James Dean

The star of Rebel without a Cause was an american actor born in 1931. Before Dean started his career as an actor he was very successful in his high-school years as an athlete specially in basketball but alter he finished high school and moved to California, he enrolled to UCLA and to study drama but he drop college to be a full time actor. He started with small television parts and then in Broadway but his career will be launched to the stardom with his part on East of Eden but is more remembered by his role in “Rebel without a Cause” as 17 year old Jim Stark, new kid that arrives to a new school and challenged every authority or social rules.

Dean also had another passion: car racing. He was known for buying cars and running in Palm Springs competition, he found dead when he was racing on his cursed “Little Bastard” and have an accident.

James Dean now it’s an icon of pop culture: a lot of teenagers now feel related to him in the point where no one can understand them.