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River Phoenix
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1970-08-23,Metolius, Oregon USA
Gender
Male
Biography
River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor and musician. Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He had no formal schooling, but showed an instinctive talent for the guitar. He began his acting career at age 10 in television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985) and had his first notable role in 1986's Stand by Me, a coming-of-age film based on the novella The Body by Stephen King. Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing Danny Pope, the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (at age 18, he became the sixth-youngest nominee in the category), and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing Michael Waters, a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 1991 Venice Film Festival as well as Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, becoming the second-youngest winner of the former. Phoenix died at age 23 from combined drug intoxication in West Hollywood in the early hours of Halloween, 1993, having overdosed on cocaine and heroin (a mixture commonly known as speedball) at The Viper Room. Description above from the Wikipedia article River Phoenix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

7.851

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989-05-24

7.856

Stand by Me
1986-08-08

My Own Private Idaho

7.1

My Own Private Idaho
1991-02-01

The Phoenix Portal

0

The Phoenix Portal
2005-01-01

I Love You to Death

6.4

I Love You to Death
1990-04-06

6.9

Sneakers
1992-09-09

The Mosquito Coast

6.369

The Mosquito Coast
1986-11-26

5.9

Little Nikita
1988-03-17

6.2

Explorers
1985-07-12

The Thing Called Love

6.291

The Thing Called Love
1993-08-27

6.9

Dogfight
1991-09-13

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

5

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
1988-07-26

Running on Empty

7.507

Running on Empty
1988-09-09

4.8

Silent Tongue
1993-01-28

This Road Will Never End

1

This Road Will Never End
1996-11-13

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

7.5

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000-08-29

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

0

The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003-06-03

5.25

Surviving
1985-02-10

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford

7.8

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford
2023-12-01

Too Young To Die: River Phoenix

0

Too Young To Die: River Phoenix
2014-08-09

Circle of Violence: A Family Drama

6.7

Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
1986-10-12

Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia

8

Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
1984-03-07

Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes

6.8

Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes
2024-05-12

My Own Private River

7.7

My Own Private River
2012-02-19

The Making of ‘My Own Private Idaho’

5.4

The Making of ‘My Own Private Idaho’
2005-03-01

0

Truth or Dairy
1994-01-01

Flea Master Session

0

Flea Master Session
1992-01-01

6

Dark Blood
2012-09-27

6.9

Showbiz Kids
2020-07-14

River Phoenix Ocean Spray Commercial

0

River Phoenix Ocean Spray Commercial
1982-01-01

Evolution's End?

0

Evolution's End?
1991-01-04

7.3

Family Ties
1982-09-22

6.7

Hotel
1982-08-21

6.8

It's Your Move
1984-09-26

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

7.3

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1982-09-19

Robert Kennedy & His Times

7

Robert Kennedy & His Times
1985-01-27

6

Celebrity
1984-02-12

Too Young to Die

7.2

Too Young to Die
2012-07-14