Shep Houghton

born: 04 June 1914
Salt Lake City, Utah,
United States of America
died: 15 December 2016
Hoodsport, Washington,
United States of America
(age 102)

American actor. He died (finally) at the unnecessary age of 102. From 1928 until his retirement in 1976, he acted -- almost always as an extra or, in musicals, as a chorus dancer -- in over 300 known films and television episodes.
Real name: George Shephard Houghton
Height: 6'0"
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography;
plus 1 film with Charley Chase.

2


1937
Topper
Waiter

1939
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Pedestrian
NON-HAL ROACH FILMS

1939
The Awful Goof
Groomsman

MISCELLANEOUS
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Acknowledgements:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2SD-QL5B (birth certificate)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGF4-W7Q5 (WWII draft reg. card)
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/last-great-nobodies/ (Los Angeles Review of Books, 04 Jun 2014)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/06/01/shep-houghton-prolific-extra-silent-movie-era-obituary/ (The Telegraph obituary)
Jesse Brisson (information; identification in The Awful Goof)

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