I am sure a large part of it is that he died so young and so violently ( ironically, I saw a movie retrospective that showed a typically posturing and grimacing Dean lecturing young people on the need to drive safely)..
I suppose he is fading way into history now... cult heroes have a way of doing that
James Dean
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| James Dean | |
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James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause
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| Born | James Byron Dean February 8, 1931 Marion, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | September 30, 1955 (aged 24) Cholame, California, U.S. |
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Cause of death
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Vehicular accident (fractured neck) |
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Resting place
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Park Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Jim or Jimmy |
| Education | Fairmount High School |
| Alma mater | Santa Monica College UCLA |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1951–1955 |
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Dean was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations.[3] In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star on their AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list.[4]
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Early life
James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, at the Seven Gables apartment house located at the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion, Indiana, to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician, James and his family moved to Santa Monica, California. He was enrolled at Brentwood Public School in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, but transferred soon afterward to the McKinley Elementary school.[5] The family spent several years there, and by all accounts young Dean was very close to his mother. According to Michael DeAngelis, she was "the only person capable of understanding him".[6] In 1938, she was suddenly struck with acute stomach pains and began to lose weight quickly. She died of uterine cancer when Dean was nine years old.[5]Unable to care for his son, his father sent James to live with his sister Ortense and her husband Marcus Winslow on a farm in Fairmount, Indiana, where he was raised in a Quaker background. Winton served in World War II and later remarried. In his adolescence, Dean sought the counsel and friendship of a local Methodist pastor, the Rev. James DeWeerd. DeWeerd seemed to have had a formative influence upon Dean, especially upon his future interests in bullfighting, car racing, and the theater. According to Billy J. Harbin, "Dean had an intimate relationship with his pastor... which began in his senior year of high school and endured for many years."[7] Their alleged sexual relationship was earlier suggested in the 1994 book Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean by Paul Alexander.[8] In 2011, it was reported that he once confided in Elizabeth Taylor, his co-star in Giant, that he was sexually abused by a minister approximately two years after his mother's death.[9] Other reports on Dean's life also suggest that he was either sexually abused by De Weerd when a child or had a sexual relationship with him as a late teenager.[7][8]
In high school, Dean's overall performance was mediocre. However, he was considered to be a popular student, having played on the baseball and varsity basketball teams, studied drama and competed in forensics through the Indiana High School Forensic Association. After graduating from Fairmount High School on May 16, 1949, Dean moved back to California with his beagle, Max, to live with his father and stepmother. He enrolled in Santa Monica College (SMC) and majored in pre-law. Dean transferred to UCLA for one semester[10] and changed his major to drama, which resulted in estrangement from his father. He pledged the Sigma Nu fraternity but was never initiated. While at UCLA, he was picked from a pool of 350 actors to land the role of Malcolm in Macbeth. At that time, he also began acting in James Whitmore's workshop. In January 1951, he dropped out of UCLA to pursue a full-time career as an actor.[11]
Acting career
In October 1951, following the encouragement of actor James Whitmore's and his mentor Rogers Brackett's advice, Dean moved to New York City. There he worked as a stunt tester for the game show Beat the Clock. He also appeared in episodes of several CBS television series, The Web, Studio One, and Lux Video Theatre, before gaining admission to the legendary Actors Studio to study method acting under Lee Strasberg. Proud of this accomplishment, Dean referred to the Studio in a 1952 letter to his family as "The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred Dunnock. ... Very few get into it ... It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong."[13]
Dean's career picked up and he performed in further episodes of such early 1950s television shows as Kraft Television Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, Danger, and General Electric Theater. One early role, for the CBS series Omnibus in the episode "Glory in the Flower", saw Dean portraying the type of disaffected youth he would later immortalize in Rebel Without a Cause. (This summer 1953 program was also notable for featuring the song "Crazy Man, Crazy", one of the first dramatic TV programs to feature rock and roll.) Positive reviews for Dean's 1954 theatrical role as "Bachir", a pandering North African houseboy, in an adaptation of André Gide's book The Immoralist, led to calls from Hollywood.[15]
East of Eden
Main article: East of Eden (film)
In 1953, director Elia Kazan
was looking for a substantive actor to play the emotionally complex
role of 'Cal Trask', for screenwriter Paul Osborn's adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel East of Eden.
The lengthy novel deals with the story of the Trask and Hamilton
families over the course of three generations, focusing especially on
the lives of the latter two generations in Salinas Valley,
California, from the mid-19th century through the 1910s. In contrast to
the book, the film script focused on the last portion of the story,
predominantly with the character of Cal. Though he initially seems more
aloof and emotionally troubled than his twin brother Aron, Cal is soon
seen to be more worldly, business savvy, and even sagacious than their
pious and constantly disapproving father (played by Raymond Massey)
who seeks to invent a vegetable refrigeration process. Cal is bothered
by the mystery of their supposedly dead mother, and discovers she is
still alive and a brothel-keeping 'madame' (Jo Van Fleet).Before casting Cal, Elia Kazan said that he wanted "a Brando" for the role and Osborn suggested the relatively unknown young actor, James Dean. Dean met with Steinbeck who did not like the moody, complex young man personally, but thought him to be perfect for the part. Dean was cast in the role and on April 8, 1954, left New York City and headed for Los Angeles to begin shooting.[16][17][18]
Much of Dean's performance in the film is unscripted, including his dance in the bean field and his fetal-like posturing while riding on top of a train boxcar (after searching out his mother in nearby Monterey). The most famous improvisation of the film occurs when Cal's father rejects his gift of $5,000, money Cal earned by speculating in beans prior to World War I. Instead of running away from his father as the script called for, Dean instinctively turned to Massey and in a gesture of extreme emotion, lunged forward and grabbed him in a full embrace, crying. Kazan kept this cut and Massey's shocked reaction in the film. Dean's performance in the film foreshadowed his role as Jim Stark in Rebel Without A Cause. Both characters are angst-ridden protagonists and misunderstood outcasts, desperately craving approval from a father figure.
For the 1955 Academy Awards, Dean received a posthumous nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in East of Eden, the first official posthumous acting nomination in Academy Awards history. (Jeanne Eagels was unofficially nominated for Best Actress in 1929, when the rules for selection of the winner were different.) East of Eden was the only film starring Dean that he would see released in his lifetime.
Rebel Without a Cause
Main article: Rebel Without a Cause
Dean quickly followed up his role in Eden with a starring role as Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause, a film that would prove to be hugely popular among teenagers. The film has been cited as an accurate representation of teenage angst.[19] It co-starred teen actors Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, and Dennis Hopper and was directed by Nicholas Ray.Giant
Main article: Giant (1956 film)
Giant, which was posthumously released in 1956, saw Dean play a supporting role to Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. This was due to his desire to avoid being typecast
as Jim Stark and Cal Trask. In the film, he plays Jett Rink, an
oil-rich Texan ranch hand who strikes oil and becomes wealthy. His role
was notable in that, in order to portray an older version of his
character in the film's later scenes, Dean dyed his hair gray and shaved
some of it off to give himself a receding hairline.Giant would prove to be Dean's last film. At the end of the film, Dean was supposed to make a drunken speech at a banquet; this is nicknamed the 'Last Supper' because it was the last scene before his sudden death. Dean mumbled so much due to his desire to make the scene more realistic by actually being inebriated for the take that director George Stevens decided the scene had to be overdubbed by Nick Adams, who had a small role in the film, because Dean had died before the film was edited.
For the 1956 Academy Awards, Dean received his second posthumous Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his role in Giant.[3]
Personal relationships
While at UCLA, Dean dated Beverly Wills, an actress with CBS, and Jeanette Lewis, a classmate. Bast and Dean often double-dated with them. Wills began dating Dean alone, later telling Bast, "Bill, there's something we have to tell you. It's Jimmy and me. I mean, we're in love."[23]:71 Dean also kept in contact with his girlfriend in New York, Barbara Glenn, whom he dated for two years. Their love letters sold at auction in 2011 for $36,000.[24][25]
Early in Dean's career, after Dean signed his contract with Warner Brothers, the studio's public relations department began generating stories about Dean's liaisons with a variety of young actresses who were mostly drawn from the clientele of Dean's Hollywood agent, Dick Clayton. Studio press releases also grouped "Dean together with two other actors, Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter, identifying each of the men as an 'eligible bachelor' who has not yet found the time to commit to a single woman: 'They say their film rehearsals are in conflict with their marriage rehearsals.'"[26]
Dean's best-remembered relationship was with young Italian actress Pier Angeli, whom he met while Angeli was shooting The Silver Chalice on an adjoining Warner lot, and with whom he exchanged items of jewelry as love tokens.[27] Angeli, during an interview fourteen years after their relationship ended, described their times together:
We used to go together to the California coast and stay there secretly in a cottage on a beach far away from prying eyes. We'd spend much of our time on the beach, sitting there or fooling around, just like college kids. We would talk about ourselves and our problems, about the movies and acting, about life and life after death. We had a complete understanding of each other. We were like Romeo and Juliet, together and inseparable. Sometimes on the beach we loved each other so much we just wanted to walk together into the sea holding hands because we knew then that we would always be together.[23]:196In his autobiography East of Eden, director Elia Kazan dismissed the notion that Dean could possibly have had any success with women, although he remembered hearing Dean and Angeli loudly making love in Dean's dressing room. In 1997, the television movie Race with Destiny was produced,[28] a true-story account of the love affair between Dean and Pier Angeli. It was shot on location "where he lived and loved" until his death.[29]
Despite their strong love for each other, a number of forces led them apart. Angeli's mother disapproved of Dean's casual dress and what were, for her at least, radical behavior traits: his t-shirt attire, late dates, fast cars, and the fact that he was not a Catholic. Her mother said that such behavior was not acceptable in Italy. In addition, MGM, where he worked, tried to talk him out of marrying and he himself told Angeli that he didn't want to get married.[23]:197
After finishing his role for East of Eden, he took a brief trip to New York in October 1954.[23]:197 While he was away, Angeli unexpectedly announced her engagement to Italian-American singer Vic Damone. The press was shocked and Dean expressed his irritation.[30] Angeli married Damone the following month. Gossip columnists reported that Dean watched the wedding from across the road on his motorcycle, even gunning the engine during the ceremony, although Dean later denied doing anything so "dumb."[23]:197
Some, like Bast and Paul Alexander, believe the relationship was a mere publicity stunt.[31][32] Pier Angeli talked only once about the relationship in her later life in an interview, giving vivid descriptions of romantic meetings at the beach. Dean biographer John Howlett said these read like wishful fantasies,[33] as Bast claims them to be.[34]
Actress Liz Sheridan asserts that she and Dean had a short affair in New York.[35] Again Bast is skeptical as to whether this was a true love affair and says Dean and Sheridan did not spend much time together.[13] Dean also dated Swiss actress Ursula Andress. "She was seen riding around Hollywood on the back of James's motorcycle," writes biographer Darwin Porter. She was also seen with Dean in his sports cars, and was with him on the day he bought the car that he died in.[36] At the time, Andress was also dating Marlon Brando. Andress remembered her courtship with Dean: "He came by my house late. He came in room like wild animal, and smell of everything I don't like," she said. "We go hear jazz music and he leave table. Say he go play drums. He no come back. I don't like to be alone. I go home. He come by my home later and say he sorry."[36] She added that Brando was "particularly interested in finding out from Ursula who the better lover was: James Dean or himself. It drove him crazy."[36]
Rumors that Dean avoided the draft by registering as a homosexual appear to be of doubtful authenticity. Not only was he extremely near-sighted and required glasses, he was also a Quaker, either of which was sufficient cause for him to be excused from service.[37]
Death
Main article: Death of James Dean
Auto racing career
Just before filming began on Rebel Without a Cause, Dean entered the Palm Springs Road Races with the Speedster on March 26–27. He finished first overall in Saturday's novice class and second overall in the Sunday main event. Dean also raced the Speedster at Bakersfield on May 1–2, finishing first in class and third overall. His final race with the Speedster was at Santa Barbara on Memorial Day, May 30, where he started in the eighteenth position, worked his way up to fourth, before over-revving his engine and blowing a piston. He did not finish the race.[39] His racing career was put on hold when Warner Brothers barred him from all racing during the production of Giant.[40]
Accident and aftermath
The group had coffee and doughnuts at the Hollywood Ranch Market on Vine Street across from Competition Motors (not the legendary Farmer's Market at W 3rd St & S Fairfax Ave as previously reported) before leaving around 1:15pm PST. They stopped at the Mobil station for gasoline on Ventura Blvd. at Beverly Glen Blvd. in Sherman Oaks around 2:00 p.m. The group then headed north on the Golden State Freeway US 99 (today, the route of Interstate 5) and then over the "Grapevine" toward Bakersfield.[41]
At 3:30 p.m., Dean was stopped and ticketed by California Highway Patrolman O.V. Hunter at Mettler Station on Wheeler Ridge, just south of Bakersfield, for driving 65 mph (105 km/h) in a 55 mph (89 km/h) zone.[9] Hickman, following behind the Spyder in the Ford with the trailer, was also ticketed for driving 20 mph (32 km/h) over the limit, as the speed limit for all vehicles towing a trailer was 45 mph (72 km/h). After receiving the speeding citations, Dean and Hickman turned left onto Route 166/33 to avoid going through Bakersfield's slow 25 mph downtown district. Route 166/33 was a known shortcut for sports car drivers going to Salinas called "the racer's road", which took them directly to Blackwells Corner at CA Route 466 (later SR 46). At Blackwells Corner, Dean stopped briefly for refreshments and met up with fellow racers Lance Reventlow and Bruce Kessler, who were also on their way to the Salinas road races in Reventlow's Mercedes-Benz 300SL coupe. As Reventlow and Kessler were leaving, they agreed to meet for dinner in Paso Robles.[42]
At approximately 5:15 p.m., Dean and Hickman left Blackwells Corner, driving west on Route 466 (now CA 46) toward Paso Robles, approximately 60 miles away. Dean accelerated in the Porsche and left the Ford station wagon far behind. Further along on Route 466, the Porsche crested Polonio Pass and headed down the long Antelope Grade, passing cars along the way toward the junction floor at Route 466 and 41. At approximately 5:45 p.m. PST, a black-and-white 1950 Ford Tudor coupe driven at high speed was headed east on Rt. 466 just west of the junction near Shandon. Its driver, 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed, made a left turn onto Route 41 headed north, toward Fresno. As Turnupseed's Ford crossed over the center line, Dean, who was driving at a reported speed of 85 Miles per hour, apparently tried to steer the Spyder in a "side stepping" racing maneuver, but with insufficient time and space, the two cars crashed almost head-on. The Spyder flipped up into the air and landed back on its wheels in a gully, northwest of the junction. The sheer velocity of the impact sent the much-heavier Ford broad-sliding 39 feet down Route 466 in the westbound lane.[43]
According to a story in the October 1, 2005, edition of the Los Angeles Times,[44] California Highway Patrol Captain Ernest Tripke and his partner, Corporal Ronald Nelson, were finishing a coffee break in Paso Robles when they were called to the scene of the accident at the Route 466/41 junction. Before Officers Tripke and Nelson arrived, James Dean had been extricated from the Spyder's mangled cockpit, his left foot having been crushed between the clutch and brake pedal. Dean was severely injured from the crash with a broken neck and several internal and external injuries. Nelson witnessed an unconscious and dying Dean placed into an ambulance, and a barely conscious Wütherich, who had been thrown from the Spyder, lying on the shoulder of the road next to the wrecked Porsche. Dean and Wütherich were taken in the same ambulance to the Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital, 28 miles away. Dean was pronounced dead on arrival at the Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital at 6:20 pm.[45]
Though initially slow to reach newspapers in the eastern United States, details of Dean's death rapidly spread via radio and television. By October 2, his death had received significant coverage from domestic and foreign media outlets.[46] Dean's funeral was held on October 8, 1955 at the Fairmount Friends Church in Fairmount, Indiana. An estimated 600 mourners were in attendance, while another 2400 fans gathered outside the building during the procession.[46]
An inquest into Dean's death occurred on October 11, 1955 at the Paso Robles City Hall, where a verdict governed that he was at fault due to reckless speeding, thus making Turnupseed innocent.[47][48]
Ironically, Dean had appeared in an episode of Warner Brothers Presents a few weeks prior to his death. The segment concerned the subject of drivers' safety and Dean's experience on the road. At the end of the segment, instead of saying the phrase "The life you save may be your own," Dean ad-libbed the line "The life you might save might be mine." After his fatal car accident, the segment was never aired.
Legacy and iconic status
Impact on culture and media
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Dean is mentioned or featured in various songs. The chorus of David Essex's original Rock On includes the refrain "Jimmy Dean. James Dean." Dean is mentioned in Rob Zarro's song Infamous Route 66: "I'm seeing really cool things, pictures of Marilyn and James Dean." The Eagles song named after Dean explores his fast and dangerous lifestyle. John Mellencamp mentions James Dean in the lyrics of Jack & Diane. Phil Ochs has a song titled Jim Dean of Indiana.[54] In addition, James Dean is often noted within television shows, films, books and novels. In an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation, the character Liberty likens the rebellious, anti-social Sean Cameron to James Dean. On the sitcom Happy Days, Fonzie has a picture of Dean in his closet next to his mirror. A picture of Dean also appears on Rizzo's wall in the film Grease. On the American version of the TV series Queer as Folk, the main character Brian Kinney mentions James Dean together with Cobain and Hendrix, saying, "They're all legends. They'll always be young, and they will always be beautiful". In the alternative history book Homeward Bound by Harry Turtledove, Dean is stated to have not died in a car crash and to have made several more films, including Rescuing Private Ranfall, based on Saving Private Ryan.
Dean's estate still earns about $5,000,000 per year, according to Forbes Magazine.[55]
On April 20, 2010, a long "lost" live episode of the General Electric Theater called "The Dark, Dark Hours" featuring James Dean in a performance with Ronald Reagan was uncovered by NBC writer Wayne Federman while working on a Ronald Reagan television retrospective.[56] The episode, originally broadcast December 12, 1954, drew international attention and highlights were featured on numerous national media outlets including: CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, and Good Morning America. It was later revealed that some footage from the episode was first featured in the 2005 documentary, James Dean: Forever Young.[57]
Debated sexual orientation
Today, Dean is often considered an icon because of his "experimental" take on life, which included his ambivalent sexuality.[53] There have been several claims and assertions that Dean has had sexual relationships with both men and women. When questioned about his orientation, he is reported to have said, "No, I am not a homosexual. But, I'm also not going to go through life with one hand tied behind my back."[58]William Bast, one of Dean's closest friends,[20] was Dean's first biographer (1956).[59] He published a revealing update of his first book, in which, after years of successfully dodging the question as to whether he and Dean were sexually involved,[60][61] he finally stated that they experimented.[22] In this second book, Bast describes the difficult circumstances of their involvement and also deals frankly with some of Dean's other reported gay relationships, notably the actor's friendship with Rogers Brackett, the influential producer of radio dramas who encouraged Dean in his career and provided him with useful professional contacts.[62]
Journalist Joe Hyams suggests that any gay activity Dean might have been involved in appears to have been strictly "for trade", as a means of advancing his career. Val Holley notes that, according to Hollywood biographer Lawrence J. Quirk, gay Hollywood columnist Mike Connolly "would put the make on the most prominent young actors, including Robert Francis, Guy Madison, Anthony Perkins, Nick Adams and James Dean."[63] However, the "trade only" notion is debated by Bast[22] and other Dean biographers.[64] Aside from Bast's account of his own relationship with Dean, Dean's fellow biker and "Night Watch" member John Gilmore claims he and Dean "experimented" with gay acts on one occasion in New York, and it is difficult to see how Dean, then already in his twenties, would have viewed this as a "trade" means of advancing his career.[65]
Screenwriter Gavin Lambert, himself gay and part of the Hollywood gay circles of the 1950s and 1960s, described Dean as being gay. Rebel director Nicholas Ray is on record as saying that Dean was gay.[66] Author John Howlett believes that Dean was "certainly bisexual".[31] George Perry's biography reduces these aspects of Dean's sexuality to "experimentation".[67] Bast also shows that Dean had knowledge of gay bars and customs.[68] Consequently, Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon's book Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day (2001) includes an entry on James Dean.[53] However Bast concludes: "Jimmy was a dabbler, he was learning through experiment… But to say he was gay? That's ridiculous."[69]
Stage
Broadway
- See the Jaguar (1952)
- The Immoralist (1954) – based on the book by André Gide
Off-Broadway
- The Metamorphosis (1952) – based on the short story by Franz Kafka
- The Scarecrow (1954)
- Women of Trachis (1954) – translation by Ezra Pound
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Fixed Bayonets! | Doggie | Uncredited |
| 1952 | Sailor Beware | Boxing opponent's second | Uncredited |
| 1952 | Has Anybody Seen My Gal? | Youth at soda fountain | Uncredited |
| 1953 | Trouble Along the Way | Extra | Uncredited |
| 1955 | East of Eden | Cal Trask | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor Jussi Award for Best Foreign Actor |
| 1955 | Rebel Without a Cause | Jim Stark | Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |
| 1956 | Giant | Jett Rink | Golden Globe Special Achievement Award for Best Dramatic Actor Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Family Theater | John | Episode: "Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration" |
| 1951 | The Bigelow Theatre | Hank | Episode: "T.K.O." |
| 1951 | The Stu Erwin Show | Randy | Episode: "Jackie Knows All" |
| 1952 | CBS Television Workshop | G.I. | Segment: "Into the Valley" |
| 1952 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Bradford | Episode: "Forgotten Children" |
| 1952 | The Web | Himself | Episode: "Sleeping Dogs" |
| 1952-1953 | Kraft Television Theatre | Various roles | 3 episodes |
| 1952-1955 | Lux Video Theatre | Various roles | 2 episodes |
| 1953 | The Kate Smith Hour | The Messenger | Episode: "The Hound of Heaven" |
| 1953 | You Are There | Bob Ford | Episode: "The Capture of Jesse James" |
| 1953 | Treasury Men in Action | Various roles | 2 episodes |
| 1953 | Tales of Tomorrow | Ralph | Episode: "The Evil Within" |
| 1953 | Westinghouse Studio One | Various roles | 3 episodes |
| 1953 | The Big Story | Rex Newman | Episode: "Rex Newman, Reporter for the Globe and News" |
| 1953 | Omnibus | Bronco Evans | Episode: "Glory in the Flower" |
| 1953 | Campbell Summer Soundstage | Various roles | 2 episodes |
| 1953 | Armstrong Circle Theatre | Joey Frasier | Episode: "The Bells of Cockaigne" |
| 1953 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Paul Zalinka | Episode: "Harvest" |
| 1953-1954 | Danger | Various roles | 4 episodes |
| 1954 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Rob | Episode: "Run Like a Thief" |
| 1954 | GE True | Various roles | 2 episodes |
| 1955 | The United States Steel Hour | Fernand Lagarde | Episode: "The Thief" |
| 1955 | Schlitz Playhouse | Jeffrey Latham | Episode: "The Unlighted Road" |
| 1955 | Crossroads | Episode: "Broadway Trust" Aired posthumously |
Biographical films
- James Dean: Portrait of a Friend aka James Dean (1976)[70]
- James Dean: The First American Teenager (1976), a television biography that includes interviews with Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood and Nicholas Ray.[71]
- Sense Memories (PBS American Masters television biography) (2005)[72]
- Forever James Dean (1988), Warner Home Video (1995)[73]
- James Dean (fictionalized TV biographical film) (2001)
- James Dean – Kleiner Prinz, Little Bastard aka James Dean – Little Prince, Little Bastard, German television biography, includes interviews with William Bast, Marcus Winslow Jr, Robert Heller (2005)[74]
- James Dean: The Final Day features interviews with William Bast, Liz Sheridan and Maila Nurmi. Dean's bisexuality is openly discussed. Episode of Naked Hollywood television miniseries produced by The Oxford Film Company in association the BBC, aired in the US on the A&E Network, 1991.[75]
- Living Famously: James Dean, Australian television biography includes interviews with Martin Landau, Betsy Palmer, William Bast, and Bob Hinkle (2003, 2006).[76]
- James Dean – Mit Vollgas durchs Leben, Austrian television biography includes interviews with Rolf Weutherich and William Bast (2005).[74]
- James Dean – Outside the Lines (2002), episode of Biography, US television documentary includes interviews with Rod Steiger, William Bast, and Martin Landau (2002).[77]
- Two Friendly Ghosts (2012)[78]
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