Schwartz grew up in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey and attended Eisenhower Junior High School. He attended high school in 1982/3 and 1985/6 at Bridgewater-Raritan High School West in Bridgewater, with Future professional basketball player Eric Murdock. He moved on to attend the Professional Children's School from 1983 to 1985.

Since 1987, he has managed a Sports and movie memorabilia collectibles store, Baseball Cards - Movie Collectibles Etc. with his father Dan Schwartz in Westlake Village, California. Schwartz' father was Elvis Presley's US Army company clerk in Germany from 1958 to 1960.

In the 1990s, Schwartz worked in the adult film industry in minor, non-sexual roles, and behind the scenes in numerous administrative roles. Schwartz would eventually star in adult films in sexual roles. After appearing in more than a dozen films in a non-sexual capacity, he quit in 2000.

Since 2006, Schwartz has pursued his acting career, and helped create a line of celebrity-based trading cards for Donruss Trading cards, now known as Panini called "Americana". He has also obtained Celebrity autographs for companies such as: Upper Deck, Razor, Leaf & In The Game. In 2008, Schwartz began writing for the Sports card magazine Beckett, and was featured on the cover of the September 2008 issue of Sports Card Monthly alongside Darren McFadden and Josh Hamilton.

In the wake of his former castmate Corey Haim's death in March 2010, Schwartz sold Haim's personal belongings on Ebay at the behest of the Haim family.