Eric Schaeffer
Born (1962-01-22) January 22, 1962
New York City, U.S.
Alma materBard College
Occupation(s)Actor, film director, screenwriter
Years active1993–2014
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1]

Eric Schaeffer (born January 22, 1962) is an American actor, writer, and director.[2]

Early life and education

Schaeffer was born in New York City, New York, and later graduated with a degree in drama and dance from Bard College. After graduating, he drove a New York City taxi for nine years, during which time he wrote two stage plays, a novel, twenty screenplays and various other works.

Career

Schaeffer rose to fame with fellow actor/writer/director Donal Lardner Ward on the independent film My Life's in Turnaround (1993), which was made in fifteen days for only $200,000. Schaeffer and Ward parlayed the film's success into Too Something (1995–1996), a short-lived sitcom that was briefly renamed New York Daze.

He signed on as a client of Creative Artists Agency and made a deal to direct the 1996 romantic comedy If Lucy Fell for a budget of $3.5 million for Columbia TriStar.[3][4]

Schaeffer starred opposite model Amanda de Cadenet in the 1997 romantic drama Fall, about a cab driver who begins a passionate affair with a model he first met in his cab.

In 2000, he released the comedy Wirey Spindell, a semi-autobiographical tale. This was followed by the 2001 romantic comedy Never Again, starring Jill Clayburgh and Jeffrey Tambor, and Mind the Gap in 2004.

In recent years Schaeffer has been writing an autobiographical blog, I Can't Believe I'm Still Single, about his relationships and ongoing search for love. Schaeffer has turned the blog into a book, I Can't Believe I'm Still Single – Sane, Slightly Neurotic (But in a Sane Way) Filmmaker into Good Yoga, Bad Reality TV, Too Much Chocolate, and a Little Kinky Sex Seeks Smart, Emotionally Evolved ... Oh Hell, At This Point Anyone Who'll Let Me Watch Football.

In 2008, Schaeffer debuted a reality television series on Showtime, also called I Can't Believe I'm Still Single.[5]

In 2009, Schaeffer and Jill Franklyn created the half-hour dramedy series Gravity for Starz. The series, which was about people who failed at suicide – originally titled Failure to Fly – starred Schaeffer along with Krysten Ritter, Ivan Sergei, Ving Rhames and Rachel Hunter. It began airing in April 2010 and on June 30, 2010, the show was cancelled.[6][7][8]

Filmography and television work

Actor, director and screenwriter

YearTitleGenreRoleNotes
1993My Life's in Turnaroundromantic comedy dramaSplick
1995–1996Too Somethingsituation comedyEric McDougaltelevision series
1996If Lucy Fellromantic comedyJoe MacGonaughgill
1997Fallromantic dramaMichael Shiver
2000Wirey SpindellcomedyWirey Spindell
2001Never Againromantic comedy–no acting
2004Mind the Gapcomedy dramaSam Blue
2005Starvedsituation comedySamtelevision series
2008-2011I Can't Believe I'm Still Singlereality televisionHimselftelevision series
2010Gravitycomedy dramaDetective Millertelevision series
2011They're Out of the BusinesscomedySplicksequel
2011After Fall, Winterromantic dramaMichael Shiversequel
2012Eric Schaeffer: Life Coachsituation comedyEric Schaefferweb series
2014Boy Meets Girlromantic comedy dramaPolice Officer
2021Before I Gocomedy drama–uncredited cameo

Actor (only)

YearTitleGenreRoleNotes
1995The Computer Wore Tennis ShoesRich Prentiss
1998Gunshycrime dramaGwynne
1999Everything's RelativeMarty Gorelicktelevision series
2001First YearsSam O'Donnelltelevision series
2001One Night at McCool'sdark comedy neo-noirGreg Spradling
2003The Dead Zonescience-fiction suspenseFrancis Rittertelevision series
episode: "Valley of the Shadow" (January 5, 2003)
2004Century Cityscience-fiction legal dramaDarwin McNeiltelevision series
2004MarmaladecomedyDan
2004Spanglishcomedy dramaRabid Sports Fan

Books

  • Schaeffer, Eric (2007). I Can't Believe I'm Still Single – Sane, Slightly Neurotic (But in a Sane Way) Filmmaker into Good Yoga, Bad Reality TV, Too Much Chocolate, and a Little Kinky Sex Seeks Smart, Emotionally Evolved ... Oh Hell, At This Point Anyone Who'll Let Me Watch Football. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56858-337-2.

See also

References

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