Archie Shepp

Actor

Born: May 24, 1937 (age 89)
From: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

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…

Filmography (14)

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Monk & Pannonica: An American Story (2022)
Self
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
Self - Musician
The Sound Before the Fury (2014)
Self
Dark Gable (2011)
Archie Shepp Quartet: Live from the Teatro Alfieri - Torino 1977: Part 2 (2009)
Self
24 Bars (2007)
Marcus
Scala Milan AC (2005)
Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie (1984)
Self
Mystery Mister Ra (1984)
Self
Imagine the Sound (1981)
Self
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally (1971)
Self
The Pan-african Festival in Algiers (1969)
Self
Archie Shepp chez les Touaregs (1969)
Self