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
- The Chase
- The Only Boy for Me as Grandpa
- A Dad for Christmas as Bert
2005
- All About George
- A Cock and Bull Story as Surgeon
- All About George as Gordon
2004
- London as Thomas de Quincey
2003
- Boudica as Claudius
- The Other Boleyn Girl as Thomas Boleyn
2002
- The Jury as Ron Maher
- Ultimate Fights from the Movies as Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
- Man and Boy as Paddy Silver
2001
- Waking the Dead as Ralph Palmer
- Charlotte Gray as Pichon
- High Stakes
- Lorna Doone as Reuben Huckaback
- The Martins as DI Tony Branch
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
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
- Blue Black Permanent as Philip Lomax
- Tales from Hollywood as Bertolt Brecht
1991
- Performance as Bertolt Brecht
- The Object of Beauty as Marty Slaughter
- A Woman at War as Tobias Moszkiewiez
- Twenty-One as Kenneth
- Misterioso as Paul Webster
1990
- The Big Man as Referee
- Shoot to Kill as DCC John Stalker
- Crimestrike as Director of Public Prosecutions
- Van Gogh as Paul Gaugin
- Shoot to Kill as DCC John Stalker
1989
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Brodi
- The Angry Earth as Doctor Price
- Nobody Here But Us Chickens
- Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage as Joe Marriot
- The Act as Johann Frink
1988
- The Play on One as Paul
- 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
- Lovejoy as Jamie
- Hard Travelling as Harry
1985
- 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
- Two Days That Shook the Branch as Des Hardy
- Nina
- Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat as H1B
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week as H1B
- Count Dracula as Renfield
- Count Dracula as Renfield
1976
- Bill Brand as Bill Brand
- 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
- 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
- The Virgin Soldiers as Sgt Wellbeloved
- The Bed Sitting Room as Underwater Vicar
- All Neat in Black Stockings as Dwyer
- World in Ferment as Doug Searchbaker
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- ITV Playhouse as Tommy Smith