Jewel Shepard

Acting

Jewel Shepard

Born 1958-01-03 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

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. Source: Article "Jewel Shepard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Zapped! poster
5.1

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 itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?

Zapped!

1982

The Artist poster
7.4

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 Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

The Artist

2011

The Return of the Living Dead poster
7.2

Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.

The Return of the Living Dead

1985

The Cooler poster
6.7

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 imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.

The Cooler

2003

My Tutor poster
5.1

High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive 29-year-old to tutor Bobby over the summer and help him pass a make-up exam. While Bobby's friends lead him away into strange excursions aimed at losing their virginity, Bobby finds all the extracurricular activities he needs with his new tutor.

My Tutor

1983

Party Camp poster
4.3

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 into Party Central.

Party Camp

1987

Scanner Cop II poster
5.2

When other Scanners in the Los Angeles area are left drained of life, Sam is forced back into action in a desperate attempt to stop Volkin, who is determined to become the most powerful - and ruthless - of his kind.

Scanner Cop II

1995

Hollywood Hot Tubs poster
3.8

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 in Hollywood Hot Tubs. After changing the famous "Hollywood" sign to "Hollyweed," Shawn Wright is given a choice of jail or getting a job. He takes a job as a hot tub plumber, and thus begins his arduous adventure into the wild world of sensuous starlets and star-studded parties in bubbling Hollywood tubs.

Hollywood Hot Tubs

1984

Raw Force poster
5.4

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 Hitler lookalike and his gang are running a female slavery operation on the island as well. Soon, the two groups meet and all sorts of crazy things happen which include cannibal monks, piranhas, zombies, and more!

Raw Force

1982

Teen Lust poster
4.1

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 community. Before long, every husband in the vicinity has fallen for their charms.

Teen Lust

1978

Christina poster
4.4

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 into the clutches of a gang of gourmet chefs who want a piece of the ransom themselves.

Christina

1984

The Underachievers poster
4.8

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 adult-education class, he falls for the tempting teacher. He joins a colorful group of characters that includes ex-cons, illegal aliens, and brain-dead baby boomers that cause more trouble than their younger counterparts. Swimming classes and wine tastings serve as background for a series of comic catastrophes.

The Underachievers

1988

Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors poster
6.7

Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention.

Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors

1986

Going Undercover poster
2.8

Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of P.I.s to protect Marigold from Mr. Brilliant. His name, he's not.

Going Undercover

1988

Sexercise poster
1.0

In the tradition of Kitten Natividad's Eroticise, Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout and Warm Up with Traci Lords comes yet another B movie actress exercise tape. This one features Jewel Shepard in an "exotic Hawaiian sexercise adventure" with special guests Michelle Bauer and The Naughty Nurse.

Sexercise

1994

Scenes from the Goldmine poster
4.9

A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.

Scenes from the Goldmine

1987

Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crystal poster
3.2

Valley girl, Crystal, is back in another superheated frolic through those "Hollywood Hot Tubs." This time Crystal is trying to keep their uninhibited hot tub business afloat, while her mother is about to marry a conman who's posing as an Arab prince. Meanwhile, their watertight handyman, who just happens to be a retired legendary guitarist, is being seduced back into the spotlight. The fun and clothing are set loose in this rock 'n' roll splash that'll leave you steaming.

Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crystal

1990

Roots of Evil poster
3.8

A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.

Roots of Evil

1992

The Junkman poster
5.1

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 their net, stay alive and discover who is behind this lethal plan, will take Hollis through a fiery battle, turning highways and city streets into a blazing junkyard.

The Junkman

1982

The Sex and Violence Family Hour poster
4.1

A jumble of sexual skits such as The Big Salami, The Brady Bang, And Leather And Chains.

The Sex and Violence Family Hour

1983

More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead poster
7.4

Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead."

More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead

2011

Mission: Killfast poster
4.1

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 supplying a diabolical terrorist organization with nuclear weapons! Fully loaded with bone-crushing kung fu mayhem, sexy, scantily clad women and extreme firepower!

Mission: Killfast

1991

Slasher.com poster
3.2

After meeting online, Jack and Kristy go on a weekend getaway to the woodlands of rural Missouri. While discovering each other, they soon learn of the terrorizing horrors that the forest has in store.

Slasher.com

2017

No artwork available
8.0

The well-traveled actress models in exotic locations around the world.

Jewel Naked Around the World

1995

Behind the camera