Eric Schaeffer

Acting

Eric Schaeffer

Born

1962-01-22 (64)

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eric Schaeffer (born January 22, 1962) is an American actor, writer and director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Schaeffer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 5 titles

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes poster
4.7

By accident, the content of a computer encyclopedia is transferred into the brain of Dexter Riley, a less than average college boy. Because of his newly acquired knowledge he competes in a quiz show between various universities, where he sweeps all the points. A wiz kid from another university finds out about his cheated wisdom and does everything to discredit Dexter.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

1995

If Lucy Fell poster
5.4

Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.

If Lucy Fell

1996

Fall poster
6.2

For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous lifestyle that she can't seem to leave behind. Torn between her feelings for Michael and the security of her marriage, Sarah is forced to make a realistic decision about the sacrifices that must be made to be truly and totally in love.

Fall

1997

Gunshy poster
5.4

When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.

Gunshy

1998

My Life's in Turnaround poster
4.8

Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.

My Life's in Turnaround

1994

Series credits

Jimmy Kimmel Live! poster
5.3

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003

The Dead Zone poster
7.3

Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

The Dead Zone

2002

Century City poster
6.0

Century City is an American science fiction-legal drama television series set in Los Angeles in the year 2030.

Century City

2004

No artwork available
NR

Eric and Donny are roommates working in an investment firm so they can do the things they love: Eric wants to be a writer, while Donny’s a budding photographer.

Too Something

1995

Gravity poster
5.1

Gravity is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jill Franklyn and Eric Schaeffer. The series "follows the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic exploits of a group from an eccentric out-patient program of suicide survivors". It premiered on April 23, 2010 on Starz in the United States. On June 30, 2010, Starz reported that Gravity had been canceled.

Gravity

2010

Starved poster
4.7

Starved is an FX Network television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a "shame-based" support group called Belt Tighteners. Its characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the show as well as writing, starring in and directing it, based upon his own struggle with eating disorders. In addition to his own life experiences, Schaeffer also drew upon the experiences of the other members of the principal cast, each of whom coincidentally had struggled with food issues of their own. Starved was the lead-in of FX's hour-long "Other Side of Comedy" block with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. FX executives wanted to use the two series to begin building comedy programming and broaden the network's demographic. The series debuted on August 4, 2005 to poor critical reviews and was cancelled in October 2005, when FX picked Sunny over Starved for renewal.

Starved

2005

First Years poster
9.0

Five first-year law graduates live together in San Francisco as they try to get both their lives and careers in order.

First Years

2001

Everything's Relative poster
10.0

Everything's Relative is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from April 6, 1999 until April 27, 1999. The series was created by Mitchell Hurwitz, and was produced by Witt/Thomas Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Everything's Relative

1999

I Can't Believe I'm Still Single poster
1.0

Filmmaker Eric Schaeffer is just a regular guy looking for love and unable to find it... or did he during his book tour from Portland, Oregon to Portland.

I Can't Believe I'm Still Single

2008

Behind the camera

If Lucy Fell poster
5.4

Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.

If Lucy Fell

1996

If Lucy Fell poster
5.4

Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.

If Lucy Fell

1996

Boy Meets Girl poster
6.6

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.

Boy Meets Girl

2014

Boy Meets Girl poster
6.6

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.

Boy Meets Girl

2014

Boy Meets Girl poster
6.6

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.

Boy Meets Girl

2014

Fall poster
6.2

For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous lifestyle that she can't seem to leave behind. Torn between her feelings for Michael and the security of her marriage, Sarah is forced to make a realistic decision about the sacrifices that must be made to be truly and totally in love.

Fall

1997

Fall poster
6.2

For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous lifestyle that she can't seem to leave behind. Torn between her feelings for Michael and the security of her marriage, Sarah is forced to make a realistic decision about the sacrifices that must be made to be truly and totally in love.

Fall

1997

Before I Go poster
6.1

A woman recalls her life and musical career choices in New York City through the years.

Before I Go

2021

Before I Go poster
6.1

A woman recalls her life and musical career choices in New York City through the years.

Before I Go

2021

Never Again poster
4.2

A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.

Never Again

2001

Never Again poster
4.2

A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.

Never Again

2001

Never Again poster
4.2

A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.

Never Again

2001

Wirey Spindell poster
4.7

On the eve of his wedding, a Manhattanite takes a whimsical look back at his formative years and sexuality.

Wirey Spindell

2000

Wirey Spindell poster
4.7

On the eve of his wedding, a Manhattanite takes a whimsical look back at his formative years and sexuality.

Wirey Spindell

2000

Mind the Gap poster
5.8

Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.

Mind the Gap

2004

Mind the Gap poster
5.8

Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.

Mind the Gap

2004

My Life's in Turnaround poster
4.8

Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.

My Life's in Turnaround

1994

My Life's in Turnaround poster
4.8

Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.

My Life's in Turnaround

1994

My Life's in Turnaround poster
4.8

Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.

My Life's in Turnaround

1994

They're Out of the Business poster
5.0

A decade and a half after their seminal indie film launched meteoric filmmaking careers, Splick and Jason find themselves staring at their own individual, pre-midlife crises. Having not spoken to one another since a late-nineties falling out, they're each grappling with the challenges of stalled careers and relationships, as the hands of time creep ominously past forty-o'clock. Splick's most recent TV show, centered around his character's perverse relationship with dessert foods, is unceremoniously cancelled by the network, forcing a return to his childhood bedroom at his mother's apartment in New York. Frustrated by a barrage of comments about the "good," "funny," movies he used to make with his old partner, Jason, Splick determines to seek him out and attempt a reunion.

They're Out of the Business

2011

They're Out of the Business poster
5.0

A decade and a half after their seminal indie film launched meteoric filmmaking careers, Splick and Jason find themselves staring at their own individual, pre-midlife crises. Having not spoken to one another since a late-nineties falling out, they're each grappling with the challenges of stalled careers and relationships, as the hands of time creep ominously past forty-o'clock. Splick's most recent TV show, centered around his character's perverse relationship with dessert foods, is unceremoniously cancelled by the network, forcing a return to his childhood bedroom at his mother's apartment in New York. Frustrated by a barrage of comments about the "good," "funny," movies he used to make with his old partner, Jason, Splick determines to seek him out and attempt a reunion.

They're Out of the Business

2011

They're Out of the Business poster
5.0

A decade and a half after their seminal indie film launched meteoric filmmaking careers, Splick and Jason find themselves staring at their own individual, pre-midlife crises. Having not spoken to one another since a late-nineties falling out, they're each grappling with the challenges of stalled careers and relationships, as the hands of time creep ominously past forty-o'clock. Splick's most recent TV show, centered around his character's perverse relationship with dessert foods, is unceremoniously cancelled by the network, forcing a return to his childhood bedroom at his mother's apartment in New York. Frustrated by a barrage of comments about the "good," "funny," movies he used to make with his old partner, Jason, Splick determines to seek him out and attempt a reunion.

They're Out of the Business

2011

After Fall, Winter poster
5.6

A dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ultimately spells the doom of their great love.

After Fall, Winter

2012

After Fall, Winter poster
5.6

A dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ultimately spells the doom of their great love.

After Fall, Winter

2012

After Fall, Winter poster
5.6

A dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ultimately spells the doom of their great love.

After Fall, Winter

2012