Before "The Wonder Years" Jeffrey Silver has started his career as location manager for Going in Style (1979), Dressed to Kill (1980) and Amityville II: The Possession (1982) (location manager), production manager of Exterminator 2 (1984) and 52 Pick-Up (1986), executive in charge of production of Fool for Love (1985) and Dangerously Close (1986) and Murphy's Law (1986), production consultant of Playing for Keeps (1986), and unit production manager for Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987).

Then Jeffrey has produced many movies: Joey (1985) (associate), Shag (1989) (line), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) (also unit production manager), Crossing the Bridge (1992), The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them (1992) (executive, also unit production manager), Mr. Baseball (1992) (executive), Indian Summer (1993), Wagons East (1994), The Santa Clause (1994), Don Juan DeMarco (1995) (co-executive), Born to Be Wild (1995/I) (aka Katie (1995)), Addicted to Love (1997) (aka Forlorn (1997)), How to Be a Player (1997) (executive), Gossip (1999), First Kiss (1999), Three to Tango (1999), Ace in the Hole (2000), Gossip (2000), Ready to Rumble (2000), Training Day (2001), The Santa Clause 2 (2002), If Only (2003), Mindhunters (2003), National Security (2003), and Joe's Last Chance (2003).