# Jerry Schaefer

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**Jerry Schaefer** is a Canadian actor who is best known for his role as Possum Lake animal control officer Ed Frid on *[The Red Green Show](/source/The_Red_Green_Show)*.[1]

## Career

Jerry is a veteran of [The Second City](/source/The_Second_City), where he worked as an instructor in the conservatory program. As a member of the comedy troupe The Chumps, he helped create and perform several long-running pop culture [parodies](/source/Parodies) and a series of [improvised one-act plays](/source/Improvisational_theatre). They also improvised a series for [CBC Radio](/source/CBC_Radio).

In film, Schaefer has worked with [Carl Reiner](/source/Carl_Reiner) and [Bette Midler](/source/Bette_Midler) in *[That Old Feeling](/source/That_Old_Feeling_(film))*, with [Bruce McCulloch](/source/Bruce_McCulloch) and [Natasha Henstridge](/source/Natasha_Henstridge) in *[Dog Park](/source/Dog_Park_(film))*, and with [Angelina Jolie](/source/Angelina_Jolie) in *[Pushing Tin](/source/Pushing_Tin)*.[2]

Schaefer's television credits include *[The Kids in the Hall](/source/The_Kids_in_the_Hall_(TV_series))*, *That’s So Weird*, *[Comics!](/source/Comics!)*, *[Degrassi: The Next Generation](/source/Degrassi:_The_Next_Generation)*, *[The Ron James Show](/source/The_Ron_James_Show)*, *[Dan for Mayor](/source/Dan_for_Mayor)*, *[SketchCom](/source/SketchCom)*, *[Due South](/source/Due_South)* and *[Howie Do It](/source/Howie_Do_It)* with [Howie Mandel](/source/Howie_Mandel). He is also a regular character on *The Red Green Show*, where he plays Ed Frid, an animal control expert who is deathly afraid of all animals.[3]

Schaefer was head writer for the CBC Radio comedy series *The Muckraker*. He also wrote and produced satirical, current event comedy for *[What a Week](/source/What_a_Week)*.

## Personal life

When he is not acting, Schaefer is teaching workshops on improv and sketch comedy writing. Most recently, Schaefer improvised a show with noted Beat poet [Ken Nordine](/source/Ken_Nordine) at the Chicago Improv Festival.

From time to time, Schaefer is paid to appear in commercials to please his parents.[4]

## Filmography

- *[11.22.63](/source/11.22.63)* (2016)
- *Clarity* (short) (2011)
- *Clown Therapy* (short) (2010)
- *[Survival of the Dead](/source/Survival_of_the_Dead)* (2009)
- *[Cake](/source/Cake_(2005_film))* (2005)
- *Secondary High* (2002)
- *[Duct Tape Forever](/source/Duct_Tape_Forever)* (2002)
- *[Dick](/source/Dick_(film))* (1999)
- *[Dog Park](/source/Dog_Park)* (1998)
- *[That Old Feeling](/source/That_Old_Feeling_(film))* (1997)
- *[Tommy Boy](/source/Tommy_Boy_(film))* (1995)

## References

1. [\[1\]](http://classicredgreen.weebly.com/minor-characters.html) Minor Characters - The Classic Red Green Page

1. [\[2\]](http://parentmanagementinc.com/jerry-schaefer) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120425015728/http://parentmanagementinc.com/jerry-schaefer) 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine JERRY SCHAEFER (Biography) - Parent Management

1. [\[3\]](http://www.monkeytoast.com/bios.html#schaefer) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120425015736/http://www.monkeytoast.com/bios.html#schaefer) 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine Monkey Toast: The Cast

1. [\[4\]](http://appliedimprov.ning.com/profile/JerrySchaefer) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120425015736/http://appliedimprov.ning.com/profile/JerrySchaefer) 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine Jerry Schaefer's Page - The Applied Improvisation Network

## External links

- [Jerry Schaefer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769710/) at IMDb

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