River Phoenix
Acting
Born: Aug 23, 1970 — Died: Oct 31, 1993
From: Metolius, Oregon USA
Credits: 30 titles
Biography
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2024 | 6.8 |
| Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford | Self (archive footage) | 2023 | 7.7 |
| My Own Private River | Michael "Mike" Waters (archive footage) | 2012 | 7.5 |
| Dark Blood | Boy | 2012 | 6.0 |
| Final 24: River Phoenix | Self (archive footage) | 2006 | — |
| The Phoenix Portal | Wolfgang Müller / Michael "Mike" … | 2005 | — |
| The Making of ‘My Own Private Idaho’ | Self | 2005 | 5.7 |
| The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | 2003 | 7.5 |
| Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy | Self (archive footage) | 2003 | 7.857 |
| Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me | Self (archive footage) | 2000 | 7.596 |
| This Road Will Never End | Self (archive footage) | 1996 | 3.667 |
| Silent Tongue | Talbot Roe | 1994 | 4.7 |
| Truth or Dairy | Self (archive footage) | 1994 | — |
| The Thing Called Love | James Wright | 1993 | 6.166 |
| Sneakers | Carl | 1992 | 6.913 |
| Flea Master Session | Self | 1992 | — |
| My Own Private Idaho | Mike Waters | 1991 | 7.058 |
| Dogfight | Eddie Birdlace | 1991 | 6.9 |
| Evolution's End? | Self | 1991 | 9.0 |
| I Love You to Death | Devo Nod | 1990 | 6.403 |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Young Indy | 1989 | 7.851 |
| Little Nikita | Jeff Grant | 1988 | 6.09 |
| A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon | Jimmy Reardon | 1988 | 5.056 |
| Running on Empty | Danny Pope | 1988 | 7.443 |
| Stand by Me | Chris Chambers | 1986 | 7.838 |
| The Mosquito Coast | Charlie Fox | 1986 | 6.364 |
| Circle of Violence: A Family Drama | Chris Benfield | 1986 | 6.8 |
| Explorers | Wolfgang Müller | 1985 | 6.275 |
| Surviving | Philip Brogan | 1985 | 5.0 |
| Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia | Brian Ellsworth | 1984 | 8.5 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1970 |
| From | Metolius, Oregon USA |