Jack Shepherd

Acting · Writing

Born October 29, 1940, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

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

• 2019Greed — Eric Weeks
• Fearless — Arthur Banville
• Rebellion — General William Lowe
• 2014Greyhawk — Howard
• The Politician's Husband — Joe Hoynes
• The Nativity — Melchior
• Thorne — Jim Thorne
• 2009Into the Storm — Neville Chamberlain
• Moving On — Charlie
• 2008God on Trial — Kuhn
• The Fixer
• 2007The Golden Compass — Master
• 2006A Dad for Christmas — Bert
• The Chase
• 2006The Only Boy for Me — Grandpa
• 2005A Cock and Bull Story — Surgeon
• All About George — Gordon
• London — Thomas de Quincey
• 2003Boudica — Claudius
• 2003The Other Boleyn Girl — Thomas Boleyn
• 2002Man and Boy — Paddy Silver
• The Jury — Ron Maher
• 2002Ultimate Fights from the Movies — Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
• 2001Charlotte Gray — Pichon
• High Stakes
• 2001Lorna Doone — Reuben Huckaback
• 2001The Martins — DI Tony Branch
• Waking the Dead — Ralph Palmer
• Lorna Doone — Reuben Huckaback
• 1999Wonderland — Bill
• 1998The Scarlet Tunic — Dr. Edward Grove
• Midsomer Murders — Magnus Soane
• Silent Witness
• Calling the Shots — Nick
• 1994Hope in the Year Two — Prisoner
• 1994No Escape — Dysart
• Wycliffe — Detective Superintendent Wycliffe, Director
• 1993In Lambeth — Writer
• Between the Lines
• 1992Blue Black Permanent — Philip Lomax
• 1992Blue Ice — Stevens
• 1992Tales from Hollywood — Bertolt Brecht
• 1992Trust Me — Blake
• 1991A Woman at War — Tobias Moszkiewiez
• 1991Misterioso — Paul Webster
• Performance — Bertolt Brecht
• 1991The Object of Beauty — Marty Slaughter
• 1991Twenty-One — Kenneth
• 1990Crimestrike — Director of Public Prosecutions
• 1990Shoot to Kill — DCC John Stalker
• Shoot to Kill — DCC John Stalker
• 1990The Big Man — Referee
• 1990Van Gogh — Paul Gaugin
• 4 Play — Mr. Allsop
• 1989Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage — Joe Marriot
• 1989Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story — Brodi
• 1989Nobody Here But Us Chickens
• Screen One — Blake
• 1989The Act — Johann Frink
• 1989The Angry Earth — Doctor Price
• Blind Justice — Frank Cartwright
• 1988Lights and Shadows — Teo
• 1988The Party — Malcolm Sloman
• The Play on One — Malcolm Sloman, Paul
• 1987Body Contact — Dickie Finn
• 1987Escape from Sobibor — Itzhak Lichtman
• 1987Scoop — Corker
• 1987The Hospice — Maybury
• Tickets for the Titanic — Rev David Williams
• 1986Hard Travelling — Harry
• Lovejoy — Jamie
• ScreenPlay — Johann Frink
• Screen Two — Harry, Prisoner
• The Mysteries — Lucifer / Judas / Satan
• American Playhouse — Bertolt Brecht
• 1981A Room for the Winter — James van Stanten
• 1981Clapperclaw — Writer
• 1981Sons and Lovers — Baxter Dawes
• 1980The Unborn — Colin
• 1978Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat — H1B
• 1978Nina
• Scorpion Tales — Mark Hawkins
• 1978Two Days That Shook the Branch — Des Hardy
• BBC2 Play of the Week — H1B
• 1977Count Dracula — Renfield
• Count Dracula — Renfield
• Bill Brand — Bill Brand
• 1976Ready When You Are, Mr McGill — Phil Parish - Director
• Red Letter Day — Phil Parish - Director
• 1975A Pint of Plain
• The Girls of Slender Means — Rudi Bittesch
• 1975Through the Night — Dr Pearce
• 1974All Good Men
• Churchill's People — Cornet Henry Denne
• 1974Occupations — Antonio Gramsci
• 1974Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove? — Wallace Pidgeon
• Playhouse — Colin Brent, Writer
• 1974The Actual Woman — Writer
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries — David Belcito
• Second City Firsts — Gordon, Writer
• 1973Something to Hide — Joe Pepper
• 1973The Ballad of Ben Bagot — Willy Lit
• Full House — Actor in Sketches
• Budgie — PC Donnelly, Det. Constable Leadbetter
• Play for Today — William Waite, Wallace Pidgeon
• 1970Roll On Four O'Clock — Jack Youngman
• 1969All Neat in Black Stockings — Dwyer
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Jack Youngman
• Plays of Today — Weaver
• 1969The Bed Sitting Room — Underwater Vicar
• 1969The Virgin Soldiers — Sgt Wellbeloved
• World in Ferment — Doug Searchbaker
• ITV Playhouse — Tommy Smith, Des Hardy
• Omnibus — Self, Gaughin
• Trapped — Webber
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — 'Wing Nut' Williams