This candid black-and-white image features actor James Dean behind the scenes while filming, working with a film camera and wearing a cowboy hat. James Dean was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956).