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James Dean

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 15: Coach Valery Karpin of FC Spartak Moscow reacts during the Russian Football League Championship match between FC Spartak Moscow and FC Rubin Kazan at the Luzhniki Stadium on April 15, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.

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About James Dean

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was a two-time Oscar-nominated American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled stereotypical high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward loner Cal Trask in East of Eden, and as the surly farmer Jett Rink in Giant. His enduring fame and popularity rests on only three films, his entire starring output. His death at a young age helped guarantee a legendary status. He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two posthumous acting nominations (although other people had more than one posthumous nomination in other Oscar categories).

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