Production designer Joe Alves is best known for his work with Steven Spielberg, with whom he has worked on four films. Before beginning his career, he studied at San Jose State, Chinaurd Institute (where he majored in motion picture design) and at USC. During the 1950s, he worked as an assistant animator at Disney. He then went on to work as a set designer for stage and television productions. Upon establishing himself in feature films, Alves became distinguished for his work in science fiction. It is Alves who created Bruce the shark, the deadly protagonist of Spielberg's Jaws (1975). For his design of the mother ship in another Spielberg production Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Alves won a British Academy Award. He made his directorial debut in 1983 with the unmemorable film Jaws 3-D. During the '80s and '90s, Alves has worked in various capacities ranging from assistant director to visual consultant to associate producer.
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The Shark Is Still Working
Interviewee |
2006 | |||
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Fire Down Below
Production Designer |
1997 | |||
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Shadow Conspiracy
Production Designer |
1997 | |||
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Drop Zone
Production Designer |
1994 | |||
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Geronimo: An American Legend
Production Designer |
1993 | |||
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Freejack
Associate Producer, Production Designer |
1992 | |||
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Everybody's All-American
Production Designer |
1988 | |||
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Starman
Second Unit Director |
1984 | |||
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Jaws 3
Director |
1983 | |||
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Escape from New York
Production Designer |
1981 | |||
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Jaws 2
Production Designer, Second Unit Director |
1978 | |||
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Production Designer |
1977 | |||
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Embryo
Art Director |
1976 | |||
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Jaws
Production Designer |
1975 | |||
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Company of Killers
Art Director |
1970 | |||
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Pufnstuf
Art Director |
1970 | |||
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Winning
Art Director |
1969 |
