---
name: "Paul Schiff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-schiff"
fi1m_id: "paul-schiff"
imdb_id: "nm0771490"
tmdb_id: 18344
wikidata_id: "Q7153463"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1901"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T07:50:50.947543+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Paul Schiff

## Identity

Paul Schiff

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-schiff
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-schiff
- **IMDb ID:** nm0771490
- **TMDB ID:** 18344
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7153463
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schiff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153463, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0771490/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18344

Producer. Born 1 January 1901.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1901
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schiff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153463, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0771490/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18344

## Coming up

- *John Doe* (2028-01-14), Producer

## Biography

Paul Schiff is an American film and television producer. He began his career as a documentary cameraman in New York City and directed for MTV for four years in the channel's early period. A film studies graduate of Wesleyan University, he moved into feature films as an associate producer on *Streets of Gold* (1986), the directorial debut of Joe Roth, who became his mentor.

Schiff served as vice president of production at Morgan Creek Productions under Roth and later held production deals at 20th Century Fox and Disney. His credits include *Young Guns* (1988) and its sequel, *My Cousin Vinny* (1992), *The Vanishing* (1993), *PCU* (1994) and Wes Anderson's *Rushmore* (1998). He has also produced *Maid in Manhattan* (2002), *Mona Lisa Smile* (2003) and later films such as *Fractured* (2019). Schiff has worked as second unit director on several projects and appeared as an actor in *Rushmore*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Rushmore* (1998), Fi1m 83, as Waiter — [page](https://film.one/film/rushmore.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *John Doe* (2028), Producer
- *The Inheritance* (2024), Producer
- *Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Awake* (2021), Producer
- *Fractured* (2019), Producer
- *How It Ends* (2018), Producer
- *Beast of Burden* (2018), Producer
- *Proud Mary* (2018), Producer
- *Girl Flu.* (2016), Executive Producer
- *My All American* (2015), Producer
- *Momentum* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Into the Grizzly Maze* (2015), Producer
- *The Truth About Emanuel* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Revenge of the Bridesmaids* (2010), Executive Producer
- *Tenure* (2010), Producer
- *Solitary Man* (2009), Producer
- *The Air I Breathe* (2007), Producer
- *Spin* (2007), Producer
- *Epic Movie* (2007), Producer
- *Date Movie* (2006), Producer
- *Green Street Hooligans* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Walking Tall* (2004), Producer
- *Mona Lisa Smile* (2003), Producer, Second Unit Director
- *Maid in Manhattan* (2002), Producer, Second Unit Director
- *Black Knight* (2001), Producer
- *Whatever It Takes* (2000), Producer
- *Rushmore* (1998), as Waiter · Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/rushmore.md)
- *Bushwhacked* (1995), Producer
- *PCU* (1994), Producer
- *Ghost in the Machine* (1993), Producer
- *The Vanishing* (1993), Producer
- *My Cousin Vinny* (1992), Producer
- *Young Guns II* (1990), Producer
- *Coupe de Ville* (1990), Producer
- *Young Guns* (1988), Co-Producer
- *Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise* (1987), Associate Producer
- *Streets of Gold* (1986), Associate Producer
- *The House on Sorority Row* (1982), Assistant Director
- *The Roman*, series, Executive Producer
- *Youth*, Producer

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