Joe Alves
Birthday
1936/05/21 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
San Leandro, California, USA
Also know as
Joseph Alves Jr.
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 l...Read more
Acting
Not Your Average Joe
as Self
(2009) The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
as Self
(2024) Sharksploitation
as Self
(1995) The Making of 'Jaws'
as Self
(2001) The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
as Self
(2004) 3D: A Brief History
as ---
(2018) Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York'
as Self
(2016) Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
as ---
(2024) Les dents de la mer, l'histoire d'un succès monstre
as Self - set designer