Eric Schaeffer | |
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| Born | January 22, 1962 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Bard College |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [1] |
Eric Schaeffer (born January 22, 1962) is an American actor, writer, and director. [2]
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.
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]
| Year | Title | Genre | Role | Notes |
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| 1993 | My Life's in Turnaround | romantic comedy drama | Splick | |
| 1995–1996 | Too Something | situation comedy | Eric McDougal | television series |
| 1996 | If Lucy Fell | romantic comedy | Joe MacGonaughgill | |
| 1997 | Fall | romantic drama | Michael Shiver | |
| 2000 | Wirey Spindell | comedy | Wirey Spindell | |
| 2001 | Never Again | romantic comedy | – | no acting |
| 2004 | Mind the Gap | comedy drama | Sam Blue | |
| 2005 | Starved | situation comedy | Sam | television series |
| 2008-2011 | I Can't Believe I'm Still Single | reality television | Himself | television series |
| 2010 | Gravity | comedy drama | Detective Miller | television series |
| 2011 | They're Out of the Business | comedy | Splick | sequel |
| 2011 | After Fall, Winter | romantic drama | Michael Shiver | sequel |
| 2012 | Eric Schaeffer: Life Coach | situation comedy | Eric Schaeffer | web series |
| 2014 | Boy Meets Girl | romantic comedy drama | Police Officer | |
| 2021 | Before I Go | comedy drama | – | uncredited cameo |
| Year | Title | Genre | Role | Notes |
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| 1995 | The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes | Rich Prentiss | ||
| 1998 | Gunshy | crime drama | Gwynne | |
| 1999 | Everything's Relative | Marty Gorelick | television series | |
| 2001 | First Years | Sam O'Donnell | television series | |
| 2001 | One Night at McCool's | dark comedy neo-noir | Greg Spradling | |
| 2003 | The Dead Zone | science-fiction suspense | Francis Ritter | television series episode: "Valley of the Shadow" (January 5, 2003) |
| 2004 | Century City | science-fiction legal drama | Darwin McNeil | television series |
| 2004 | Marmalade | comedy | Dan | |
| 2004 | Spanglish | comedy drama | Rabid Sports Fan |
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