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Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age melodrama film, [3] [4] [5] directed by Nicholas Ray. The film stars James Dean , Natalie Wood , Sal Mineo , Jim Backus , Ann Doran , Corey Allen and William Hopper .
Allen was best known for his role as gang leader Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without A Cause. James Dean starred as Jim Stark, a disaffected teenager who has moved to Los Angeles to start a new life, only to find more problems in his new home.
Henning began to focus on acting in her late teens. Her career began in 1953. Her earliest acting roles include Rebel Without a Cause, Bus Stop and Gidget. She was cast as a dancer in the Columbia Pictures film Bye Bye Birdie (1963). She appeared in numerous musicals, including High Button Shoes, Brigadoon and The Sound of Music. [citation needed]
Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at age 17, making him the fifth-youngest nominee in the category.
Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock [a] (July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968), better known as Nick Adams, was an American film and television actor and screenwriter.He was noted for his roles in several Hollywood films during the 1950s and 1960s, including Rebel Without a Cause and Giant along with his starring role in the ABC television series The Rebel (1959–1961).
Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress, possibly best known as Carol Stark, the mother of James "Jim" Stark in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). [1] She was an early member of the Screen Actors Guild and served on the board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund for 30 years. [2]
James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989) was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, [1] the voice of the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, [2] the rich Hubert Updike III on the radio version of The Alan Young Show, and Joan Davis ...
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor.Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" [1] and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," [1] Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood ...