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Film & TV
San Leandro, California, USA
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…
Known for
- The Farmer and the Shark — Self2025
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self2025
- Sharksploitation — Self2024
- Jaws, a Monstrous Success — Self - set designer2024
- Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York' — Self2018
- Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage2016
- The Shark Is Still Working — Self2009
- 3D: A Brief History2004
- Return to 'Escape from New York' — Himself2003
- The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' — Self2001
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Alves
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Leandro
- Occupation
- television director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film
- Image
- Joe Alves in San Francisco, 2013.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1936-05-21
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- end of work period
- 2001-00-00
- birth name
- Joseph Manuel Alves
- Commons category
- Joe Alves
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