By . Alex Greig . PUBLISHED: . 01:57 EST, 9 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:15 EST, 9 March 2014 . Scott Kalvert, a director best known for directing the 1995 film Basketball Diaries, has died at the age of 49. His body was found at his Woodland Hills home in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday. Kalvert's death is being investigated as a possible suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's office. No further details were available. Sad loss: Director Scott Kalvert died aged just 49 in a suspected suicide . Director: Kalvert on-set of his second and final film Deuces Wild in 2002 . Kalvert's career began in the late 1980s, when the first music video he directed, Parents Just Don't Understand by Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, was a massive hit. He went on to direct videos for other artists including Cyndi Lauper, Mark Wahlberg in his Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch incarnation, Bobby Brown and Snoop Doggy Dogg (currently Snoop Lion). Kalvert then turned his talents to films, turning his favorite book, the 1978 memoir of Jim Carroll, 'The Basketball Diaries', into a film of the same name starring a then-unknown Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll and Lorraine Bracco as his mother. Wahlberg also starred, setting all three on the road to stardom. Kalvert made only one other film, 2002's 'Deuces Wild,' about rival New York street gangs in the 1950s. Breakout: Kalvert cast young unknown Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries alongside Mark Wahlberg and Lorraine Bracco . Scott Kalvert was born in New York City on August 15, 1964. He studied film at Emerson College in Boston and won an MTV competition which led to his first directing job with a New York-based production company. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Most recently, Kalvert had been running his own production company, Alliance Media Group. He is survived by his wife Sonia, two daughters, Madison and Tyler and his mother, father and brother.
Scott Kalvert, 49, best known for directing The Basketball Diaries, was found dead in his home Wednesday .
His death is being investigated as a possible suicide .
He directed music videos for such stars as Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff, Salt-N-Pepa, Cyndi Lauper and Bobby Brown .
Most recently, he was running his own production company in Los Angeles .
He leaves behind a wife and two daughters .
By . Alex Greig . PUBLISHED: . 01:57 EST, 9 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:15 EST, 9 March 2014 . Scott Kalvert, a director best known for directing the 1995 film Basketball Diaries, has died at the age of 49. His body was found at his Woodland Hills home in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday. Kalvert's death is being investigated as a possible suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's office. No further details were available. Sad loss: Director Scott Kalvert died aged just 49 in a suspected suicide . Director: Kalvert on-set of his second and final film Deuces Wild in 2002 . Kalvert's career began in the late 1980s, when the first music video he directed, Parents Just Don't Understand by Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, was a massive hit. He went on to direct videos for other artists including Cyndi Lauper, Mark Wahlberg in his Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch incarnation, Bobby Brown and Snoop Doggy Dogg (currently Snoop Lion). Kalvert then turned his talents to films, turning his favorite book, the 1978 memoir of Jim Carroll, 'The Basketball Diaries', into a film of the same name starring a then-unknown Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll and Lorraine Bracco as his mother. Wahlberg also starred, setting all three on the road to stardom. Kalvert made only one other film, 2002's 'Deuces Wild,' about rival New York street gangs in the 1950s. Breakout: Kalvert cast young unknown Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries alongside Mark Wahlberg and Lorraine Bracco . Scott Kalvert was born in New York City on August 15, 1964. He studied film at Emerson College in Boston and won an MTV competition which led to his first directing job with a New York-based production company. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Most recently, Kalvert had been running his own production company, Alliance Media Group. He is survived by his wife Sonia, two daughters, Madison and Tyler and his mother, father and brother.
Scott Kalvert, a director best known for Wednesday. Kalvert's death is being investigated as a possible suicide, according to the Los by Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, was a massive artists including Cyndi Lauper, Mark Wahlberg in Carroll, 'The Basketball Diaries', into a film of with a New York-based production company. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Most recently, Kalvert had been running his own production his wife Sonia, two daughters, Madison and Tyler