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River Phoenix
(1970-1993)
Who Was River Phoenix?
River Phoenix was an American actor who had his breakthrough film role in Stand by Me, based on the novella by Stephen King.
He earned an Academy Award nomination for Sydney Lumet's Running on Empty, and also starred as the young Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Phoenix died of a drug overdose outside West Hollywood's Viper Room in 1993.
Early Life
Born River Jude Bottom on August 23, 1970, in Madras, Oregon.
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Considered one of the most talented actors of his generation, River Phoenix had his promising career cut short by his premature death in 1993. He was born on a farm where his parents, John Lee Bottom and Arlyn Dunetz, were working.
The couple followed a bohemian lifestyle, moving around a lot with their infant son. They named their son after the river of life in Hermann Hesse’s book Siddhartha.
In 1972, the Bottoms took their lives in a new direction, joining the Children of God religious movement.
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