Bruno Rubeo dies at 65

Italian-born production designer and art director Bruno Rubeo, a 1990 Oscar nominee for the best 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 operate until lately, generating 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 around the films "Bloodstream In, Bloodstream Out," "Dolores Claiborne," "The Devil's Advocate" and "Evidence of Existence." He led to numerous films directed by Oliver Stone too: "Salvador," "Platoon," "Talk Radio" and "Born around the 4th of This summer," even dealing with small roles in "Salvador" and "Talk Radio." Rubeo labored with other top 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 2 actioner "The Truly Amazing Raid" and photos in contemporary configurations for example John Grisham adaptation "The Customer,Inch airport terminal dramedy "Pushing Container" and classy 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 created in Rome and gained his first production designer credit around the 1982 comedy "Spring Fever." He's made it by his wife, costume designer Mayes Rubeo a boy, Marco, also a skill director along with a daughter. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com