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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. 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.
Jean Shepard (born Ollie Imogene Shepard: November 21, 1933 – September 25, 2016) was an American honky-tonk singer who is often acknowledged as a pioneer for women in country music. Shepard released a total of 73 singles to the Hot Country Songs chart, one of which reached the number-one spot.
Learn about the life and career of Jean Shepherd, a radio personality, writer and filmmaker who created the character of Ralphie in A Christmas Story. Find out his birth and death dates, family, trivia, quotes and more on IMDb.
- July 26, 1921
- October 16, 1999
Dec 20, 2013 · On Christmas Eve of 1974, Jean Shepherd reads from the story that would later become the movie, "A Christmas Story", live on his long-running WOR-AM radio show.
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- The Jean Shepherd Show
Yet the author and narrator of A Christmas Story, Jean Shepherd, had a deeper legacy of enchanting, subtly barbed storytelling as a longtime voice on nightly radio. In 2008, Steely Dan co-founder...
Dec 24, 2013 · Shepherd died in 1999, just as Turner Broadcasting had begun to make a tradition of its all-day marathon. That small-screen saturation is a huge reason—if not the reason—why audiences...
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Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) was a radio personality, humorist, and author of A Christmas Story and other books. He also wrote and voiced the 1983 film adaptation of his semi-autobiographical stories, and appeared in several TV shows and movies.
