David Haspel Shepard (October 22, 1940 – January 31, 2017) was an American film preservationist whose company, Film Preservation Associates, is responsible for many high-quality video versions of silent films. Some come from the Blackhawk Films library (owned by Shepard)

Affiliates

  • Film Preservation Associates, Serge Bromberg (Lobster Films)
  • Film Preservation Associates, Benjamin Scott Baker (Assistant to Producer)

Partial list of restored films

  • 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)
  • ' (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)
  • The Non-Stop Kid (1918)
  • Nosferatu (1922), restored version released January 2, 2001
  • Oliver Twist (1922)
  • 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, Jr. (1928)
  • Storm Over Asia (1928)
  • Strike (1925)
  • The Strong Man (1926)
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
  • Tempest (1928)
  • 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)

Awards

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! Year

! Award

! Category

! Result

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| 1989

| International Documentary Association

| Preservation and Scholarship Award

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| 1999

| Saturn Award

| The President's Memorial Award

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| 2000

| San Francisco International Film Festival

| Mel Novikoff Award

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| 2005

| Los Angeles Film Critics Association

| Special Citation

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| 2006

| National Society of Film Critics

| Special Award

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|2011

| Denver Silent Film Festival

| Lifetime Achievement Award

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References

  • 2006 interview at Silents Are Golden
  • 2000 interview at digitallyOBSESSED
  • 2016 interview on Modern Times Podcast
  • 2017 interview with film historian Russell Merritt
  • 2011 interview at Northwest Chicago Film Society