Webjames dean’s acting career was cut tragically short when he died in a car crash on september 30, 1955. The actor, who was 24 years old at the time, was driving. The porsche spyder 550 he was driving. Webhis sudden, stratospheric rise and equally shockingly abrupt death coincided with the birth of the ‘teenager’ (with whom he is forever mired), the emergence of. Webjames dean died 55 years ago today, killed in a dramatic car wreck east of paso robles that became the stuff of legend. Dean not only appeals to a “mother complex” among teenage girls, but his roles as a troubled insecure youth prompted many young.
