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person_profile-River Phoenix

River Phoenix Died at age: 23

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

River Phoenix

Date of Birth:

Aug 23, 1970

Country of birth:

Oregon USA

Died:

Oct 31, 1993

Biography of

River Phoenix

    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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River Phoenix

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Filmography of

River Phoenix

Found 27 Movies in total

Child Star

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2024

Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes

Self - Actor (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

Showbiz Kids

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2014

Dark Blood

Boy ( Actor )

... 2012

My Own Private River

Michael "Mike" Waters (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2012

Final 24: River Phoenix

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2006

... 2005

The Thing Called Love

James Wright ( Actor )

... 1993

Silent Tongue

Talbot Roe ( Actor )

... 1993

Sneakers

Carl ( Actor )

... 1992

Flea Master Session

Self ( Actor )

... 1992

Dogfight

Eddie Birdlace ( Actor )

... 1991

My Own Private Idaho

Michael "Mike" Waters ( Actor )

... 1991

Evolution's End?

Self ( Actor )

... 1991

I Love You to Death

Devo Nod ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1989

Running on Empty

Danny Pope / Michael Manfield ( Actor )

... 1988

... 1988

Little Nikita

Jeff Grant ( Actor )

... 1988

The Mosquito Coast

Charlie Fox ( Actor )

... 1986

Circle of Violence: A Family Drama

Chris Benfield ( Actor )

... 1986

Stand by Me

Chris Chambers ( Actor )

... 1986

Explorers

Wolfgang Müller ( Actor )

... 1985

Surviving

Philip Brogan ( Actor )

... 1985

Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia

Brian Ellsworth ( Actor )

... 1984