J. Michael Riva
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- 28. Juni 1948 · Manhattan, New York, USA
- 7. Juni 2012
Biografie
John Michael Riva (June 28, 1948–June 7, 2012), better known as J. Michael Riva, was an American production designer. Riva was born in Manhattan to William Riva, a Broadway set designer, and Maria Elisabeth Sieber, a German-born actress and the daughter of Marlene Dietrich. Riva had three brothers (John Peter, John Paul, and John David). Riva attended the prep school Institute Le Rosey in Switzerland for six years before attending UCLA. Married to Wendy Mickell, he had four sons, Jean-Paul, Mikey, Daniel, and Adam. Riva had a long and prestigious career as an art director and production designer on numerous films, including the 1985 film The Colour Purple, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Other credits include The Goonies (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), A Few Good Men (1992), Spider-Man 3 (2007), Iron Man (2008), and Iron Man 2 (2010). His final films, The Amazing Spider-Man and Django Unchained, were released posthumously. He was the production designer for the opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, as well as for the 74th and 79th Academy Awards in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the latter. Riva suffered a stroke on June 1, 2012, in New Orleans, Louisiana, during production of Django Unchained. He died in a hospital there on June 7, 2012, at age 63. Django director Quentin Tarantino commented, "Michael became a dear friend on this picture, as well as a magnificent, talented colleague." Description above from the Wikipedia article J. Michael Riv, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmografie
- Django Unchained · Production Design
- The Amazing Spider-Man · Production Design
- Iron Man 2 · Production Design
- Sieben Leben · Production Design
- Iron Man · Production Design
- Spider-Man 3 · Production Design
- Das Streben nach Glück · Production Design
- Zathura - Ein Abenteuer im Weltraum · Production Design
- Stealth - Unter dem Radar · Production Design
- 3 Engel für Charlie - Volle Power · Production Design
- The Making of 'The Color Purple' · Selbst
- Evolution · Production Design
- Charlie’s Angels: Getting G’d Up · Selbst
- Charlie’s Angels: Welcome to Angel World · Selbst
- 3 Engel für Charlie · Production Design
- Dienstags bei Morrie · Production Design
- Lethal Weapon 4 - Zwei Profis räumen auf · Production Design
- Sechs Tage, sieben Nächte · Production Design
- Hard Rain · Production Design
- Congo · Production Design
- North · Production Design
- Dave · Production Design
- Eine Frage der Ehre · Production Design
- Radio Flyer - Flug ins Abenteuer · Production Design
- Tango und Cash · Production Design
- Lethal Weapon 2 - Brennpunkt L.A. · Production Design
- Geschichten aus der Gruft · Regie
- Die Geister, die ich rief... · Production Designer, Production Design
- Zwei stahlharte Profis - Lethal Weapon · Production Design
- Auf der Suche nach dem goldenen Kind · Production Design
- Die Farbe Lila · Production Design
- Unglaubliche Geschichten · Regie
- Die Goonies · Production Design
- Die Frau des Profis · Production Design
- Buckaroo Banzai - Die 8. Dimension · Production Design
- Bad Boys - Klein und gefährlich · Production Design
- Halloween II - Das Grauen kehrt zurück · Production Design
- Die Hand · Production Design
- Das Schicksal kennt kein Erbarmen · Production Design
- Eine ganz normale Familie · Art Direction
- Brubaker · Art Direction
- Der rasende Charlie · Art Direction
- Bare Knuckles · Production Design
- Ich hab' dir nie einen Rosengarten versprochen · Production Design
- Bad Georgia Road · Art Direction
- Ilsa - Haremswächterin des Ölscheichs · Production Design