River Phoenix 1970-1993
River Phoenix made his film debut in Explorers in 1985 as Ben's geeky friend, Wolfgang Muller. that same year he guest starred on the Season 4 episode of Family Ties titled My Tutor with Michael J. Fox. Explorers was beaten at the Box-Office by Fox's time-travel movie, Back to the Future. Phoenix later co-starred with Wil Weaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell in Stand by Me in 1986. Later, Phoenix played young Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989 which starred Harrison Ford. Ford Co-starred with Phoenix in The Mosquito Coast. River Phoenix died of a drug overdose on Halloween Night 1993, eight years after Explorers came out.
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