Most Recent Role: Sam on Starved
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Birthday: 1-22-1962
Birth Name: Eric Schaeffer
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Birthday: 1-22-1962
Birth Name: Eric Schaeffer
Eric Schaeffer grew up in New York's Upper West Side. He loves his neighborhood and primarily sets his films there. He attended Bard College as a Drama and Dance major, and afterward began driving a NYC cab for nine years. During that time, he wrote 20 feature screenplays (2 of which he had optioned); wrote and directed two plays off-off Broadway and wrote an unpublished novel ("Wirey...
Most Recent Appearance
The Breatharians
Thursday 15 September 2005 on FX
The gang gets kicked out of Belt Tighteners. Dan has his jaw wired shut after his heart attack caused him to not be able to have surgery. Adam finally confesses he has been binging and purging the whole time he claimed he was abstinant. Sam becomes a breatharian. Billie rejects sam.
News Headlines
- external: Jimmy Kimmel Live 2005-08-11
- external: Eric reviewed 2005-08-05
- external: Not 'Starved' for laughs 2005-08-04
- external: Gorge on laughs 2005-08-04
- external: Eric's 'Starved' 2005-08-04
More: Eric Schaeffer News »
Eric released a book on April 28, 2007 entitled I Can't Believe I'm Still Single.
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Eric stands at 5'8".
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Eric: Laughter is the best medicine. I know from my recovery in all areas of addiction that humor is a tremendously, tremendously important antidote to recovery.
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Eric: (about Starved) Hopefully, what comes through is that it's certainly about much more than eating disorders. It's about four people battling the challenges of humanity — the excitement, the successes, the pathos, the struggles with finding love and spirituality and careers that work.
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Other Appearances
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Century City
Darwin McNeil |
Everything's Relative
Marty Gorelick |
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First Years
Samuel "Sam" O'Donnell |
Starved
Sam |
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Too Something
Eric McDougal |
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Jimmy Kimmel Live
Dane Cook & Eric Schaeffer Himself |
The Dead Zone
Valley of the Shadow Francis Ritter |
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The Situation With Tucker Carlson
Eric Schaeffer, Ben Jones, Rachel Maddow, Max Kellerman Guest |
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Starved
Pilot |
Too Something
Precipice |
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Starved
Pilot |
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Too Something
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Century City
Century City is a legal drama set in Los Angeles around the firm of Constable, Crane and Montero in 2030 that speculates on how the legal system will have changed by then. The series was... more Everything's Relative
Quirky family comedy centered around the Gorelick family. Young Leo works in an office writing comedy with his partner Trina. His overbearing but well meaning parents Jake (Jeffrey Tambor) and... more First Years
Based on the British series This Life, First Years takes a humorous, intimate look at the lives of five first-year law graduates as they struggle to get their careers off the ground in San... more
Starved
Created by and starring Eric Schaeffer ("If Lucy Fell," "Too Something"), "Starved" is, according to the network, "a comedic take on food addiction, which is used as the backdrop to the funny,... more Too Something
Eric, a writer that hardly ever writes, and Donny, a photographer that refuses to show his work in public, struggle with things like steady jobs and promotions that will ultimately interrupt with... more
Century City is a legal drama set in Los Angeles around the firm of Constable, Crane and Montero in 2030 that speculates on how the legal system will have changed by then. The series was... more Everything's Relative
Quirky family comedy centered around the Gorelick family. Young Leo works in an office writing comedy with his partner Trina. His overbearing but well meaning parents Jake (Jeffrey Tambor) and... more First Years
Based on the British series This Life, First Years takes a humorous, intimate look at the lives of five first-year law graduates as they struggle to get their careers off the ground in San... more
StarvedCreated by and starring Eric Schaeffer ("If Lucy Fell," "Too Something"), "Starved" is, according to the network, "a comedic take on food addiction, which is used as the backdrop to the funny,... more Too Something
Eric, a writer that hardly ever writes, and Donny, a photographer that refuses to show his work in public, struggle with things like steady jobs and promotions that will ultimately interrupt with... more
