Oscar-nominated actor whose career was cut short by his drug-related death at the age of 23. DS, four-page photocopy contract signed in black ballpoint on the last page, 8.5 x 11, August 28, 1984. Phoenix agrees to appear in the role of Philip in the television film Surviving. It wasn’t until the following year that the fourteen-year-old Phoenix would star in his first theatrical feature, the science-fiction adventure Explorers, launching a brilliant but brief film career. Because of his early death, signed Phoenix items are in short supply, and documents from this early stage of his career are exceedingly scarce. In fine condition, with usual staple and filing holes at top. R&R COA.
