The Switchblade Kid

Sal Mineo dancing in the Phillips Productions/Joseph Cates neo-noir thriller Who Killed Teddy Bear?, 1965.

Sal Mineo by Roddy McDowall, 1963.

WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR (1965) Dir. JOSEPH CATES

Sal Mineo in the Phillips Productions/Joseph Cates neo-noir thriller Who Killed Teddy Bear?, 1965.

James Dean, Sal Mineo, director Nicholas Ray and crew at the Griffith Park Observatory planetarium on Mount Hollywood during production of the Warner Bros. drama Rebel Without a Cause, 1955.

James Dean as Jim Stark, Sal Mineo as John "Plato" Crawford, and Natalie Wood as Judy in publicity portraits and production stills shot while making the 1955 Warner Bros./Nicholas Ray drama Rebel Without a Cause and the corresponding scenes as they appeared in the finished film. Also seen in the photos and gifs are Marietta Canty as the Crawford family maid/Plato's guardian, Jim Backus as Frank Stark, Ann Doran as Carol Stark, and Virginia Brissac as Grandma Stark. Note the differences between what appeared in the movie and the photos, the latter of which were shot while alternate takes of scenes were being filmed, snapped from a different angle while a scene was in progress, or staged shots to condense a scene for publicity purposes.

Sal Mineo with James Darren and Sal planted in a broken drum in publicity portraits for the Columbia Pictures/Don Weis dramatic bio-pic The Gene Krupa Story, 1959.

Sal Mineo plays with his dog outside his family's home on the corner of Wenner Place and Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx, New York, November 1st, 1955.

Sal Mineo exercises using a clothesline pole, photo by George Rinhart, 1957.