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Acting

Paul Shaffer

Career: Active from 1977 to 2022, with a break from 2000 to 2011, busiest in 1996 with 2 main titles.

Leading roles: 5
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
77/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 23 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Paul Shaffer Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Psychological
3.1, average 5.5
Crime
1.4, average 3.6
Mystery
1.9, average 4.0
Melancholy
2.6, average 4.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Celebrity Guests 2
Musical Performance 2
Sketch Comedy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

32

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles · average score 70

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

63

as Artie Fufkin

My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy

77

Original Music Composer

2010s

5 titles · average score 55

My Next Guest with David Letterman and Shah Rukh Khan

73

Original Music Composer

Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens

25

as Paul Shaffer

A Very Murray Christmas

60

as Paul Schaffer

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

61

TV show · as Self - Musical Guest / Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band

Bachman & Turner - Live at the Roseland Ballroom

as Keyboards

2000s

7 titles · average score 69

How I Met Your Mother

79

TV show · as Paul Shaffer

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd

76

as Blues Brothers Band (archive footage)

Disney Heroes Volume 1

as Hermes (voice)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

68

TV show · as Paul Shaffer

The Concert for New York City

58

Music Director

Primetime Glick

49

TV show

82

TV show · as Irv Nadler

1990s

10 titles · average score 59

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

72

Writer

Man on the Moon

68

as Letterman Band (uncredited)

Hercules: Zero to Hero

52

as Hermes (voice) (archive sound)

Blues Brothers 2000

46

as Marco

Hercules

67

TV show · as Hermes (voice)

Hercules

77

as Hermes (voice)

Flash Gordon

56

TV show · as Dr. Zarkov (voice)

Flash Gordon: Marooned on Mongo

as Dr. Hans Zarkov (voice)

A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out

62

as Artie Fufkin

Look Who's Talking Too

29

as Taxi Businessman

1980s

5 titles · average score 67

Scrooged

61

as Street Musician

Heartbeat

as Filmmaker's Assistant

Stunts

This Is Spinal Tap

87

as Artie Fufkin

Gilda Live

52

as Don Kirshner / Arnie Schnachtman / Student Body President / The Candy Slice Group

1970s

3 titles · average score 57

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

45

as Church of Jack Lord Organist

A Year at the Top

TV show

Saturday Night Live

69

TV show · as Don Kirshner (uncredited) / Self - Host