Ted is the youngest of the three Raimi brothers. The eldest is Ivan Raimi. The middle brother is the famous Sam Raimi, producer, director, actor, screenwriter, and co-founder of Renaissance Pictures.
A Bit of History:
Young Ted had a choice between a successful fashion or furniture career because his mother owned a chain of lingerie shops and his father had his own home furnishings stores. He made a career decision not to follow the family business but chose acting instead. "I could have been the 'Bra King of Michigan,'" he muses. "But I couldn't find a matching girdle."
School:
Ted briefly attended Michigan State University, then went to the University of New York and finally to the University of Detroit.
A Bit About Ted:
He began his acting career in films that his brother Sam directed or produced.
He began his career outside his brother's films by staring in a film called:
Shocker in 1989
Darkman as a bad goon under Durant.
A year later he had his first starring role in Lunatics: A Love Story in 1991.
Patriot Games - played satellite analyst in the CIA
Clear and Present Danger - same role as in Patriot Games
His other motion picture credits include:
Hard Target
Candyman
Born Yesterday
Forced Exposure
Stuart Saves His Family
*Many of these roles are of the blink-and-you'll-miss-him variety*
Army of Darkness (a.k.a. Evil Dead III) in which Ted takes on multiple minor roles
Skinner - 1995 - Dennis Skinner: Ted's second starring role
Television:
He has had guest starring roles on series such as:
"Odyssey 5" (2002) playing "Harry Mudd" in episode: "Trouble with Harry" (episode # 1.13) 6 September 2002
"Invader ZIM" (2001) playing "Holographic Marzoid Head/Invader Skoodge" (voice) in episode: "Battle of the Planets" (episode # 1.15) 5 April 2002
"Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) playing "Alex Kurtzman, Writer" in episode: "Yes, Virginia, There Is Hercules" (episode # 4.15) 23 February 1998
"Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Stranger In A Strange World" (episode # 4.5) 27 October 1997
"Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "When a Man Loves a Woman" (episode # 3.14) 17 February 1997
"American Gothic" (1995) playing "Ted Parker" in episode: "Learning to Crawl" (episode # 1.17) 4 July 1996
"Baywatch" (1989) playing "Leonard" in episode: "Rookie of the Year" (episode # 3.4) 5 October 1992
"Twin Peaks" (1990) playing "Rusty, Heavy Metal Youth" in episode: "The Path to the Black Lodge" (episode # 2.20) 18 April 1991
"Twin Peaks" (1990) playing "Rusty, Heavy Metal Youth" in episode: "Vacations and Relations" (episode # 2.19) 11 April 1991
"ALF" (1986) playing "Julius" (as Theodore Raimi) in episode: "It's My Party" (episode # 4.13) 11 December 1989
"Alien Nation" (1989) playing "Johnny Appleseed" (as Theodore Raimi) in episode: "Chains of Love" (episode # 1.10) 27 November 1989
Joxer
Joxer is a bungling, incompetent fighter who tries to prove himself a mighty warrior, but eventually wins over Xena and Gabrielle who see the trueness of his heart. He first appears in the episode "Callisto" where he begins his quest to glory. He first offers his services to Xena as a warrior, which she refuses. He then turns to Callisto and asks to join her army. She sends him on a mission to capture Gabrielle and bring her back in order to earn his way into her army. After unsucessfully trying to capture Gabrielle, who easily fends him off, he returns to camp. There he finds that Callisto has already taken Gabrielle prisoner herself and gives Joxer a new task. He must kill Gabrielle. Unable to bring himself to do it, he becomes a prisoner along with Gabrielle. They are both freed by Xena after she defeats Callisto.
In the episode "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Aphrodite is bent on breaking up a marriage and turns Joxer into a Xena-like fighting hero. He charms the princess away from the prince and almost starts a war between two kingdoms. Joxer also appears in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" where he brings the head of Orpheus to Xena to get her help. Along with Joxer's help, Xena is able to kill Bacchus and free the young women he had turned into blood sucking bacchae. He earns Xena's respect in "Intimate Strangers" where he valiantly defends Xena's horse, Argo against Callisto, who had injured the animal.
In the slightly more modern episode "The Xena Srolls," it's actually a descendent of Joxer who gives producer Rob Tapert the idea to start the series "Xena: Warrior Princess." Jack Kleinman (Joxer) help Janis Covington (Gabrielle) and Melinda Pappas (Xena) find the Xena Srolls and fend off the Germans who also wish to get their hands on them. And Joxer even gets together with Meg, the Xena look-alike who poses as Xena in the episode "Warrior...Princess...Tramp." (Season 3)
