Eric Schaeffer

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.

Works

6.3

Before I Go

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

Release Date:2021-07-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:11

6.7

Boy Meets Girl

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.

Release Date:2014-06-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:103

5.7

After Fall, Winter

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.

Release Date:2012-01-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Michael

Vote Count:18

5.0

They're Out of the Business

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.

Release Date:2011-04-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Splick

Vote Count:5

Gravity
5.3

Gravity

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.

Release Date:2010-04-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Christian Miller

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:17

6.4

Adventureland

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.

Release Date:2009-04-03

Character:Foreigner Tribute Band Member

Vote Count:2189

I Can't Believe I'm Still Single
1.0

I Can't Believe I'm Still Single

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.

Release Date:2008-06-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Episode Count:24

Vote Count:1

The Unit
7.3

The Unit

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.

Release Date:2006-03-07

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:192

Starved
4.3

Starved

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.

Release Date:2005-08-04

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Sam

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:3

6.0

Spanglish

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.

Release Date:2004-12-17

Character:Rabid Sports Fan

Vote Count:1293

Marmalade

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.

Release Date:2004-06-14

Character:Dan

Century City
7.0

Century City

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

Release Date:2004-03-16

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:2

5.8

Mind the Gap

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

Release Date:2004-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Sam Blue

Vote Count:7

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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

Release Date:2003-01-26

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:162

The Dead Zone
7.2

The Dead Zone

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

Release Date:2002-06-16

Character:Francis Ritter

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:140

First Years

First Years

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

Release Date:2001-03-19

Character:Sam O'Donnell

Episode Count:3

3.9

Never Again

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

Release Date:2001-03-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

4.2

Wirey Spindell

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

Release Date:2000-01-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Wirey Spindell

Vote Count:4

Everything's Relative

Everything's Relative

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.

Release Date:1999-04-06

Character:Marty Gorelick

Episode Count:5

5.2

Gunshy

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.

Release Date:1998-03-06

Character:Gwynne

Vote Count:19

6.9

Fall

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.

Release Date:1997-06-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Michael Shiver

Vote Count:20

5.1

If Lucy Fell

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.

Release Date:1996-03-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Joe MacGonaughgill

Vote Count:49

Too Something

Too Something

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.

Release Date:1995-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Episode Count:1

4.5

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

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.

Release Date:1995-01-18

Character:Rich Prentiss

Vote Count:24

4.7

My Life's in Turnaround

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.

Release Date:1994-06-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Splick

Vote Count:3

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