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Eric Schaeffer

Eric Schaeffer

Highest Rated: 89% Boy Meets Girl (2014)

Lowest Rated: 0% Fall (1997)

Birthday: Jan 22, 1962

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

A pug-nosed New York performer turned independent filmmaker Eric Schaeffer began as an actor-writer-director in Off-Off-Broadway productions and also dabbled as a TV writer for the Fox "reality" series "America's Most Wanted" and the animated "Beverly Hills Teens" (syndicated). It was his work as NYC cab driver, however, that helped inspire "My Life's in Turnaround" (1993), the ultra low-budget, light romantic comedy he co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in with bartender-friend Donal Lardner Ward. Set amidst the NYC independent filmmaking community, the autobiographical story featured Schaeffer as a cabbie and Ward as a bartender, looking for girlfriends and financing for a first-movie, and real-life taxi encounters with Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton made their art-imitating-life way into the picture, as did cameos by Casey Siemaszko and John Sayles as sleazy industry types. Praise for its off-kilter humor helped the pair sell a series idea, enabling them to create, produce and star in the short-lived Fox sitcom "Too Something/New York Daze" (1995-96).

Highest rated movies

88% My Life's in Turnaround
56% Mind the Gap
33% One Night at McCool's
24% Wirey Spindell
20% Gunshy
18% If Lucy Fell
11% After Fall, Winter
0% Fall

Photos

IF LUCY FELL, Elle Macpherson, Eric Schaeffer, Sarah Jessica Parker, 1996, (c) TriStar IF LUCY FELL, Eric Schaeffer, 1996, (c)TriStar Pictures IF LUCY FELL, Eric Schaffer, 1996, (c)TriStar Pictures IF LUCY FELL, Eric Schaeffer, 1996, (c)TriStar Pictures IF LUCY FELL, Eric Schaeffer, Sarah Jessica Parker, 1996, (c)TriStar Pictures IF LUCY FELL, Eric Schaeffer, 1996, (c)TriStar Pictures FALL, Eric Schaeffer, 1997 IF LUCY FELL, Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Schaeffer, 1996, (c)TriStar Pictures IF LUCY FELL, Eric Schaeffer, 1996, (c)TriStar Pictures IF LUCY FELL, Eric Schaeffer, 1996, (c)TriStar Pictures THEYRE OUT OF THE BUSINESS, l-r: Donal Lardner Ward, Eric Schaeffer, 2011, ph: Marc Blandori/©Sundance Selects THEYRE OUT OF THE BUSINESS, l-r: Donal Lardner Ward, Eric Schaeffer, 2011, ph: Marc Blandori/©Sundance Selects
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 60% Before I Go Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 2021
89% 79% Boy Meets Girl Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$20.3K 2014
11% 68% After Fall, Winter Unknown (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter 		- 2011
No Score Yet 50% They're Out of the Business Splick (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 2011
56% 89% Mind the Gap Blue (Character),
Director,
Writer 		$9.5K 2004
No Score Yet 100% Marmalade Unknown (Character) - 2004
31% 66% Never Again Director,
Writer,
Producer 		$295.5K 2001
33% 39% One Night at McCool's Greg Spradling (Character) $6.3M 2001
24% 81% Wirey Spindell Wirey Spindell (Character),
Director,
Writer 		$9.8K 1999
20% 53% Gunshy Gwynne (Character) - 1998
0% 84% Fall Michael (Character),
Producer,
Director,
Writer 		$12.0K 1997
18% 52% If Lucy Fell Joe MacGonaughgill (Character),
Director 		$2.2M 1996
No Score Yet 42% The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Rich Prentiss (Character) - 1995
88% 20% My Life's in Turnaround Splick (Character),
Director 		- 1993

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: From Portland to Portland Self 2009-2011
45% 67% Gravity Miller (Character),
Creator,
Director,
Executive Producer,
Screenwriter 		2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Starved Unknown (Character) 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet Century City Darwin McNeil (Character) 2004-2005
No Score Yet 67% The Dead Zone Francis Ritter (Character) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet First Years Sam O'Donnell (Character) 2001
13% No Score Yet Everything's Relative Unknown (Character) 1999