Production Designer Bruno Rubeo Dies at 65

Bruno Rubeo, an Oscar-nominated production designer and frequent collaborator of 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 the boy is veteran art director Marco Rubeo (The Truman Show, Tropic Thunder, Thor). A local of Rome, Bruno Rubeo's large break arrived 1986 when Stone drawn on him to create Salvador, and that he and also the director continued to collaborate on Platoon (1986), Talk Radio (1988) and Born around the 4th of This summer (1989). Rubeo offered as production designer on Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy (1989), that he received his Academy Award nomination. Rubeo started dealing with Hackford in 1992 around the Chicano gang epic Bloodstream In, Bloodstream Out. This started Rubeo's longest professional collaboration - he indicated his relationship using the director as "a married relationship without sex" - using the duo focusing on Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Evidence of Existence (2000) and also the lengthy-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 Customer (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 within the Italian navy before moving to Canada, where he labored being 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