Sal Mineo Overview:

Legendary actor, Sal Mineo, was born Salvatore Mineo Jr. on Jan 10, 1939 in The Bronx, NY. Mineo died at the age of 37 on Feb 12, 1976 in West Hollywood, CA and was laid to rest in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, NY.

MINI BIO:

Dark-haired, soulful-eyed, faintly sullen-looking Italianate actor who went to Hollywood after stage success in The Kind and I, and played a variety of voluble (mostly sympathetic) tearaways from the wrong side of the tracks that reflected his own Bronx upbringing. Stabbed to death in an alleyway near his home, the killer not being found until two years later. Oscar-nominated for Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Mineo was nominated for two Oscars, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1955Best Supporting ActorRebel without a Cause (1955)PlatoNominated
1960Best Supporting ActorExodus (1960)Dov LandauNominated
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Happy Birthday! To Actors: Paul Henreid, Ray Bolger and Sal Mineo, born on January 10th (2)

By C. S. Williams on Jan 10, 2014 From Classic Film Aficionados

Paul Henreid Paul Henreid found his claim to fame rooted in his performances in films from 1939 through 1945, wherein he appeared in some of the best movies of that era, with Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1939,?Joan of Paris, 1942 and Casablanca, 1942, those being his best and each becoming true classic films ... Read full article


Happy Birthday! To Actors: Paul Henreid, Ray Bolger and Sal Mineo, born on January 10th

By C. S. Williams on Jan 10, 2014 From Classic Film Aficionados

Paul Henreid Paul Henreid found his claim to fame rooted in his performances in films from 1939 through 1945, wherein he appeared in some of the best movies of that era, with Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1939,?Joan of Paris, 1942 and Casablanca, 1942, those being his best and each becoming true classic films ... Read full article


Happy Birthday! To Actors: Paul Henreid, Ray Bolger and Sal Mineo, born on January 10th

By C. S. Williams on Jan 10, 2014 From Classic Film Aficionados

Paul Henreid Paul Henreid found his claim to fame rooted in his performances in films from 1939 through 1945, wherein he appeared in some of the best movies of that era, with Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1939,?Joan of Paris, 1942 and Casablanca, 1942, those being his best and each becoming true classic films ... Read full article


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Sal Mineo Quotes:

[Gene is offered a marijuana cigarette]
Gene Krupa: Reefers huh? So that's what they look like.


Dov Landau: [explaining to the leaders of the Irgun how he survived Auschwitz] The Germans used me -- like you would use a woman.


Angelo Barrato: I'm the victim of the greatest social disease of our generation: parents.


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Sal Mineo Facts
Many bizarre rumors floated around about his murder, but when his killer, Lionel Ray Williams, was caught, he turned out to be a drug-addled 17-year-old who had no idea who Mineo was and was only interested in the money he had on him.

Traded on his acting popularity to become a pop singer. He recorded several songs, including "Love Affair" (1957), "Lasting Love" (1957), "Party Time" (1957), "Seven Steps to Love" (1958), "Baby Face" (1958), "Make Believe Baby" (1959) and "Young as We Are" (1959).

In early 1962, he posed nude in several sessions for Harold Stevenson, known for his large-scale homoerotic painting and drawings. Stevenson gave one of them to Mineo for his own. A huge painting of Sal was eventually exhibited at the Richard Feigen Gallery in New York and Chicago in 1964.

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