American film director and producer, born 26 October 1963 in New York City, New York, USA and died 13 January 2002 in Santa Monica, California, USA. Nephew of Jonathan Demme, married to Amanda Scheer-Demme.
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.
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 networks infamous famous black-and-white rants starring then-unknown cigarette-sucking funny guy Denis Leary.
He and his wife, Amanda Scheer-Demme , had a 5-year-old daughter and a 2-month-old son, as of January 2002.
(3 February 2002) Coroners announce that a small amount of cocaine found in Demmes body may have caused his fatal thrombotic heart attack and have ruled the death accidental.
Musician Greg Dulli , who appears with his band, The Afghan Whigs , in Demmes 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 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.
Cousin of Josephine Demme.
Nephew-in-law of Joanne Howard.
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any,sort of foreign film.
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what,my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that,son and his daughter.
