• Name: James Dean
  
• Birth Name: James Byron Dean
  
• Height: 5'8"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: February 8, 1931
  
• Birth Place: Seven Gables Apartments, 320 East 4th Street Marion, Indiana USA
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Fairmount High School in Fairmount, Indiana
  
•   : Santa Monica Junior College in Santa Monica, CA
  
•   : University of California at Los Angeles
  
•   : Actors Studio in New York
  
• Place of Death: September 30, 1955
  
• Death Date: Paso Robles, California, USA
  
• Death Cause: road accident
  
• Relationship: Anna Maria Pierangeli (Pier Angeli; Italian; actress)
  
• Father: Winton Dean (dental technician; died in 1995 at age 88)
  
• Mother: Mildred Dean (died on April 14, 1940; cancer)
  
• Claim to fame: as Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  

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• "Only the gentle are ever really strong."
• "Gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
• "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
• "Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."
• When told he was too short to be an actor: "How can you measure acting in inches?"
• "When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that ^Ö to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons."

• Golden Globe: World Film Favorite - Male (1957)
• Golden Globe Awards: World Film Favorites (1956)
• Golden Globe Awards: Special Achievement - Posthumous Award For Outstanding Dramatic Actor, EAST OF EDEN (1955)
• Golden Globe: Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama (1956)

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