Joe Alves

Personal Info

Know For

Art

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-05-21 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

San Leandro, California, USA

Joe Alves

Biography

Joe Alves (born 21 May 1936, San Leandro, California) is an American film production designer, perhaps best known for his work on three of the Jaws films. He directed Jaws 3-D. Alves has designed three features for Steven Spielberg, firstly for The Sugarland Express. He designed the three mechanical sharks for the movie Jaws (1975) with mechanical effects man Bob Mattey supervising their physical construction in Sun Valley CA. After the sharks were completed, they were trucked to the shooting location, but unfortunately they had not been tested in water causing a series of delays that have become quite legendary over time. He was nominated ...

Production

1981

Escape from New York

as Production Design

1975

Jaws

as Production Design

1978

Jaws 2

as Production Design

1977

1974

The Sugarland Express

as Art Direction

1970

The Young Country

as Art Direction

1983

Jaws 3-D

as Director

1984

Starman

as Second Unit Director

1973

Isn't It Shocking?

as Art Direction

1969

Change of Habit

as Assistant Art Director

1973

Scream, Pretty Peggy

as Art Direction

1971

1976

Embryo

as Production Design

1973

Double Indemnity

as Art Direction

1997

Fire Down Below

as Production Design

1994

Drop Zone

as Production Design

1993

Geronimo: An American Legend

as Production Design

1973

See the Man Run

as Art Direction

1997

Shadow Conspiracy

as Production Design

2000

1969

Winning

as Art Direction

1988

Everybody's All-American

as Production Design

1970

Pufnstuf

as Art Direction

1978

Jaws 2

as Second Unit Director

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