Archie Shepp
Acting
May 24, 1937 (89 years old)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
16
Acting Credits
Biography
Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 7 years old when his family moved to Philadelphia, in the black neighborhood of "Brick Yard". He started playing the banjo with his father, then he studied piano and saxophone at the same time as he did his secondary studies at Germantown College. He entered university, got into theatre, frequented novelists and poets like Leroy Jones, and wrote his first play "The Communist", an allegory on the situation of black Americans. At t...
Known For
Filmography
Scala Milan AC
2026
Monk & Pannonica: An American Story
2022
as Self
8
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
as Self (voice) (archive sound)
6.7
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
as Self - Musician
7.1
The Sound Before the Fury
2014
as Self
Dark Gable
2011
Archie Shepp & Chucho Valdés @ Jazz à Porquerolles 2011
2011
Archie Shepp & Marc Ribot @ Jazz à Porquerolles 2010
2010
Archie Shepp Quartet: Live from the Teatro Alfieri - Torino 1977: Part 2
2009
as Self
24 Bars
2007
as Marcus
3.2
Mystery Mister Ra
1984
as Self
Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie
1984
as Self
9
Imagine the Sound
1981
as Self
7.2
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971
as Self
7.5
The Pan-African Festival in Algiers
1969
as Self
6
Archie Shepp chez les Touaregs
1969
as Self
10