Ted Nicolaou

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Birth Name: Theodore Andrew Nicolaou

Country of origin: United States

Currently Residing In: United States

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Rebecca Nicolaou

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Description: Writer-director Ted Nicolaou began his career in entertainment as a singer-songwriter in the seminal Austin hippie band “Ramon & Ramon and the Four Daddyo’s.” He sang his way through film school under the mentorship of Rod Whitaker, the shadowy novelist also known as Trevanian, writing and directing the Student Academy Award nominated apocalyptic comedy SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY. Leaving Texas for Los Angeles, he wrote and directed the cult comedy science fiction film TERRORVISION. For Full Moon Entertainment, he created the atmospheric vampire series SUBSPECIES, the first American/Romanian co-production, shot on location i Writer-director Ted Nicolaou began his career in entertainment as a singer-songwriter in the seminal Austin hippie band “Ramon & Ramon and the Four Daddyo’s.” He sang his way through film school under the mentorship of Rod Whitaker, the shadowy novelist also known as Trevanian, writing and directing the Student Academy Award nominated apocalyptic comedy SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY. Leaving Texas for Los Angeles, he wrote and directed the cult comedy science fiction film TERRORVISION. For Full Moon Entertainment, he created the atmospheric vampire series SUBSPECIES, the first American/Romanian co-production, shot on location in Transylvania, months after the 1989 revolution. For Italian screen idol Terence Hill, he directed episodes of the wacky spaghetti-western European TV series LUCKY LUKE. And for Moonbeam Entertainment and Paramount Home Video, he co-wrote and directed the home-video family hits REMOTE and DRAGONWORLD (Best International Children’s Film, 1994, Ruhr International Film Festival and Cinemagic Audience Best Feature Film Award, 1994, Northern Ireland International Film Festival. Recently, he has created innovative DVD and Blu-ray bonus features and documentaries with marketing wizards EMC West for Walt Disney Home Entertainment, special features for Disneyland, Disney World, and Walt Disney Imagineering, and the feature length documentary DALÍ & DISNEY: A DATE WITH DESTINO, about the unlikely friendship and collaboration between Walt Disney and surrealist painter Salvador Dalí to produce the world’s first surrealist cartoon. His most recent feature film is the inspirational docu-drama FINDING HAPPINESS, about the worldwide Ananda spiritual communities dedicated to yoga, meditation, and service. His current project is curating the exhibition Disney & Dalí: Architects of the Imagination, about the friendship between Walt Disney and surrealist Salvador Dalí, for The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, opening summer, 2015.

Ted Nicolaou was born as Theodore Andrew Nicolaou. He is a director and writer, known for The Dungeonmaster (1984), Savage Island (1985) and TerrorVision (1986). He is married to Rebecca Nicolaou. He was previously married to Sally Nicolaou Hamilton. ... (more)

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