Jean Shepherd
Birthday: 1921-07-26
Place of Birth: South Side, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Biography: Raised in Hammond, Indiana, Jean Shepherd went on to work in the steel mills and was a veteran of the Army Signal Corps before entering the arts. In the 1950s, he began a long career as a radio personality telling stories of his youth, commenting on current topics and performing silly songs.
Movies
A Christmas Story
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teacher...
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Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era ...
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Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
From Jean Shepherd (A Christmas Story) comes the story of 14 year old Ralphie's first job, and the f...
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Babe Ruth
As its title implies, this video attempts to go beyond the public persona of one of major league bas...
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Inquest
A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is det...
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The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)
A comedy written and Narrated by Jean Shepherd. The story involves several different events such as...
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Light Fantastic
In this romantic drama, a plain, lonely secretary wins three dance lessons. Her handsome instructor ...
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It Runs in the Family
It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in thei...
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The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
An adult Ralphie Parker narrates several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel t...
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Tiki Tiki
A producer monkey pitches a fairytale extravaganza to a sceptical financier. A psychedelic meta-come...
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The Phantom of the Open Hearth
This comedy/drama was written by Jean Shepherd, who appears at the beginning and the end and narrate...
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Shadows
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopard...
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