Bruno Rubeo dies at 65

Italian-born production designer and art director Bruno Rubeo, a 1990 Oscar nominee for top art decoration-set decoration for his use Crispian Sallis on "Driving Miss Daisy," died of complications from pneumonia November. 2 in Foligno, Italia. He was 65. Rubeo had ongoing to use until recently, producing his last credit as production designer on Taylor Hackford's 2010 release "Love Ranch," starring Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci. Rubeo also labored with Hackford round the films "Blood stream In, Blood stream Out," "Dolores Claiborne," "The Devil's Advocate" and "Proof of Existence." He brought to several films directed by Oliver Stone too: "Salvador," "Platoon," "Talk Radio" and "Born round the fourth of the summer time," even coping with small roles in "Salvador" and "Talk Radio." Rubeo labored along with other top company company directors, including Ivan Reitman, Joel Schumacher, Mike Newell, John McTiernan, Michael Radford and John Dahl. Other high-profile feature projects incorporated "Old Gringo," occur old Mexico Arnold Schwarzenegger starrer "Kindergarten Cop" Civil War period piece "Sommersby" World war ii actioner "The Fantastic Raid" and photos in contemporary designs for instance John Grisham adaptation "The Client,In . airport terminal terminal dramedy "Pushing Container" and chic remake "The Thomas Crown Affair." In 2004 Rubeo was famous for his production design on Radford's bigscreen "The Merchant of Venice," starring Al Pacino. Rubeo was produced in Rome and acquired his first production designer credit round the 1982 comedy "Spring Fever." He's managed to get by his wife, costume designer Mayes Rubeo a boy, Marco, additionally a skill director together with a daughter. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com