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Name
  
David Shepard


Role
  
Film producer

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Awards
  
National Society of Film Critics Film Heritage Award

Movies
  
Lone Survivor, The Tramp, His New Job, The Lost World, A Woman

Similar People
  
Charlie Chaplin, Jess Robbins, Robert Israel, Peter Berg, Harry O Hoyt

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David Haspel Shepard (October 22, 1940 – January 31, 2017) was a film preservationist whose company, Film Preservation Associates, is responsible for many high-quality video versions of silent films. Some come from the Blackhawk Films library (also owned by Shepard) and others from materials owned by private collectors and film archives around the world.

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Biography

Shepard was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Marjorie (née Markley) and Bertram Shepard. His father was an executive with the Grand Union grocery-store chain, and his mother a homemaker. When he was 11 years old his family moved to Tenafly, New Jersey.

As a teenager he filmed school football games for the coaches to study, and in the off-season began to make his own films with student actors. He graduated from Hamilton College, in Upstate New York, in 1962, with a BA in philosophy, and completed a master's degree in American studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963.

Shepard began restoring films when he joined the American Film Institute in 1968 as one of their first staff members. In 1987, he bought the Blackhawk Films library.

In January 2017 he suffered a kidney failure, and was hospitalized. They discovered cancer in his lungs and he died shortly thereafter.

Affiliates

  • Film Preservation Associates, Serge Bromberg (Lobster Films)
  • Film Preservation Associates, Benjamin Scott Baker (Assistant to Producer)
  • References

    David Shepard (film preservationist) Wikipedia