River Phoenix: 13 pictures that prove the actor is the ultimate bad boy of the 80s

With her piercing blue eyes and her angelic face a bit rebellious, River Phoenix quickly marked American cinema. Carried away very young – at 23 – by an overdose on October 31, 1993, he became known in 1986 with his character Chris Chambers in Stand by me by Rob Reiner, adapted from a work by Stephen King, where his role as a young teenager from a problematic family makes him notice. A brief but dazzling career followed, which earned him the title of one of the “most promising actors of 1986”. Bad boy at heart both in his lifestyle and in the roles he plays, Vogue Men returns in pictures to the stainless style of the icon.

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