Production Designer Bruno Rubeo Dies at 65

Bruno Rubeo, an Oscar-nominated production designer and frequent collaborator of company company directors Taylor Hackford and Oliver Stone, died November. 3 in Trevi, Italia of complications from pneumonia. He was 65.Related Subjects•Obituaries Rubeo's wife is costume designer Mayes Rubeo (Apocalypto, Avatar, John Carter From Mars), and also the boy is veteran art director Marco Rubeo (The Truman Show, Tropic Thunder, Thor). A nearby of Rome, Bruno Rubeo's large break showed up 1986 when Stone attracted on him to produce Salvador, which he as well as the director ongoing to collaborate on Platoon (1986), Talk Radio (1988) and Born round the fourth of the summer time (1989). Rubeo offered as production designer on Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy (1989), he received his Academy Award nomination. Rubeo began coping with Hackford in 1992 round the Chicano gang epic Blood stream In, Blood stream Out. This began Rubeo's longest professional collaboration - he indicated his relationship while using director as "a relationship without sex" - while using duo concentrating on Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Proof of Existence (2000) as well as the extended-postponed Love Ranch (2010). Rubeo also designed such films as Ivan Reitman's Kindergarten Cop (1990), Jon Amiel's Sommersby (1993), Joel Schumacher's The Client (1994), John McTiernan's The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Mike Newell's Pushing Container (1999) and Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice (2004). Rubeo offered inside the Italian navy before moving to Canada, where he labored becoming an art director on several TV and independent film projects. He was art director and production designer on Spring Fever, a 1982 film starring Susan Anton. Related Subjects