Sal Mineo

Sal Mineo was born on Jan 10, 1939 in USA. Sal Mineo's big-screen debut came with Hallmark Hall of Fame - Season 1 directed by William Corrigan in 1952, strarring Charles / Les. Sal Mineo is known for Harry O directed by Richard Lang, David Janssen stars as Harry Orwell and Anthony Zerbe as Lt. K.C. Trench. Sal Mineo has got 2 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Sal Mineo achieved is Golden Globes, USA. The upcoming new tvshow Sal Mineo plays is S.W.A.T. - Season 1 which will be released on Feb 17, 1975.

Salvatore (Sal) Mineo Jr. was born to Josephine and Sal Sr. (a casket maker), who emigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. His siblings were Michael, Victor and Sarina. Sal was thrown out of parochial school and, by age eight, was a member of a street gang in a tough Bronx neighborhood. His mother enrolled him in dancing school and, after being arrested for robbery at age ten, he was given a choice of juvenile confinement or professional acting school.He soon appeared in the theatrical production "The Rose Tattoo" with Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach and as the young prince in "The King and I" with Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner. At age 16 he played a much younger boy in La police était au rendez-vous (1955) with Tony Curtis and later that same year played Plato in James Dean's La Fureur de vivre (1955). He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in this film and again for his role as Dov Landau in Exodus (1960).Expanding his repertoire, Mineo returned to the theatre to direct and star in the play "Fortune and Men's Eyes" with successful runs in both New York and Los Angeles. In the late 1960s and 1970s he continued to work steadily in supporting roles on TV and in film, including Dr. Milo in Les Évadés de la planète des singes (1971) and Harry O (1973). In 1975 he returned to the stage in the San Francisco hit production of "P.S. Your Cat Is Dead". Preparing to open the play in Los Angeles in 1976 with Keir Dullea, he returned home from rehearsal the evening of February 12th when he was attacked and stabbed to death by a stranger. A drifter named Lionel Ray Williams was arrested for the crime and, after trial in 1979, convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder, but was paroled in 1990. Although taken away far too soon, the memory of Sal Mineo continues to live on through the large body of TV and film work that he left behind.