James Byron Dean was born February 8th, 1931, in Marion, Indiana. His father, being a dental technician, was required to move to LA when James was only five years old., so the family packed up and moved out. When his mother, Mildred Dean, passed away four years later, James moved back to the Midwest to be raised by his aunt and uncle. During high school, James was always successful in sports, band, drama, and art, and received many awards for them. Once he graduated high school, he went back to California to attend Santa Monica Junior College and continued onto UCLA. This was the beginning of James’s acting career. He attended acting workshops, occasionally appearing in commercials, his first one being an extra in a Coca-Cola commercial. He obtained some roles on stage and in film. Actor James Whitmore advised James to move to NYC to engage in a serious acting career. After several little jobs, he was cast as a main character in See The Jaguar in ’53 and The Immoralist in ’54. This was only the start of James’s career.
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