in only a handful of films, the best-known being East of Eden (1955, from the novel by John Steinbeck), Rebel Without a Cause (1955, with Natalie Wood) and Giant (1956, with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson). Thrust into stardom almost immediately after his first big role, Dean was a sexually ambiguous, sensitively intelligent Angry Young Man whose dramatic intensity lit up a generation of filmgoers. His untimely death, in a high-speed car crash, guaranteed his canonization as a tragic American cinema legend. Besides his three "big" pictures, Dean had bit parts in the movies Fixed Bayonets (1951), Sailor Beware (1951, with Jerry Lewis) and Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952, with Rock Hudson); according a timeline on the official site of Dean's estate, he also worked as an extra in Trouble Along the Way, a 1953 film starring John Wayne as a college football coach.
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