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Sam Raimi
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American filmmaker (born 1959)
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Sam Raimi is an author and filmmaker whose career began in 1977. Born in 1959, he has five children. His body of work includes titles such as *Ophelia*, *Meet Ophelia*, *Bob's Burgers*, *Thomas and Friends*, and *Army of Darkness*. While one source lists eleven works, another records five.
Raimi is referenced by 1,098 other encyclopedia articles. On the Last.fm platform, his name is associated with 1,644 listeners and a total playcount of 3,861.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Ophelia
- Meet Ophelia
- Bob's Burgers
- Thomas and Friends
- Army of Darkness
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,644
- Total plays
- 3,861
Samuel M "Sam" Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor, best known for directing the cult horror comedy Evil Dead series, the superhero film Darkman, and the Spider-Man trilogy; his most recent work is 2013's fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful. Raimi is also the producer of several successful television series. He is also the founder of Renaissance Pictures. Recently, he worked as the producer of The Possession, and the 2013 remake of Evil Dead
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,565x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,180x
- Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer
· 2013 · cited 8,810x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I didn't at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and it's a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. It's very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Royal Oak
- Sibling
- Ted Raimi
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Notable work
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Image
- Sam Raimi (53896379405) (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 5
Show 8 more facts
- Commons category
- Sam Raimi
- date of birth
- 1959-10-23
- Commons gallery
- Sam Raimi
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films with screenplays by Sam Raimi
- writing language
- English language
- member of
- Writers Guild of America, East
- relative
- Lorne Greene
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Samuel M. Raimi (/ˈreɪmi/ RAY-mee; born October 23, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the Evil Dead trilogy (1981–1992) and directing the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007). He also directed Darkman (1990), The Quick and the Dead (1995), A Simple Plan (1998), The Gift (2000), Drag Me to Hell (2009), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and Send Help (2026).
His films are known for their highly dynamic visual style, inspired by comic books and slapstick comedy. He founded the production companies Renaissance Pictures in 1979 and Ghost House Pictures in 2002. Raimi has also produced several successful television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1997), its spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001), and Ash vs Evil Dead (2015–2018) starring longtime friend and collaborator Bruce Campbell reprising his role in the Evil Dead franchise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sam Raimi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.