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The twenty-first century... ...Mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth, ...the Ocean. As Captain of the seaQuest and her Crew we are its guardians. ... For beneath the surface... ... Lies The Future.
Captain Nathan Hale Brigder, UEO
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Character
 Lieutenant J.G. Tim O'Neil
SeaQuest's industrious and talented communications
officer. A good man in an emergency, despite suffering from
claustrophobia.
Biography:
Theodore Raimi, a native of Detroit, was born on December 14, 1965, and is the youngest of the three Raimi brothers. The eldest is Ivan Raimi, a doctor, whose writing credits include Army of Darkness and Darkman and who had co-creator credit for the recent TV series Spy Game. The middle brother is the famous Sam Raimi; producer, director, actor, screenwriter, and co-founder of Renaissance Pictures.
Young Ted had a choice between fashion and furniture careers because his mother owned a chain of lingerie shops and his father had his own home furnishings stores. He made the decision not to follow the family business and chose acting instead. "I could have been the Bra King of Michigan", he muses. "But I couldn't find a matching girdle."
Ted got the acting bug as a child when he would appear as an extra in Sam's early films (including Sam's first hit The Evil Dead). A deejay in high school, he also spent time entertaining a succession of fawning aunts and uncles at home with his impressions. Ted briefly attended Michigan State University, then went to the University of New York and finally to the University of Detroit.
Ted's unique acting ability has landed him in a variety of roles playing both good guys and villains in television and in movies. He has played everything from a paranoid lunatic to a CIA analyst. He has gone from a role as a sweet, shy communications officer with a rather dry sense of humor on board a futuristic submarine, to an innocent-looking but viciously brutal killer who enjoys skinning people. His acting skill has been shown in his
ability to adapt to these and other roles. He enjoys playing villains or out of the ordinary roles because of the challenge.
He started his career by appearing in a series of industrial films in the Motor City. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1988 to lodge with Sam. He landed his first role outside of his brother's movies in a feature film called Shocker in 1989. He then had a role in Darkman as a bad goon under Durant. A year later, in 1991, he had his first starring role in Lunatics: A Love Story. His first film to receive much commercial success was the Tom Clancy thriller "Patriot Games," starring Harrison Ford, in which Ted played a satellite analyst in the CIA, a role he later reprised in Clear and Present Danger. His other motion picture credits include Hard Target, Candyman, Born Yesterday, Forced Exposure, and Stuart Saves His Family. Many of these roles are of the 'blink-and-you'll-miss-him' variety, but Ted-spotting is
considered an art form among the fans. The ultimate Ted-spotting flick is Army of Darkness (a.k.a. Evil Dead III or Medieval Dead) in which Ted takes on multiple minor roles. Ted's second starring role was in the horror thriller Skinner made in 1995. He plays the title character, Dennis Skinner, a disturbingly nice serial killer.
Ted has also had a number of television appearances. He has had guest starring roles on series such as Baywatch, Twin Peaks, and Alf. He had a small but very memorable scene in Alien Nation as a chatty alien in the episode "Chains of Love". (This series still reruns on the Sci-Fi Channel, so you still have a chance to catch this one if you try.) He also had a major guest-starring role in one American Gothic episode.
He is probably best known for his recurring roles on seaQuest DSV (later seaQuest 2032) and Xena: Warrior Princess. In seaQuest, a science fiction show about a futuristic submarine, which ran from 1993 to 1995, Ted played the shy, but intelligent, multi-lingual communications officer, Lieutenant (junior grade) Timothy O'Neill. Fans had the opportunity to hear him speak several different languages including Spanish, French, German, Mandarin,
Vietnamese and Japanese. (Many who know say his accents were fairly passable.) Ted felt that his background as a ham-radio operator and, a former high school deejay, and his interest in practicing dialects made him suitable for this role. Ted also has an interest in science. He says "I'm a huge science nut, although I wouldn't know how to fix a circuit, or wire anything."
In Xena: Warrior Princess, which is currently airing in syndication, Ted plays Joxer, a totally incompetent warrior-wannabe who tags along after Xena and Gabrielle whenever possible. Joxer is one of many recurring characters on the show and has also crossed over to an episode of Hercules: The
Legendary Journeys.
The role of Joxer has led to several convention appearances. Many fans who have had the opportunity to see Ted in person describe him as extremely charming and ingratiating. He's considered to be a bit of a stand-up comedian because of his sense of humor and cheerfulness. He is willing to talk with almost anyone and comes across as quite humble with his fans.
Ted writes screenplays along with his acting. Ted co-wrote the script for a second-season episode of seaQuest which was titled "Lostland." Ted especially likes to write screenplays for horror movies. This is a hobby of his. He also enjoys playing piano and trumpet. He also likes to invent board games for his friends. He is a huge Detroit Tigers fan, even though he said he "hates sports." In an interview he said "I did not excel in sports at all." He says that he had wanted to get into acting as a way "to explore all these fantasy elements (like science fiction) in a real way."
Filmography
Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (1998) (V) (voice) .... Crius
Wishmaster (1997) .... Ed Finney
Pathos (1997) .... The Workaholic
Apollo 11 (1996) (TV) (as Ted Raimi) .... Steve Bales
Shot, The (1996) .... Detective Corelli
Stuart Saves His Family (1995) .... Hal
Skinner (1995) .... Dennis Skinner
Clear and Present Danger (1994) .... Satellite Analyst
Floundering (1994) .... Sale Salesman
"SeaQuest DSV" (1993) TV Series .... Lt.jg.Tim O'Neill
Hard Target (1993) .... Man on the Street
Born Yesterday (1993) .... Cynthia's Assistant
Army of Darkness (1993) .... Cowardly Warrior/Second supportive villager/S-Mart clerk
Eddie Presley (1993) .... Scooter
SeaQuest DSV (1993) (TV) (as Ted Raimi) .... Lt. Tim 0'Neill
Patriot Games (1992) .... CIA Technician
Candyman (1992) .... Billy
Finishing Touch, The (1992)
Fountain Clowns, The (1992) .... Hayden
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992) .... TV Reporter
Lunatics: A Love Story (1991) (as Theodore Raimi) .... Hank
Darkman (1990) .... Rick
Easy Wheels (1989) .... Charlie
Shocker (1989) .... Pac Man
Intruder (1988) .... Produce Joe
Evil Dead II (1987) .... Possessed Henrietta
Crimewave (1985/I) .... Waiter
Stryker's War (1985) .... Chain Man
Blood Rage (1983)
Evil Dead, The (1982) .... Fake Shemp
Notable TV guest appearances
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Comedy of Eros" 5/12/1997
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "For Him the Bell Tolls" 2/1997
"Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "When a Man Loves a Woman" 1997
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Xena Scrolls" 1997
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Callisto" (episode # 1.22) 1996
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" 1996
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Intimate Stranger" 1996
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Return of Callisto" 1996
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Ten Little Warlords" 1996
"Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) playing "Joxer" in episode: "Warrior, Princess, Tramp" 1996
"American Gothic" (1995)
"Alien Nation" (1989) playing "Johnny Appleseed" in episode: "Chains of Love, The"
Notable TV guest appearances
The Ted Raimi International Fan Club
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