Sal Mineo

At 37 years old, Sal Mineo physical status not available right now. We will update Sal Mineo's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939-to-date, 1976) was an American film and theatre actor and producer.

Mineo is best known for his role in the film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), where he stars John "Plato" Crawford opposite James Dean.

Mineo was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus (1960).

Mineo's acting career in the 1950s slowed in his adult years.

In 1976, he was assassinated.

Early life and education

Mineo was born in The Bronx, New York City, and the son of coffin manufacturers Josephine (née Alvisi) and Salvatore Mineo Sr. He was of Sicilian descent; his father was born in Italy; and his mother, who was of Italian origins, was born in the United States. Mineo was the brother of actor Sarina Mineo and actress Michael Mineo and Victor Mineo. He attended the Quintano School for Young Professionals. Sal Mineo was one of the few Italian-American actors of his period to keep his last name, claiming that he was proud of his roots and culture.

Personal life

Mineo confessed to bisexuality in a 1972 interview with Boze Hadleigh. On the set of the 1960 film Exodus, the pair met English-born actress Jill Haworth, who portrayed young lovers. Mineo and Haworth were on-and-off for many years. At one time, they were planning to marry. Haworth resigned after she discovered Mineo engaging in sexual relations with another man, according to Mineo biographer Michael Gregg Michaud. Until Mineo's death, the two remained close friends. Mineo expressed disappointment with Haworth's brief encounter with Israeli television executive Aaron Spelling. "Do you know how old she is?" Mineo shouted at Spelling in the face as he discovered Haworth and Spelling at a private Beverly Hills nightclub one night, yelling, "Do you know how old she is?" What are you doing with her at this age?" He was in a six-year marriage with male comedian Courtney Burr III at the time of his suicide.

Source

Acting career

At an early age, Mineo's mother accepted him in dancing and acting classes. In Tennessee Williams' play The Rose Tattoo (1951), he made his first appearance on stage. In the stage musical The King and I, Benjamin Brynner played the young prince opposite Yul Brynner.

Mineo portrayed the Page (lip-synching to the voice of mezzo-soprano Carol Jones) in Richard Strauss's production of Salome (in English translation), which was close to Oscar Wilde's performance on May 8, 1954. Elaine Malbin played the title role in this film, and Kirk Browning directed Kirk Browning's production.

Mineo appeared on ABC's musical quiz show Jukebox Jury as a teen. Mineo made several television appearances before making his film debut in Joseph Pevney's film Six Bridges to Cross (1955). Clint Eastwood was beaten for the role by him. Mineo also applied for a role in The Private War of Major Benson (1955), as a cadet colonel opposite Charlton Heston.

Mineo's breakthrough as an actor came in the film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he played John "Plato" Crawford, a vulnerable teen smitten with main character Jim Stark (played by James Dean). Mineo's success earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He became the fifth-youngest nominee in the category at age 17. Paul Jeffers, Mineo's biographer, revealed that the most popular female followers were greeted by them at public appearances, and that "He dated the most beautiful women in Hollywood and New York City."

Mineo played Angel Obregon II, a Mexican boy killed in World War II, in Giant (1956). Several of his subsequent appearances were based on his character in Rebel Without a Cause, and he was often depicted as a troubled teen. Mineo played as a young Sioux called White Bull, who traps and domesticates a strong, spirited wild horse named Tonka, the lone survivor of Custer's Last Stand, in the Disney film Tonka (1958). Mineo, a major celebrity by the late 1950s, was a hit kid in the country. He was sometimes referred to as the "Switchblade Kid," a term he earned from his time as a criminal in the film Crime in the Streets (1956).

Mineo made a brief foray into pop music by recording a handful of songs and an album in 1957. In the United States' Billboard Hot 100, two of his singles made it to the top 40. "Start Movin" (In My Direction), the more popular of the two books, debuted at No. 1 on the charts. Billboard's pop chart has 9 spots on Billboard's pop chart. It was sold over one million copies and was given a gold disc. Gene Krupa appeared in the film The Gene Krupa Story (1959), directed by Don Weis, James Darren, and Susan Oliver. On the episode of What's My Line, he appeared as the celebrity guest challenger on June 30, 1957.

Mineo attempted to break the mold by casting iron. In addition to his appearances in Tonka (1956), and a Mexican boy in Giant (1956), he served as a Jewish Holocaust survivor in Exodus (1960); for his Exodus (1960), he received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Mineo was already old enough to play the sort of role that had made him popular by the 1960s, and rumors of his homosexuality led to his exclusion from leading roles. For example, he auditioned for David Lean's film Lawrence of Arabia (1962), but was not hired. Mineo appeared in The Longest Day (1962), in which he portrayed a German in the landing in Sainte-Mère-Église. Mineo was baffled by his sudden demise of fame, and later said, "One minute it seemed that I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next, no one wanted me."

Mineo was the model for Harold Stevenson's painting The New Adam (1963) by Mineo. The painting is now in the Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection, as "one of the great American nudes" is on display. Mineo appeared on the Patty Duke Show's Season 2 episode, "Patty Meets a Celebrity" (1964).

Mineo's role as a stalker in Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965), which co-starred Juliet Prowse, did not seem to improve his career. Despite being lauded by critics, he was branded once more — this time as a homeless criminal. Uriah's portrayal in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) was the pinnacle of this period. Mineo appeared in an episode of the TV show Combat! In 1966, a GI wanted to murder a GI. He appeared in two more appearances on the same program, including two in a joint appearance with Fernando Lamas.

Mineo returned to the stage in 1969 to direct a Los Angeles production of Fortune and Men's Eyes (1967), starring then-unknown Don Johnson as Smitty and Mineo. The show received rave reviews, but it was chastised for the increased presence of rape in jail. Mineo's last film appearance in a motion picture was a small part of the film Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971); he played the chimpanzee Dr. Milo.

Mineo stage-directed the Gian Carlo Menotti short opera in Detroit in December 1972. Madame Flora, Muriel Costa-Greenspon's title character, was portrayed by Muriel Costa-Greenspon, and Toby, the mute, was played by Mineo. In the Columbo episode "A Case of Immunity," portraying a Middle Eastern country's assistant to a murderous consular head (portrayed by Hector Elizondo) in 1975, Mineo appeared as Rahman Habib, the assistant to a murderous consular head (portrayed by Hector Elizondo). One of his last appearances was on the television show S.W.A.T.. (1975), in which he portrayed a cult leader like Charles Manson, he also portrayed a cult leader.

Mineo's career had begun to turn around by 1976. In a sequence of stage performances of the comedy P.S., I played a bisexual burglar. Your Cat Is Dead in San Francisco, Mineo, garnered a lot of attention; he travelled to Los Angeles along with the play.

Source