- Born
- Birth nameScott Henry Schiaffo
- Nicknames
- Apples
- Eli Minelli EnCarte
- Eli Minelli
- Height1.80 m
- Scott Schiaffo was born in Passaic, New Jersey. Independent film fans know him best as the "Chewlies Gum Guy" from Kevin Smith's 1994 independent cult classic "Clerks".
Schiaffo is a musician who plays guitar, keyboards, bass, and harmonica. He's known primarily for working with Francis Fell and Jule Carey.
Schiaffo has appeared in several feature films as well as many shorts since his big screen debut in the seminal cult comedy "Clerks".
He's appeared alongside Michael DeLorenzo in "The Garden State", Selma Blair in "The Broccoli Theory" and Ethan Suplee in "Vulgar" He was featured in the View Askew produced - Lions Gate distributed motion picture "Vulgar". "Vulgar" has gone on to become a cult classic and one of Lions Gate's most controversial releases to date. Schiaffo played the lead, Mike Tobin in Tom Zanca's crime thriller "Linger" which enjoyed a winning response at many film festivals. Scott played the lead "Mo Fletcher" in the independent comedy feature "Idiots Are Us" which won Best Comedy Feature at the 2006 New York Film and Video Festival. He can be seen in the B & W short "I Got Stuff" and the live Jule Carey DVD "Love It Live" Schiaffo and many of his Clerks cast mates were featured in AMC's Comic Book Men Season 3 EP 11 "Pinheads".
Schiaffo released a book of collected poetry and short stories called "Vicious Dogs Attack Me in Sleepless Nights of Summer" and in 2020 the Audible version read by the author was released worldwide.
Schiaffo released an audio CD called "The Shoestring Serenade" which is a collection of instrumental film music culled from over 2 decades of original film music he composed & produced. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Angels of Animals rescue in Clifton, New Jersey.
In 2021 Schiaffo was tapped to reprise his role as the Chewlies Gum Rep in Kevin Smith's much anticipated sequel film Clerks III.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Drove 2 hours one-way to the New Jersey shore to audition for Kevin Smith's Clerks and arrived an hour early. He decided to pass the time by practicing his monologue strolling along the local beach and onto a jetty, which was dark and quite desolate during the fall/winter. He was eventually questioned and briefly detained by the local authorities because of an anonymous report which cited he had been "talking to himself aloud and gesturing wildly in the air out on the jetty". It was assumed his alleged "suspicious behavior" meant the actor was inebriated and/or possibly suicidal.
- First cousin of actor and 2 time Emmy-winning director/cameraman Rick Schiaffo.
- While shooting the Lions Gate film "Vulgar" he was told moments before the camera was set to roll that he and fellow actor Brian O'Halloran were both to go crashing through a "nailed - shut" screen door instead of the original scripted action of wrestling to the ground after Schiaffo's character was dealt a sledge hammer blow to the leg by O'Halloran's Flappy the Clown character.
As a result you can see a "scratch" on Schiaffo's neck just moments before the screen door action sequence. The "scratch" was a minor scrape from the aforementioned screen door actions "rehearsal" takes..
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