Ted Demme
Edward "Ted" Demme (born October 26, 1963 in New York , † January 13, 2002 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American director .
Life
Demme began his career as a production assistant at the music broadcaster MTV . Together with his uncle, the director Jonathan Demme (1944-2017), he was responsible for the music video Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen . From 1988 he directed Yo! MTV rapeseed . In his short career, Demme often worked with Denis Leary . His best-known film was Blow with Johnny Depp , Penélope Cruz and Franka Potente in 2001 .
Ted Demme collapsed and suffered a heart attack on January 13, 2002 after playing a charitable celebrity basketball game . Only the 38-year-old was found dead at the Santa Monica Hospital. A later autopsy found small traces of cocaine in his blood. Since Demme had thickened heart arteries and was overweight, it could not be ruled out that the low dose of cocaine also played a role in the heart attack caused by a blocked artery. However, the coroners basically rated the death as an accident.
Filmography (selection)
- 1988: Yo! MTV Raps (TV series)
- 1992: No Cure for Cancer
- 1992: The Bet
- 1993: Who's the Man?
- 1994: No Panic - Good hostages are rare (The Ref)
- 1996: Beautiful Girls
- 1997: Gun (TV series)
- 1997: Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground
- 1997: Denis Leary: Lock 'N Load
- 1998: Monument Ave. (Snitch)
- 1998: Rounders (as producer)
- 1999: Life imprisonment (Life)
- 1999: Action (TV series, episode)
- 1999: Independent (as a performer)
- 2001: Bruce Springsteen : The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000
- 2001: Blow
- 2003: A Decade Under the Influence (Documentation)
Web links
- Ted Demme in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary for Ted Demme in Die Tageszeitung from January 16, 2002
- ↑ Demme took cocaine, says coroner in BBC News of February 3, 2002
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Demme, Ted |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Demme, Edward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2002 |
| Place of death | Santa Monica , California , United States |