Biography

Since attending U.C. Berkeley and graduating Magna Cum Laude from UCLA Film School, Jeffrey C. Sherman has written the features "The Soldier" and "Up the Creek." He wrote the features "Vine Street" and "Revenge of the Nerds III" for Interscope, "Summer Job" for Universal, "Teen Tour" for Paramount, "Respectable" for Norman Lear and Disney, "Rest Stop" for Hollywood Pictures, "The Late Robert Hampton" for Fildebroc (Paris), "Hot Deliveries" for ABC Motion Pictures, "Film School" for Rastar and many others.

In television, Jeff created, produced and wrote one of the first Disney Channel series, "The Enchanted Musical Playhouse" which featured songs by his father and uncle, the Sherman Brothers. Jeff has produced and written several network television series including ABC/Touchstone's "Boy Meets World" and "You Wish," UPN/Jim Henson's "Family Rules" and Buena Vista Partners' "Stick With Me, Kid." Jeff's television pilots include "Turner & Hooch," "The Secret Life of Girls," "Post Game," "Virtual Dad," "Family Tree," "Hillers" and the independently produced comedy "Katie Sullivan" starring Larisa Oleynik, Will Friedle, Alex Desert and Orson Bean.

Jeff wrote the longform "The Spike Girls" for the Disney Channel and his ABC Family film trilogy "Au Pair," "Au Pair II" and "Au Pair III" are among the highest rated programs to ever air on the network.

With his cousin, Jeff directed and produced the 2009 Walt Disney Pictures feature documentary, "the boys: the sherman brothers' story." The theatrical film chronicles the unparalleled career of the sibling songwriting team while taking an intimate look at the brothers' influences, differences and secret family rift. The film premiered at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival and has been selected for several major international festivals in Glasgow (Scotland), DocEdge (New Zealand), Shaw Festival (Toronto), Newport Beach (USA) and the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (France) the Animac Festival (Spain), the Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia) and the Biografilm Festival (Italy). "the boys" has screened at numerous Jewish film festivals including Los Angeles, San Diego, Ventura Country, Tucson, Las Vegas and St. Louis. In 2010, "the boys" was chosen as the opening night screening at the first-ever Disney D23 Expo.

In 2011, Jeff produced with John Landis Traveling Light Partners' original hour comedy special "Wendy Liebman: Taller on TV" which was licensed by Showtime and distributed worldwide by Image/RSL Entertainment.

Jeff has composed songs and music for television and film projects including "Boy Meets World," "The Enchanted Musical Playhouse" and the 2019 family feature film "3 Bears Christmas." Most recently he has collaborated on the script and song scores for two animated feature musicals, "Dogs of New York" (with Chely Wright and Kristin Chenoweth) and "Three Dog Knights" (with his sons Alex and Ryan Sherman).

In March 2021, Jeff released an album of original musical compositions entitled "Begin Again" and is finalizing his follow-up collection, "Afterglow."

Jeff is completing the book and song score for an original stage musical as well as a collection of autobiographical short stories.

Jeff lives in Los Angeles with his wife, comedian Wendy Liebman.
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Jeffrey is the eldest son of composer Robert B. Sherman (the Sherman Brothers). The song "Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins was written after Jeff told his father about getting the Salk polio vaccine (via sugar cube) at school.

Went to the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Corbin Bernsen, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Breckin Meyer, Jonathan Silverman, and Richard Dreyfuss.