Jack Shepherd

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.

Known For

Midsomer Murders

Silent Witness

Play for Today

Play for Today

Waking the Dead

Screen Two

Screen Two

Thirty-Minute Theatre

All Movies (63)

• Greed2019 · as Eric Weeks
• Greyhawk2014 · as Howard
• Into the Storm2009 · as Neville Chamberlain
• God on Trial2008 · as Kuhn
• The Golden Compass2007 · as Master
• A Dad for Christmas2006 · as Bert
• The Only Boy for Me2006 · as Grandpa
• All About George2005 · as Gordon
• A Cock and Bull Story2005 · as Surgeon
• Boudica2003 · as Claudius
• The Other Boleyn Girl2003 · as Thomas Boleyn
• Ultimate Fights from the Movies2002 · as Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
• Man and Boy2002 · as Paddy Silver
• Charlotte Gray2001 · as Pichon
• The Martins2001 · as DI Tony Branch
• Lorna Doone2001 · as Reuben Huckaback
• Wonderland1999 · as Bill
• The Scarlet Tunic1998 · as Dr. Edward Grove
• Hope In The Year Two1994 · as Prisoner
• No Escape1994 · as Dysart
• Trust Me1992 · as Blake
• Tales from Hollywood1992 · as Bertolt Brecht
• Blue Ice1992 · as Stevens
• Blue Black Permanent1992 · as Philip Lomax
• Twenty-One1991 · as Kenneth
• A Woman at War1991 · as Tobias Moszkiewiez
• Misterioso1991 · as Paul Webster
• The Object of Beauty1991 · as Marty Slaughter
• Crimestrike1990 · as Director of Public Prosecutions
• The Big Man1990 · as Referee
• Van Gogh1990 · as Paul Gaugin
• Shoot to Kill1990 · as DCC John Stalker
• Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage1989 · as Joe Marriot
• Nobody Here But Us Chickens1989
• The Act1989 · as Johann Frink
• Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story1989 · as Brodi
• The Angry Earth1989 · as Doctor Price
• Lights and Shadows1988 · as Teo
• The Party1988 · as Malcolm Sloman
• Body Contact1987 · as Dickie Finn
• Scoop1987 · as Corker
• Escape from Sobibor1987 · as Itzhak Lichtman
• The Hospice1987 · as Maybury
• Hard Travelling1986 · as Harry
• A Room for the Winter1981 · as James van Stanten
• Sons and Lovers1981 · as Baxter Dawes
• The Unborn1980 · as Colin
• Nina1978
• Two Days That Shook the Branch1978 · as Des Hardy
• Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat1978 · as H1B
• Count Dracula1977 · as Renfield
• Ready When You Are, Mr McGill1976 · as Phil Parish - Director
• Through the Night1975 · as Dr Pearce
• A Pint of Plain1975
• Occupations1974 · as Antonio Gramsci
• Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?1974 · as Wallace Pidgeon
• All Good Men1974
• The Ballad of Ben Bagot1973 · as Willy Lit
• Something to Hide1972 · as Joe Pepper
• Roll On Four O'Clock1970 · as Jack Youngman
• The Virgin Soldiers1969 · as Sgt Wellbeloved
• The Bed Sitting Room1969 · as Underwater Vicar
• All Neat in Black Stockings1969 · as Dwyer

All TV Shows (54)

• Fearless2017 · as Arthur Banville
• Rebellion2016 · as General William Lowe
• The Politician's Husband2013 · as Joe Hoynes
• The Nativity2010 · as Melchior
• Thorne2010 · as Jim Thorne
• Moving On2009 · as Charlie
• Fixer2008
• The Chase2006
• All About George2005
• All About George2005 · as Gordon
• London2004 · as Thomas de Quincey
• The Jury2002 · as Ron Maher
• Waking the Dead2001 · as Ralph Palmer
• High Stakes2001
• Lorna Doone2000 · as Reuben Huckaback
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Magnus Soane
• Silent Witness1996
• Wycliffe1994 · as Detective Superintendent Wycliffe
• Calling the Shots1994 · as Nick
• Between the Lines1992
• Performance1991 · as Bertolt Brecht
• Shoot to Kill1990 · as DCC John Stalker
• Screen One1989 · as Blake
• The Play on One1988 · as Malcolm Sloman
• The Play on One1988 · as Paul
• ScreenPlay1986 · as Johann Frink
• Lovejoy1986 · as Jamie
• The Mysteries1985 · as Lucifer / Judas / Satan
• Screen Two1985 · as Harry
• Screen Two1985 · as Prisoner
• Scorpion Tales1978 · as Mark Hawkins
• Count Dracula1977 · as Renfield
• BBC2 Play of the Week1977 · as H1B
• Bill Brand1976 · as Bill Brand
• Red Letter Day1976 · as Phil Parish - Director
• The Girls of Slender Means1975 · as Rudi Bittesch
• Churchill's People1974 · as Cornet Henry Denne
• Playhouse1974 · as Colin Brent
• Second City Firsts1973 · as Gordon
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries1973 · as David Belcito
• Full House1972 · as Actor in Sketches
• Budgie1971 · as PC Donnelly
• Budgie1971 · as Det. Constable Leadbetter
• Play for Today1970 · as William Waite
• Play for Today1970 · as Wallace Pidgeon
• Plays of Today1969 · as Weaver
• World in Ferment1969 · as Doug Searchbaker
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969 · as Jack Youngman
• Omnibus1967 · as Self
• Omnibus1967 · as Gaughin
• ITV Playhouse1967 · as Tommy Smith
• ITV Playhouse1967 · as Des Hardy
• Trapped1967 · as Webber
• Thirty-Minute Theatre1965 · as 'Wing Nut' Williams