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Sal Mineo was stunning. Hauntingly and uniquely so. His huge, brown eyes, sweetly sad and darkly intense, his cleft-chinned handsomeness mixed with an almost cherubic baby beauty that remained child-like longer than he probably would have preferred, were so eye-catching and different that the youth was discovered on the sidewalk. He was with other kids, but Sal stood out. It was 1948 and Sal was outside playing with his sister and friends when a man approached the children. The man asked if the kids would like to be on TV. Sal smarted something support at him and right away – the man saw something a tiny extra in this kid. He asked to speak to their mother. Later, Sal was approached by a casting agent and likely observed what the other guy observed – his loveliness, yes, but also the child’s charisma and charm, things that pop on stage and in photographs and on television and, wonderfully, writ large, on movie screens.
Mineo had that it. It’s not just a matter of attraction; it’s a matter of intrigue, a multifaceted intensity that could move from terrific joy when he breaks out into a snicker with James Dean to bursts of mischievousness, manically slapping the drum
Actor Sal Mineo is killed in Hollywood
Actor Sal Mineo is stabbed to death in Hollywood, California. Mineo was parking his car behind his apartment when neighbors heard his cries for support. Some described a white man with brown hair fleeing the scene. By the time they reached Mineo, he was almost defunct from a profound wound to his chest. He died minutes later.
Sal Mineo was a renowned teen actor in the 1950s. He co-starred with James Dean in both Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. The transition to adult roles did not come easily for Mineo, but he later appeared in films such as The Longest Day and Escape From the World of the Apes, and consistently performed guest spots on television series. On the night he was killed, Mineo was returning from rehearsing for a play.
For two years, the police searched in vain for clues to the killer’s identity. At first, they suspected that Mineo’s serve for prison reform had put him in contact with a dangerous ex-con. Then their center shifted to Mineo’s personal life. Investigators had discovered that his home was filled with pictures of nude men. But the lesbian pornography also failed to turn up any leads.
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Bisexual actor Sal Mineo (1939-1976) was defined by two things: his unforgettable Academy Award–nominated role opposite James Dean in the motion picture Rebel Without a Cause (at age 15), and his murder in Hollywood at the age of 37.
Nevertheless, the Bronx-born actor of Italian heritage appeared in 22 films, directed stage plays and operas and made many television appearances. While still a youth he was mentored by Yul Brynner in the stage musical The King and I, Mineo had taken over the role of the young Prince Chulalongkorn three months into the show's initial run.
Sal Mineo was so convincing as Plato in Rebel Without a Cause* that he was nominated for an Academy Award as Foremost Supporting Actor, leading to his being forever typecast as a troubled youth. It was difficult for him to sustain an acting career when he became too old for such parts. A welcome exception came with the role of a Jewish emigrant in Otto Preminger’s film Exodus (1960), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received a second Academy Award Nomination for Finest Supporting Actor. Another break out from typecasting was his star turn as drummer Gene Krupa in The Gene Krupa Stor
SAL MINEO BIOGRAPHY
EARLY CAREER
Birth name: Salvatore Mineo Jr.
Nicknames: The Switchblade Kid, Jr
Date of birth (location) 10 January 1939, Harlem, New York, USA
Date of death (details) 12 February 1976, West Hollywood, California, USA. (homicide)
Salvatore Mineo Jr. was born to Josephine and Sal Sr. (a casket maker), who emigrated to the USA from Sicily. Sal's siblings were Michael, Victor and Sarina. His mother enrolled him in dancing and acting school and, he soon began making tiny appearances on local tv shows before the
tender age of 10. The acting bug had bitten juvenile Sal and he was a natural!
He soon appeared in the theatrical production "The Rose Tatoo" with Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach, and as the young prince in "The King and I" with Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner.
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