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.
As a member of the comedy troupe The Chumps, he helped create and perform several long-running pop culture parodies and a series of improvised one-act plays.
In film, Schaefer has worked with Carl Reiner and Bette Midler in That Old Feeling, with Bruce McCulloch and Natasha Henstridge in Dog Park, and with Angelina Jolie in Pushing Tin.
[2] Schaefer's television credits include The Kids in the Hall, That’s So Weird, Comics!, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Ron James Show, Dan for Mayor, SketchCom, Due South and Howie Do It with Howie Mandel.
Most recently, Schaefer improvised a show with noted Beat poet Ken Nordine at the Chicago Improv Festival.