Jewel Shepard
Jewel Shepard is an American writer, photographer, and actress, best known for her roles in movies such as Party Camp (1987) and Return of the Living Dead (1985).
Shephard arrived in California in the early 80s, where she supported herself by working as a stripper in various Los Angeles strip clubs and modeling for car shoots. It was during her time stripping that she met genre filmmaker Dan O'Bannon. After a number of small television roles, Shepard broke into film with H. B. Halicki's The Junkman (1982). Roles in over a dozen B movies followed; including 1985's The Return of the Living Dead, which was directed and written by O'Bannon. In 1992 she capitalized on her "B-girl" status by penning Invasion of the B-Girls, a book of interviews with cult actresses such as Kitten Natividad, Linnea Quigley, Yvette Vickers, Haji, and Mary Woronov. She has also written for such publications as Premiere, Cosmopolitan, Details, and The Associated Press.
Her autobiography, If I'm So Famous, How Come Nobody's Ever Heard of Me?, detailing some of the less glamorous aspects of film making and her experiences working in adult entertainment, was published in 1996.
Shepard has been struggling with invasive breast cancer since 2011, and has been treated with chemotherapy, lymph node removal and a double mastectomy.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.998 |
Birthday | 1958-01-03 |
Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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1985
The Return of the Living Dead
7.146/1967
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally...
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The Return of the Living Dead
1982
Raw Force
5.402/46
A group of martial arts students are en route to an island that supposedly is home to the ghosts of martial artists who have lost their honor. A Hitle...
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1982
Electric Blue 008
0/0
Annie Ample hosts this chapter in the long running video series from Kicker's Bar in Santa Monica, California, where women (including Michelle Bauer)...
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Electric Blue 008
1984
Hollywood Hot Tubs
3.667/12
All hilarity breaks loose in this rousing and raucous tale of Hollywood hi-jinks and chicanery as a teenage delinquent turns plumber... and turns up i...
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Hollywood Hot Tubs
2011
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
7.598/41
Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead."
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1984
Christina
4.2/20
Christina Von Belle, a wealthy heiress, is kidnapped by a lesbian terrorist group and held for ransom. She escapes the lesbian terrorists only to fall...
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1987
Party Camp
4.3/6
A teenage boy takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp. He finds that the camp is run like a military training camp, and he resolves to turn it int...
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Party Camp
Collection #107: Slow to Blow
0/0
It's Christmas, and someone's been a good boy! His present? A hot brunette (Jewel Shepard as Bobby Beal) who strips for him, then gives him sexual p...
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1990
Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crystal
2/2
Valley girl, Crystal, is back.in another superheated frolic through those "Hollywood Hot Tubs." This time Crystal is trying to. keep their uninhibited...
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Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crystal
1978
Teen Lust
3.2/4
Kirsten Baker and Leslie Cedarquist are the Girls Next Door in this buoyant sexploitationer. The ladies move in bag and baggage into a sleepy suburban...
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2011
The Artist
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Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with...
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1994
Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom
3.8/6
King Lim is the oppressive ruler of a country on the verge of revolution. The CIA arranges a fake assassination to get him safely out of the country,...
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1994
Sexercise
1/1
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2017
Slasher.com
3.4/24
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1992
Roots of Evil
2/2
A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.
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Roots of Evil
1994
If I'm So Famous, How Come Nobody's Ever Heard of Me?
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Documentary (a tie-in to the book of the same name) centered around actress / producer / writer Jewel Shepard. Features clips of the actresses film, t...
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1995
Scanners: The Showdown
5.5/39
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1987
Fantasy Masquerade
0/0
In this 80s answer to burlesque for the video age, a comedian hosts / introduces a succession of strippers.
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Fantasy Masquerade
1988
Going Undercover
2.5/3
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter M...
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1988
The Underachievers
4.8/4
Danny Warren is a former minor-league shortstop that becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this situation comedy. Investigating at a high-school a...
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The Underachievers
1982
The Junkman
4.844/16
As film-maker Harlan Hollis drives to a James Dean festival, he's unaware that killers are tracking his every move. The fast and furious race to avoid...
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The Junkman
1983
The Sex and Violence Family Hour
2.5/6
A jumble of sexual skits such as The Big Salami, The Brady Bang, And Leather And Chains.
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1987
Scenes From the Goldmine
5.2/4
A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.
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Scenes From the Goldmine
1995
Jewel Naked Around the World
0/0
The well-traveled actress models in exotic locations around the world.
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1983
My Tutor
5.036/69
High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive...
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1986
Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
8.2/4
Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention.
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1982
Zapped!
5.202/124
Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward it...
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Zapped!
1991
Mission: Killfast
4.1/9
A high-speed martial arts action/adventure pitting a C.I.A. recruited martial arts master against Las Vegas gangsters and a psychotic arms dealer supp...
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Mission: Killfast
2003
The Cooler
6.697/337
Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His i...
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1996
Almighty Fred
0/0
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2022
Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection
0/0
Dave Stevens created The Rocketeer and reintroduced the world to 50's pin-up model Bettie Page. While carving out his own unique corner of importance...
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