Name: Ted Demme
Date of Birth: 26 October 1963 He co-directed Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Philadelphia" music video. Nephew of Jonathan Demme Frequently cast Noah Emmerich. Collapsed after playing in a celebrity basketball game for the NBA Entertainment League and died a few hours later at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. Demme started his career from the bottom rung, working as a production assistant at MTV before going on to create Yo! MTV Raps and directing other spots, including the cable network's infamous famous black-and-white rants starring then-unknown cigarette-sucking funnyguy Denis Leary. ... He and his wife had a 5-year-old daughter and a 2-month-old son, as of January 2002. Coroners announce that a small amount of cocaine found in Demme's body may have caused his fatal thrombotic heart attack and have ruled the death accidental. [3 February 2002] Musician Greg Dulli who appears with his band The Afghan Whigs in Demme's film, Beautiful Girls, was so distraught when he heard of his death that he scrapped a nearly completed album for his band, The Twilight Singers, and wrote an entirely new set of songs. The original ending of The Ref (1994) had Denis Leary being caught by the cops to show the son that a life of crime leads nowhere. However, after screening the movie to a test audience and receiving negative comments about the ending, Ted changed it. He later admitted he regretted the change. Read more Ted Demme movies (director)User Comments |
