Eric Schaeffer
Birthday: Born in 1962-01-22 in New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: Alive
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.
TV Credits
The Dead Zone
Character: Francis Ritter
Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma....
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character:
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC....
The Unit
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A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets....
Century City
Character:
Century City is an American science fiction-legal drama television series set in Los Angeles in the year 2030....
Starved
Character: Sam
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, S...
Everything's Relative
Character: Marty Gorelick
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....
First Years
Character: Sam O'Donnell
Five first-year law graduates live together in San Francisco as they try to get both their lives and careers in order....
Gravity
Character: Christian Miller
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....
Movie Credits
If Lucy Fell
Character: Joe MacGonaughgill
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....
Mind the Gap
Character: Sam Blue
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness....
Fall
Character: Michael Shiver
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....
My Life's in Turnaround
Character: Splick
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....
After Fall, Winter
Character: Michael
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....
Wirey Spindell
Character: Wirey Spindell
On the eve of his wedding, a Manhattanite takes a whimsical look back at his formative years and sexuality....
They're Out of the Business
Character: Splick
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 unceremoniou...
Adventureland
Character: Foreigner Tribute Band Member
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world....
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Character: Rich Prentiss
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....
Spanglish
Character: Rabid Sports Fan
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms....
Gunshy
Character: Gwynne
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....
Marmalade
Character: Dan
Marmalade is a romantic comedy about a fashion model who gets too old to continue her work. Her demise in her professional life happens as her personal life falls completely apart....