Not to be confused with American country music singer Jean Shepard.
Jean Shepherd
Shepherd circa 1969
Born
Jean Parker Shepherd Jr. (1921-07-26)July 26, 1921 Chicago, Illinois, US
Died
October 16, 1999(1999-10-16) (aged 78) Fort Myers, Florida, US
Pen name
Shep (nickname)
Occupation
Writer, humorist, actor, raconteur, radio host
Nationality
American
Genre
Humor, satire
Years active
1945–1998
Spouse
Barbara Olive Mattoon
(m. 1947; div. 1948)
Joan Laverne Warner
(m. 1950; div. 1960)
Lois Nettleton
(m. 1960; div. 1967)
Leigh Brown
(m. 1977; died 1998)
Children
2
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Army
Years of service
1942–1944
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade (T/5)
Unit
Signal Corps
Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26,[1] 1921 – October 16, 1999)[2] was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted, based on his own semiautobiographical stories.[3]
^Bergmann, Eugene B. (2005) Excelsior You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd. Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. ISBN 978-1-55783-600-7. pp. 10, 23, 442n. v.
^Ramirez, Anthony (October 18, 1999). "Jean Shepherd, a Raconteur And a Wit of Radio, Is Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 14, 2022. His date of birth has been given variously as either July 21 or July 26, in years ranging from 1921 to 1929. However, several years after his death, Shepherd's hometown newspaper explained that the correct date of his birth was July 26, 1921. Kiesling, Mark (December 24, 2006). "A Christmas Story. Classic holiday movie has Hammond roots". The Times. Hammond, Indiana.
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Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, 1921 – October 16, 1999) was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor...
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Hipsters. 2016: "The Man Who Told A Christmas Story. What I learned from JeanShepherd", Slate. 2016: "Neutron Sunday. In 1956, Ed Sullivan showed America...
is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on JeanShepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others...
of Look Charlie, which was written by her future husband, humorist JeanShepherd. It opened for three performances in late December 1958 and closed after...
with a script written by JeanShepherd. Produced by Loxton, the film is the first screen adaptation to feature Shepherd's character Ralphie Parker, and...
the previous film, it is based on semi-autobiographical stories by JeanShepherd, primarily from his book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. The opening...
lacked those revenue streams, and the films are seldom rerun. Raconteur JeanShepherd produced several television films in the 1970s and 1980s before realizing...
profile among teen audiences. Another of Dillon's early roles was in the JeanShepherd PBS special The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters. The...
1939 (first appearance of Batman).[citation needed] In 1970, humorist JeanShepherd wrote the introduction for the reprint of The 1929 Johnson Smith & Co...
written by JeanShepherd. Produced by Olvia Tappan, the film is the second installment in the Ralph Parker franchise. Based on Shepherd's book In God...
In 1982, Shepherd returned to New York and to the stage when she played alongside James MacArthur in a theatre tour of Lunch Hour by Jean Kerr. The following...
May 26, 2019. "A Salute to JeanShepherd". Flick Lives. Retrieved July 10, 2023. ebbergmann (January 21, 2014). "JeanShepherd—chart—and all that jazz"...
"official sequel" in the trailer, the film is not directly based on any of JeanShepherd's writings nor is he involved due to his death in 1999. Instead, it has...
high school rowdy escapades to a close. He instead collaborated with JeanShepherd on A Christmas Story, which critic Leonard Maltin described as "one...
Sue. The core story of the song may have been inspired by humorist JeanShepherd, a close friend of Silverstein, who was often taunted as a child because...
Pittsburgh Steelers in that game. In 2012, Lauria played the part of JeanShepherd in the Broadway production of A Christmas Story: The Musical, a role...
The film was based on a series of short stories and novels written by JeanShepherd about young Ralphie Parker (played by Peter Billingsley) and his quest...
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