Film & TV
Ted Raimi
born 1965 · actor, director, writer
Detroit-born character actor of the Evil Dead films and Xena, younger brother of director Sam Raimi, who started out in Detroit industrial films.
- Born
Detroit, Michigan
age 60- Birth name
- Theodore Raimi
- Detroit years
- 1965–1980s
- Field
- Film & TV
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Ted Raimi was born into a Jewish family in Detroit, the youngest brother of filmmaker Sam Raimi, and grew up in the Oakland County suburbs. At Groves High School in Beverly Hills he played blues harp, worked as a DJ and belonged to the Groves Cinema Society. At seventeen he started acting professionally in industrial films made in Detroit for Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. He studied at the University of Michigan and New York University before finishing at the University of Detroit. Meanwhile he became a fixture of his brother's films, from a fake Shemp in The Evil Dead, which was shot by the Detroit-area Raimi circle, to the possessed Henrietta in Evil Dead II and newspaper man Hoffman in the Spider-Man trilogy. Television audiences know him as Joxer in Xena: Warrior Princess and as Lt. O'Neill in seaQuest DSV.
Highlights
- Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- Possessed Henrietta in Evil Dead II (1987) and Ash vs Evil Dead
- Ted Hoffman in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007)
- Lt. Tim O'Neill in seaQuest DSV (1993–1996)
- Acted in Detroit industrial films for the Big Three automakers as a teenager
02 / Their Detroit places
Their Detroit places 2
Where they lived, worked, performed and liked to hang out. Closed and demolished places stay here too, because they are part of the city's history.
Studied here · early 1980s
Wylie E. Groves High School
Public high school where Raimi played blues harp, worked as a DJ and joined the Groves Cinema Society.
Studied here · 1980s
University of Detroit (now University of Detroit Mercy)
Jesuit university where Raimi finished his studies after Michigan and NYU; it merged with Mercy College of Detroit in 1990.