Sam Raimi's Biography

Raimi is executive producer of the hit syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena:
Warrior Princess with Tapert, his production partner for more than 20 years. Raimi has executive produced and co-wrote the two-hour series pilot of M.A.N.T.I.S. for Fox and executive produced the critically acclaimed series American Gothic for CBS.

Known for his wildly imaginative filmmaking style, Raimi began directing short films at the age of 13 using a 30-minute, Super 9 horror film (the template for the cult favorite The Evil Dead) to raise funds from investors. Raimi left college to form Renaissance Pictures with Tapert and longtime friend and actor Bruce Campbell. Out of this association came the trio's first feature film, The Evil Dead. Written and directed by Raimi, produced by Tapert and starring Campbell, this ultra-low budget horror movie became an immediate cult hit at the Cannes Film Festival. The Evil Dead was soon followed by the equally impressive The Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn.

Raimi also proved his mastery over the mainstream fantasy thriller genre with Darkman, starring Liam Neeson and Larry Drake. He directed and co-wrote Universal's Army of Darkness, an outrageously comic sword-and-sorcery fantasy starring Bruce Campbell; executive produced the feature film Hard Target and Timecop, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme; co-wrote The Hudsucker Proxy, starring Paul Newman, Tim Robbins and Jennifer Jason Leigh; and directed the high-action western The Quick and the Dead starring Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman.

Raimi attended Michigan State University where he met Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert. He currently resides in California.

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