Eric Schaeffer

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Eric Schaeffer (22 January 1962) is an actor/writer/director in film and television.

He rose to fame with fellow actor/writer/director Donal Lardner Ward on the 1993 independent film, My Life's in Turnaround which was made in 15 days for only $200,000. Schaeffer and Ward parlayed Turnaround's success into Too Something, a short-lived television series that was briefly renamed "New York Daze."

He signed on as a client of Creative Artists Agency and made a deal to direct If Lucy Fell for $3.5 million at Columbia TriStar, for which he was taken to task for casting the supermodel Elle Macpherson as his love interest.

In 1997, he starred opposite model Amanda de Cadenet in Fall, about a cab driver who picks up a supermodel, takes her back to his apartment where they begin a passionate affair. In 2000, he released Wirey Spindell, a semi-autobiographical tale. Never Again, starring Jill Clayburgh and Jeffrey Tambor, came next and was followed most recently by 2004’s Mind the Gap.

According to a recent profile in the L.A. Weekly, he will reteam with Ward to make an unofficial sequel to My Life's in Turnaround. It is tentatively entitled, They’re Out of the Business. The budget is set around $300,000 and, according to the article, "follows two guys in their 40s who once had a hit TV show, and are getting back together to make another show and re-create their glory days. At the beginning, Schaeffer’s character, an actor who stars in a TV show called Mr. Big Shot, legally changes his name to Self-Indulgent as a publicity stunt and is then stuck with it after the show is canceled." In recent years he has been writing an autobiographical blog about his relationships and ongoing search for love in a blog entitled "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single." Schaeffer is a native of New York City with an additional house in Vermont.

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  • Starved (2005 TV series) .... Sam
  • Mind The Gap (2004 film) .... Sam Blue
  • Never Again (2001 film)
  • Wirey Spindell (2000 film) .... Wirey Spindell
  • Fall (1997 film) .... Michael
  • If Lucy Fell (1996 film) .... Joe MacGonaughgill
  • Too Something (1995 TV series) .... Eric McDougal
  • My Life's in Turnaround (1993 film) .... Splick

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