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Mar 16, 1979 · LOS ANGELES, March 15 (AP) — A pizza deliveryman, Lionel Williams, was sentenced today to at least 50 years in prison for killing Sal Mineo, the actor, and committing 10 robberies. Juage Bonnie ...
Jan 7, 2022 · Sal Mineo was a young sensation in 'Rebel Without a Cause' but his career proved to be rocky and his death, downright tragic. The late director recalled his friend in a 1978 essay for Esquire.
Sal Mineo was an actor, director, and singer who was murdered near his home in West Hollywood in 1976 at the young age of 37. Mineo was born in 1939 into a family of Italian immigrants living in the Bronx. His breakthrough role, which also garnered him an Academy Award nomination, came in 1955 when he played Plato Crawford in Rebel Without a Cause, opposite to James Dean. On ...
Jan 8, 2020 · A A. The murder of "Rebel Without a Cause" star Sal Mineo has been the subject of countless conspiracy theories. The actor was on his way home from rehearsals at the Westwood Playhouse when he was stabbed to death on Feb. 12, 1976, The New York Times reported at the time. Mineo was gay and police first thought this had something to do with his ...
Dec 21, 2018 · December 21, 2018. For two weeks in the fall of 2017, best-selling author James Ellroy re-investigated the 1976 murder of Sal Mineo, the Oscar-nominated actor from Rebel Without a Cause who died ...
Nov 2, 2010 · SAL MINEO, A BIOGRAPHY was adapted for the screen by James Franco. Michaud appears in the Biography Channel/Smart Entertainment production of the documentary CRIME SPECIAL: HOLLYWOOD'S MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMES (2012), and the feature documentary, STEVEN ARNOLD'S HEAVENLY BODIES (2015) about avant-garde filmmaker and photographer, Steven Arnold.
Born in the Bronx on January 10, 1939, Sal Mineo was in a street gang by age eight. Eventually he was given the choice of a juvenile confinement or acting school. Mineo chose acting. His breakthrough film role in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) as Plato, the teen infatuated with Jim (James Dean), earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
