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Eric Schaeffer (born January 22, 1962) is an American actor, writer and director.
He was born in New York City, New York.
Schaeffer graduated with a degree in drama and dance from Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
After graduating, he drove a New York City taxi for nine years, during which time he wrote two stage plays, a novel, twenty screenplays and various other works.
Schaeffer rose to fame with fellow actor/writer/director Donal Lardner Ward on the independent film, My Life's in Turnaround (1993), which was made in fifteen days for only $200,000. Schaeffer and Ward parlayed Turnaround's success into Too Something (1995–1996), a short-lived situation-comedy 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 the romantic comedy film If Lucy Fell (1996), for $3.5 million[clarification needed] for Columbia TriStar.
Schaeffer starred opposite model Amanda de Cadenet in the romantic drama film Fall (1997), about a cab driver who picks up a model and takes her back to his apartment, where they begin a passionate affair.
Actors: Clive Russell (actor), David Calder (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), David Bradley (actor), Adrian Johnston (composer), Annette Badland (actress), Jean Marsh (actress), Tony Haygarth (actor), Delia Fine (producer), James Purefoy (actor), Trevor Peacock (actor), Karl Johnson (actor), Jodhi May (actress), St. John O'Rorke (editor), Will Tyler (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Rudolf Carl (actor), Peter Schiff (actor), Franz Stein (actor), Joachim Teege (actor), Hubert von Meyerinck (actor), Fritz Wagner (actor), Herbert Weissbach (actor), Ewald Wenck (actor), Charlott Daudert (actress), Erika von Thellmann (actress), Philipp Lothar Mayring (writer), Bert Grund (composer), Bruno Hübner (actor), Reinhard Kolldehoff (actor), Hans Richter (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Hans Richter (actor), Walter Forster (writer), Alfred Stöger (producer), Rudolf Carl (actor), Waltraut Haas (actress), Hubert Marischka (director), Fritz Imhoff (actor), Curd Jürgens (actor), Peter W. Staub (actor), Franz Marischka (actor), Hans Olden (actor), Hans Lang (composer), Ulrich Bettac (actor), Peter Gerhard (actor), Ady Berber (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), William H. O'Brien (actor), Richard Carle (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), Jack Daley (actor), William Newell (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Donald Haines (actor), Warren Hull (actor), Charles Judels (actor), Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart (actor), Bruce Mitchell (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), James C. Morton (actor), Jack O'Shea (actor),
Plot: Struggling songwriter Judy Walker talks her way into the apartment of a famous composer, and finds that he's on vacation. Homeless and without any money, she decides to stay at his place until his return, making use of all his belongings, and spreading the word that she is the composer's collaborator. She writes a song, wtih the composer listed as the co-writer, which becomes a big radio hit. The famous composer returns, and screwball comedy ensues.
Genres: Comedy, Musical,