The Guardian: ‘James Dean has got nothing on that kid’: River Phoenix films – ranked!
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River Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix was an American actor and musician. The older brother of actor Joaquin Phoenix, he was known as a teen actor before taking on leading roles in critically acclaimed films, becoming one of the preeminent acting talents of his generation. Phoenix's numerous accolades include the Volpi Cup and the Independent Spirit Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and Golden Globe…
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Born 23 August 1970 · Died 31 October 1993 · Q106514
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Sneakers: Robert Redford and River Phoenix nerd out in 1992’s prescient, high-tech caper
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘It was too much loss. I fell apart’: Samantha Mathis on River Phoenix and her career revival
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His brother Joaquin would claim that River was joking, saying, "It was literally a joke, because he was so tired of being asked ridiculous questions by the press
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death
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That there were talks about him and Phoenix doing a prequel movie together about Phoenix's younger Indy and Young's Fedora
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: River Phoenix's last film makes its entrance 20 years after his exit
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: River Phoenix: the last film
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2011· 1 entry
The Guardian: River Phoenix's final film, Dark Blood, to be released next year
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2003· 1 entry
"it was likely that Phoenix would have followed Interview with the Vampire by appearing as Susan Sarandon's son in Safe Passage (1994), a role that went to Sean Astin
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1996· 1 entry
The Aleka's Attic track "Note to a Friend" was released on the 1996 benefit album In Defense of Animals; Volume II and featured Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass
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1994· 1 entry
As having said, "They're disgusting, they're ruining people's lives
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1993· 6 entries
Arlyn Phoenix (who later changed her name to Heart) published an open letter in the Los Angeles Times on her son's life and death
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Died 1993-10-31.
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Phoenix wrote and recorded the song "Lone Star State of Mine", which he performs in the movie
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Put an end to this option and Dark Horse cancelled their line a few years later, stopping the development of any Indiana Jones films until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
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Dated his The Thing Called Love co-star Samantha Mathis
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“Oh Yeah, we really are great people. I think Keanu and I are the nicest guys on the planet.. with the exception of George Bush and Ronald Reagan”
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for My Own Private Idaho (1992).
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But Phoenix continued writing and performing
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1991· 4 entries
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor for My Own Private Idaho (1991).
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for My Own Private Idaho (1991).
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Phoenix wrote and recorded a spoken word piece called "Curi Curi" for Milton Nascimento's album TXAI
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The Aleka's Attic track "Too Many Colors" was used in the film My Own Private Idaho, which included Phoenix in a starring role
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1990· 1 entry
Phoenix wrote an environmental awareness essay about Earth Day targeted at his young fan base, which was printed in Seventeen magazine
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1989· 2 entries
On a benefit album for PETA titled Tame Yourself
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Portrayed a young Indiana Jones in the prologue of the box-office hit Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the third installment of the Indiana Jones franchise, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford
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1988· 4 entries
Phoenix starred in Little Nikita alongside Sidney Poitier
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That his family's move to Los Angeles when he was nine was so that he and his sister "could become recording artists
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They also co-starred in the 1988 film Running on Empty before the relationship ended in June 1989 due to Phoenix's drug use.
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Phoenix was reportedly carrying around a copy of the memoir The Basketball Diaries (1978)
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1986· 1 entry
Phoenix had written and recorded a song, "Heart to Get", specifically for the end credits of the movie
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1985· 1 entry
And ended in late August 1985 (making Phoenix 14-years-old for most --if not all-- of the movie)
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1983· 1 entry
Phoenix found a new role in the 1984 television movie Celebrity, in which he played the part of young Jeffie Crawford
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1982· 1 entry
Phoenix was cast in the short-lived CBS television series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, in which he starred as youngest brother Guthrie McFadden
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1977· 1 entry
And by the time Phoenix was nine years of age he was again living in the US, in Los Angeles
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1973· 1 entry
The family had joined the religious cult known as the Children of God and settled in Caracas, Venezuela, where the Children of God had stationed them to work as missionaries and fruit gatherers
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1970· 2 entries
Born 1970-08-23.
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In Madras, Oregon, the first child of Arlyn Dunetz and John Lee Bottom
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1968· 1 entry
Phoenix's mother travelled across the United States
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