1970-08-23 ( 54 years old ) in Metolius, Oregon USA
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.
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Movies
Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes
2024-05-12
Showbiz Kids
2020-07-14
Too Young To Die: River Phoenix
2014-08-09
Dark Blood
2012-09-27
My Own Private River
2012-02-19
Final 24: River Phoenix
2006-05-27
The Making of ‘My Own Private Idaho’
2005-03-01
The Phoenix Portal
2005-01-01
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003-10-21
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003-06-03
This Road Will Never End
1996-11-13
Truth or Dairy
1994-01-01
The Thing Called Love
1993-08-27
Silent Tongue
1993-01-28
Sneakers
1992-09-09
Flea Master Session
1992-01-01
Dogfight
1991-09-13
My Own Private Idaho
1991-02-01
Evolution's End?
1991-01-04
I Love You to Death
1990-04-06
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989-05-24
Running on Empty
1988-09-09
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
1988-07-26
Little Nikita
1988-03-17
The Mosquito Coast
1986-11-26
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
1986-10-12
Stand by Me
1986-08-08
Explorers
1985-07-12
Surviving
1985-02-10
Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
1984-03-07
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