Richard Shepard (born 1965) is an American

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and

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Biography

Shepard was born in

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. Shepard's father was from an Austro-Hungarian-

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background and his mother was of

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descent. In 2007, Shepard received a

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and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for the

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for ''

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''. Shepard's next film, ''

The Perfection ''The Perfection'' is a 2018 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Richard Shepard, from a screenplay by Shepard, Nicole Snyder and Eric C. Charmelo. It stars Allison Williams, Logan Browning and Steven Weber. It had its world ...

'', was financed by

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, and started its production in early 2018. It was released in 2019 by

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Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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eFilmCritic.com Interview with director Richard Shepard on the John Cazale Documentary "I Knew It Was You"Richard Shepard Interview
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Scripts & Scribes
1965 births American male screenwriters American television directors Primetime Emmy Award winners Living people Writers from New York City Directors Guild of America Award winners American people of Armenian descent American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Film directors from New York City Screenwriters from New York (state) {{US-film-director-1960s-stub