David Shepard

Film preservationist -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Without him, I would literally not be in business. He saved hundreds if not thousands of films, most of them from the silent era. He was an original staffer at the American Film Institute, and solicited tons of films from studios and collectors; then he went ot work for fabled Blackhawk Films, the Iowa independent distribution house that specialized in 16m prints of old and rare films (of which we saw many in our grandparents' basement, as did many our our generation). Finally, he wound up with Blackhawk's hardware, stock, and catalog. A sleuth, a curator, a technical expert, he put the whole world of silent film into our hands, giving me and others much to study and write about for decades. I am just going to shamelessly cut and paste his PARTIAL filmography from Wikipedia right here. It's staggering.

Partial list of films restored by Shepard[edit]

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
• A Farewell to Arms (1932)
• A Woman of Paris (1923)
• Aelita (1924)
• The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
• America (1924)
• Atlantis (1913)
• Destiny (1921)
• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• The Black Pirate (1926)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• Carmen (1915)
• The Cat and the Canary (1927)
• The Cheat (1915)
• City Lights (1931)
• Cobra (1925)
• Convict 13 (1920)
• The Coward (1915)
• Destiny (1921)
• Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
• Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
• Earth (1930)
• The Emperor Jones (1933)
• Faces of Children (1925)
• Faust (1926)
• Foolish Wives (1922)
• Flirting With Fate (1916)
• The Gaucho (1927)
• The General (1926)
• Go West (1925)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• His New Job (1915)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
• The Indian Tomb (1921)
• Intolerance (1916)
• The Italian (1915)
• J'accuse (1919)
• Kean (1924)
• The Kid (1921)
• A King in New York (1957)
• The Last Laugh (1924)
• Leaves from Satan's Book (1921)
• Long Pants (1927)
• The Lost World (1925), restored version released April 6, 2001
• The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
• Male and Female (1919)
• Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
• The Mark of Zorro (1920)
• The Marriage Circle (1924)
• The Married Virgin (1918)
• The Matrimaniac (1916)
• Meet John Doe (1941)
• Modern Times (1936)
• The Mollycoddle (1920)
• Monte Cristo (1922)
• Moods of the Sea (1941)
• Nanook of the North (1922)
• The Navigator (1924)
• Nosferatu (1922), restored version released January 2, 2001
• Orphans of the Storm (1921)
• Our Daily Bread (1934)
• Outside the Law (1920)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• The Pilgrim (1923)
• Prison Train (1938)
• Regeneration (1915)
• Robin Hood (1922)
• La Roue (1923)
• Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
• Salome (1923)
• Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
• Shadows (1922)
• The Sheik (1921)
• Siegfried (1924)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
• The Son of the Sheik (1926)
• Steamboat Bill (1928)
• Storm Over Asia (1928)
• Strike (1925)
• The Strong Man (1926)
• Sunrise (1927)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
• The Three Musketeers (1921)
• Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
• Tol'able David (1921)
• Traffic in Souls (1913)
• Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
• True Heart Susie (1919)
• Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
• Les Vampires (1915)
• The Volga Boatman (1926)
• Within Our Gates (1920)