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.
2024
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2023
as Self (archive footage)
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2012
as Boy
2012
as Self (archive footage)
2012
as Michael "Mike" Waters (archive footage)
2005
as Self
2005
as Wolfgang Müller / Michael "Mike" Waters (archive footage)
2003
as Self
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1996
as Self (archive footage)
1994
as Self (archive footage)
1993
as James Wright
1993
as Talbot Roe
1992
as Carl
1992
as Self
1991
as Eddie Birdlace
1991
as Michael "Mike" Waters
1991
as Self
1990
as Devo Nod
1989
as Young Indy
1988
as Danny Pope
1988
as Jimmy Reardon
1988
as Jeff Grant
1986
as Charlie Fox
1986
as Chris Benfield
1986
as Chris Chambers
1985
as Wolfgang Müller
1985
as Philip Brogan
1985
as Robert Kennedy Jr.
1984
1984
as Brian Ellsworth
1984
as Jeffie - Age 11
1982
as Eugene Forbes
1982
as Guthrie McFadden
1982
1982
as Self