Joe Alves

Production Designer

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Also Known As

Joseph Alves, Joseph Alves Jr.

Birth Place

San Leandro, California, USA

Born

May 21, 1938

Biography

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Alves has designed three feature for Steven Spielberg, including "Jaws" (1975) and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), for which he earned an Oscar nomination. He created a memorably derelict Gotham City for John Carpenter's science-fiction adventure, "Escape from New York" (1981) and served as visual consultant on Carpenter's "Starman" (1984). Alves made an inauspicious directi...

Filmography

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Freejack (1991)

Associate Producer

Associate Producer

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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Can You Tell Me Where Cornbread Is?

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Get Creative

Biography

Alves has designed three feature for Steven Spielberg, including "Jaws" (1975) and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), for which he earned an Oscar nomination. He created a memorably derelict Gotham City for John Carpenter's science-fiction adventure, "Escape from New York" (1981) and served as visual consultant on Carpenter's "Starman" (1984). Alves made an inauspicious directing debut with "Jaws 3-D" (1983).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Producer (Feature Film)

Freejack (1991)

Associate Producer

Associate Producer

Art Director (Feature Film)

The Sugarland Express (1974)

Pufnstuf (1970)

Company of Killers (1970)

Change of Habit (1969)

Assistant art Director

Production Designer (Feature Film)

Sinbad: Beyond the Veil Mists (2000)

Production Designer

Fire Down Below (1997)

Production Designer

Shadow Conspiracy (1997)

Production Designer

Drop Zone (1994)

Production Designer

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

Production Designer

Freejack (1991)

Production Designer

Everybody's All-American (1988)

Production Designer

Escape From New York (1981)

Production Designer

Production Designer

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Production Designer

Production Designer

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Life Events

1969

Worked as production designer of "Winning"

1974

First collaboration with Steven Spielberg, "The Sugarland Express"

1981

First collaboration with John Carpenter, "Escape From New York"

1983

Feature directing debut, "Jaws 3-D"

Videos

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Can You Tell Me Where Cornbread Is? On the first night of blackouts sweeping across Indiana, lineman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) encounters director Steven Spielberg’s gimmick with the headlights, and a famous sequence from special effects expert Douglas Trumbull, in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1977.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Get Creative Following weird events in Mexico, at Indianapolis air traffic control and in rural Muncie, we meet Indiana power company lineman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr his wife Ronnie), called in to help with mass blackouts, early in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1977.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) -- (Movie Clip) At Devil's Tower First Roy (Richard Dreyfuss), taking a break to beg his wife to come home, then Jillian (Melinda Dillon), see TV news reports identifying the mountain with which they’ve both been obsessed with since their UFO experiences, in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1977.

Escape From New York (1981) -- (Movie Clip) David 14 Having established the year 1997 and Manhattan as a prison, top cop Hauk (Lee Van Cleef) is introduced, Nancy Stephens the lone hijacker, Donald Pleasence the president, in John Carpenter's Escape From New York, 1981.

Escape From New York (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Call Me Snake In 1997, chief cop Hauk (Lee Van Cleef) takes a call from the veep about the president held hostage on Manhattan, the prison, then consults with just-arrived inmate Plisskin (Kurt Russell), in John Carpenter's Escape From New York, 1981.

Escape From New York (1981) -- (Movie Clip) I've Got His Pulse tbd

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - (Special Edition Trailer) This is the theatrical trailer for the "Special Edition" of Steven Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi classic starring Richard Dreyfuss and Melinda Dillon.

Sugarland Express, The - (Original Trailer) Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature stars Goldie Hawn in a rare dramatic outing, The Sugarland Express (1974).

Jaws - (Original Trailer) Steven Spielberg's first "monster" hit was Jaws (1975) about a great white shark terrorizing a beach community.

Winning - (Original Trailer) A racecar driver (Paul Newman) risks his marriage in pursuit of speed and success. Co-starring Joanne Woodward.

Family

Joseph Alves

Father

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