Trivia

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..