J. Michael Riva
Art
Born 1948-06-28
Died 2012-06-07
Manhattan, New York, USA
46 credits
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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."
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Filmography
Other credits
41 credits
The Amazing Spider-Man
Spider-Man 3
Iron Man
Django Unchained
Iron Man 2
The Pursuit of Happyness
Lethal Weapon
Charlie's Angels
Lethal Weapon 2
The Goonies
Lethal Weapon 4
Seven Pounds
A Few Good Men
Zathura: A Space Adventure
Evolution
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Ordinary People
Tango & Cash
Six Days Seven Nights
Halloween II
The Color Purple
Bad Boys
The Golden Child
Congo
Stealth
Scrooged
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Dave
Brubaker
Hard Rain
North
Radio Flyer
Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
The Hand
Bare Knuckles
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Slugger's Wife
Callie & Son
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
Bad Georgia Road
Acting
4 credits
Scrooged
The Making of 'The Color Purple'
Charlie’s Angels: Welcome to Angel World
Charlie’s Angels: Getting G’d Up
Directing
2 credits
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