Jack Shepherd

Born: 1940-10-29 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

Died: 2025-11-24

Known For: Acting

Biography

Jack Shepherd was an English actor, playwright, theatre director, saxophone player and jazz pianist, who made his film debut in 1969 with All Neat in Black Stockings and The Virgin Soldiers. He is perhaps best known for his television roles, most notably the title role in detective drama Wycliffe. His daughter Catherine Shepherd is also an actress.

Filmography

2019

Greed as Eric Weeks

2017

Fearless as Arthur Banville

2016

Rebellion as General William Lowe

2014

Greyhawk as Howard

2013

The Politician's Husband as Joe Hoynes

2010

Thorne as Jim Thorne
The Nativity as Melchior

2009

Moving On as Charlie
Into the Storm as Neville Chamberlain

2008

Fixer
God on Trial as Kuhn

2007

The Golden Compass as Master

2006

2005

2004

London as Thomas de Quincey

2003

The Other Boleyn Girl as Thomas Boleyn
Boudica as Claudius

2002

The Jury as Ron Maher
Man and Boy as Paddy Silver
Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)

2001

Waking the Dead as Ralph Palmer
Charlotte Gray as Pichon
The Martins as DI Tony Branch
Lorna Doone as Reuben Huckaback
High Stakes

2000

Lorna Doone as Reuben Huckaback

1999

Wonderland as Bill

1998

The Scarlet Tunic as Dr. Edward Grove

1997

Midsomer Murders as Magnus Soane

1996

Silent Witness

1994

Wycliffe as Detective Superintendent Wycliffe
No Escape as Dysart
Calling the Shots as Nick
Hope In The Year Two as Prisoner

1993

In Lambeth ... (Writer)

1992

Between the Lines
Blue Ice as Stevens
Trust Me as Blake
Tales from Hollywood as Bertolt Brecht
Blue Black Permanent as Philip Lomax

1991

Performance as Bertolt Brecht
Twenty-One as Kenneth
The Object of Beauty as Marty Slaughter
A Woman at War as Tobias Moszkiewiez
Misterioso as Paul Webster

1990

The Big Man as Referee
Shoot to Kill as DCC John Stalker
Shoot to Kill as DCC John Stalker
Van Gogh as Paul Gaugin
Crimestrike as Director of Public Prosecutions

1989

Screen One as Blake
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Brodi
The Act as Johann Frink
The Angry Earth as Doctor Price
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage as Joe Marriot
Nobody Here But Us Chickens

1988

The Play on One as Malcolm Sloman
The Party as Malcolm Sloman
Lights and Shadows as Teo

1987

Escape from Sobibor as Itzhak Lichtman
Body Contact as Dickie Finn
Scoop as Corker
The Hospice as Maybury

1986

ScreenPlay as Johann Frink
Lovejoy as Jamie
Hard Travelling as Harry

1985

Screen Two as Harry
The Mysteries as Lucifer / Judas / Satan

1981

Clapperclaw ... (Writer)
Sons and Lovers as Baxter Dawes
A Room for the Winter as James van Stanten

1980

The Unborn as Colin

1978

Scorpion Tales as Mark Hawkins
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat as H1B
Two Days That Shook the Branch as Des Hardy
Nina

1977

BBC2 Play of the Week as H1B
Count Dracula as Renfield
Count Dracula as Renfield

1976

Bill Brand as Bill Brand
Red Letter Day as Phil Parish - Director
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill as Phil Parish - Director

1975

The Girls of Slender Means as Rudi Bittesch
A Pint of Plain
Through the Night as Dr Pearce

1974

Playhouse as Colin Brent
Churchill's People as Cornet Henry Denne
Occupations as Antonio Gramsci
All Good Men
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove? as Wallace Pidgeon
The Actual Woman ... (Writer)

1973

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as David Belcito
Second City Firsts as Gordon
The Ballad of Ben Bagot as Willy Lit

1972

Full House as Actor in Sketches
Something to Hide as Joe Pepper

1971

Budgie as PC Donnelly

1970

Play for Today as William Waite
Roll On Four O'Clock as Jack Youngman

1969

ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Jack Youngman
Plays of Today as Weaver
The Bed Sitting Room as Underwater Vicar
The Virgin Soldiers as Sgt Wellbeloved
All Neat in Black Stockings as Dwyer
World in Ferment as Doug Searchbaker

1967

Omnibus as Self
ITV Playhouse as Tommy Smith
Trapped as Webber

1965

Thirty-Minute Theatre as 'Wing Nut' Williams