Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp

Acting

Birthday

1937/05/24 (87 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Also know as

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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...Read more

Acting
24 mesures
3.0

(2007) 24 Bars

as Marcus

Monk, Pannonica et les jazzmen
8.0

(2022) Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

as Self

Festival Panafricain d'Alger
6.0

(1969) The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

as Self

0.0

(2014) The Sound Before the Fury

as Self

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
7.2

(2019) Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

as Self - Musician

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
6.7

(2022) Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Archie Shepp chez les Touaregs
10.0

(1969) Archie Shepp chez les Touaregs

as Self

0.0

Archie Shepp Quartet - Warsaw (Poland) 1978

as Themself

Mystery Mister Ra
0.0

(1984) Mystery Mister Ra

as ---

Imagine the Sound
6.6

(1981) Imagine the Sound

as Self

Dark Gable
0.0

(2011) Dark Gable

as ---

Scala Milan AC
0.0

(2005) Scala Milan AC

as ---

Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie
0.0

(1984) Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie

as Self