River Phoenix
Biografia
River Jude Phoenix (née Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor, musician, and activist. Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the oldest brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He had no formal schooling, but he showed an instinctive talent for the guitar, and he played and sang on the streets for money. He began his acting career at age 10 in a handful of television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985) and had his breakthrough 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 fought heroin addiction and died at age 23 from combined drug intoxication in West Hollywood in the early hours of Halloween, 1993, after unknowingly ingesting cocaine and heroin (a mixture commonly known as a speedball) at The Viper Room.
Filmografia
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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Film • 2026
jako Self (archive footage)
Joaquin Phoenix — Schauspieler der Extreme
Film • 2024
jako Self - Actor (archive footage)
Bohaterowie wszech czasów: Indiana Jones i Harrison Ford
Film • 2023
jako Self (archive footage)
Showbiz Kids
Film • 2020
jako Self
Dark Blood
Film • 2012
jako Boy
Too Young to Die
Serial • 2012
jako Self (archive footage)
My Own Private River
Film • 2012
jako Michael "Mike" Waters (archive footage)
Final 24: River Phoenix
Film • 2006
jako Self (archive footage)
The Phoenix Portal
Film • 2005
jako Wolfgang Müller / Michael "Mike" Waters (archive footage)
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Film • 2003
jako Self (archive footage)
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
Film • 2003
jako Self (archive footage)
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Film • 2003
jako Self
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Film • 2000
jako Self (archive footage)
This Road Will Never End
Film • 1996
jako Self (archive footage)
Cicha zemsta
Film • 1994
jako Talbot Roe
Truth or Dairy
Film • 1994
jako Self (archive footage)
W pogoni za sukcesem
Film • 1993
jako James Wright
Włamywacze
Film • 1992
jako Carl
Flea Master Session
Film • 1992
jako Self
Amerykańskie psy
Film • 1991
jako Eddie Birdlace
Moje własne Idaho
Film • 1991
jako Mike Waters
Evolution's End?
Film • 1991
jako Self
Kocham cię na zabój
Film • 1990
jako Devo Nod
Indiana Jones i ostatnia krucjata
Film • 1989
jako Young Indy
Stracone lata
Film • 1988
jako Danny Pope
Mały Nikita
Film • 1988
jako Jeff Grant
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
Film • 1988
jako Jimmy Reardon
Wybrzeże moskitów
Film • 1986
jako Charlie Fox
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
Film • 1986
jako Chris Benfield
Stań przy mnie
Film • 1986
jako Chris Chambers
Odkrywcy
Film • 1985
jako Wolfgang Müller
Surviving
Film • 1985
jako Philip Brogan
Robert Kennedy & His Times
Serial • 1985
jako Robert Kennedy Jr.
It's Your Move
Serial • 1984
jako Brian
Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
Film • 1984
jako Brian Ellsworth
Celebrity
Serial • 1984
jako Young Jeffie Crawford
Family Ties
Serial • 1982
jako Eugene Forbes
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Serial • 1982
jako Guthrie McFadden
Hotel
Serial • 1982