Jack Shepherd

Known for: Acting

Born: 1940-10-29 – 2025-11-24 (aged 85)

From: 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 (112)

MOVIE★ 5.6
Greed
2019
as Eric Weeks
TV★ 6.7
Fearless
2017
as Arthur Banville
TV★ 7.0
Rebellion
2016
as General William Lowe
MOVIE★ 6.4
Greyhawk
2014
as Howard
TV★ 6.8
The Politician's Husband
2013
as Joe Hoynes
TV★ 8.8
The Nativity
2010
as Melchior
TV★ 6.5
Thorne
2010
as Jim Thorne
MOVIE★ 6.4
Into the Storm
2009
as Neville Chamberlain
TV★ 7.3
Moving On
2009
as Charlie
MOVIE★ 6.8
God on Trial
2008
as Kuhn
TV★ 6.6
Fixer
2008
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Golden Compass
2007
as Master
MOVIE★ 6.6
A Dad for Christmas
2006
as Bert
MOVIE★ 4.0
The Only Boy for Me
2006
as Grandpa
TV★ 6.5
The Chase
2006
MOVIE★ 10.0
All About George
2005
as Gordon
TV
All About George
2005
MOVIE★ 6.1
A Cock and Bull Story
2005
as Surgeon
TV★ 10.0
London
2004
as Thomas de Quincey
MOVIE★ 4.8
Boudica
2003
as Claudius
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Other Boleyn Girl
2003
as Thomas Boleyn
MOVIE★ 5.1
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002
as Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.4
Man and Boy
2002
as Paddy Silver
TV★ 7.3
The Jury
2002
as Ron Maher
MOVIE★ 6.1
Charlotte Gray
2001
as Pichon
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Martins
2001
as DI Tony Branch
TV★ 7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
as Ralph Palmer
TV★ 6.5
High Stakes
2001
MOVIE★ 5.8
Lorna Doone
2001
as Reuben Huckaback
TV★ 7.7
Lorna Doone
2000
as Reuben Huckaback
MOVIE★ 6.5
Wonderland
1999
as Bill
MOVIE★ 5.1
The Scarlet Tunic
1998
as Dr. Edward Grove
TV★ 7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Magnus Soane
TV★ 7.6
Silent Witness
1996
TV★ 6.8
Wycliffe
1994
as Detective Superintendent Wycliffe
MOVIE★ 7.0
Hope In The Year Two
1994
as Prisoner
MOVIE★ 6.2
No Escape
1994
as Dysart
TV★ 8.0
Calling the Shots
1994
as Nick
MOVIE★ 8.5
Trust Me
1992
as Blake
MOVIE★ 3.0
Tales from Hollywood
1992
as Bertolt Brecht
MOVIE★ 5.3
Blue Ice
1992
as Stevens
TV★ 5.5
Between the Lines
1992
MOVIE★ 5.6
Blue Black Permanent
1992
as Philip Lomax
TV★ 6.3
Performance
1991
as Bertolt Brecht
MOVIE★ 4.9
Twenty-One
1991
as Kenneth
MOVIE★ 6.5
A Woman at War
1991
as Tobias Moszkiewiez
MOVIE
Misterioso
1991
as Paul Webster
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Object of Beauty
1991
as Marty Slaughter
MOVIE★ 7.0
Crimestrike
1990
as Director of Public Prosecutions
MOVIE★ 4.8
The Big Man
1990
as Referee
MOVIE★ 1.0
Van Gogh
1990
as Paul Gaugin
MOVIE
Shoot to Kill
1990
as DCC John Stalker
TV★ 7.0
Shoot to Kill
1990
as DCC John Stalker
MOVIE★ 4.9
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989
as Joe Marriot
MOVIE
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
TV★ 7.0
4 Play
1989
as Mr. Allsop
TV★ 7.2
Screen One
1989
as Blake
MOVIE
The Act
1989
as Johann Frink
MOVIE★ 5.9
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Brodi
MOVIE★ 4.7
The Angry Earth
1989
as Doctor Price
MOVIE★ 6.1
Lights and Shadows
1988
as Teo
MOVIE
The Party
1988
as Malcolm Sloman
TV★ 6.0
The Play on One
1988
as Malcolm Sloman
MOVIE★ 5.6
Body Contact
1987
as Dickie Finn
MOVIE★ 5.7
Scoop
1987
as Corker
MOVIE★ 7.2
Escape from Sobibor
1987
as Itzhak Lichtman
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Hospice
1987
as Maybury
TV★ 6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
as Johann Frink
MOVIE
Hard Travelling
1986
as Harry
TV★ 7.4
Lovejoy
1986
as Jamie
TV
The Mysteries
1985
as Lucifer / Judas / Satan
TV★ 7.1
Screen Two
1985
as Harry
TV★ 6.6
American Playhouse
1982
as Bertolt Brecht
MOVIE★ 3.3
A Room for the Winter
1981
as James van Stanten
MOVIE
Sons and Lovers
1981
as Baxter Dawes
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Unborn
1980
as Colin
MOVIE★ 4.8
Nina
1978
MOVIE
Two Days That Shook the Branch
1978
as Des Hardy
TV★ 7.3
Scorpion Tales
1978
as Mark Hawkins
MOVIE
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978
as H1B
MOVIE★ 7.0
Count Dracula
1977
as Renfield
TV★ 9.0
Count Dracula
1977
as Renfield
TV★ 7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as H1B
TV★ 7.3
Bill Brand
1976
as Bill Brand
MOVIE★ 10.0
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
1976
as Phil Parish - Director
TV★ 6.0
Red Letter Day
1976
as Phil Parish - Director
MOVIE
Through the Night
1975
as Dr Pearce
TV★ 3.7
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
as Rudi Bittesch
MOVIE
A Pint of Plain
1975
TV★ 5.0
Churchill's People
1974
as Cornet Henry Denne
MOVIE
Occupations
1974
as Antonio Gramsci
MOVIE
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
1974
as Wallace Pidgeon
TV★ 7.0
Playhouse
1974
as Colin Brent
MOVIE
All Good Men
1974
MOVIE
The Ballad of Ben Bagot
1973
as Willy Lit
TV
Second City Firsts
1973
as Gordon
TV★ 6.8
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as David Belcito
TV
Full House
1972
as Actor in Sketches
MOVIE★ 5.8
Something to Hide
1972
as Joe Pepper
TV★ 7.2
Budgie
1971
as PC Donnelly
MOVIE★ 6.0
Roll On Four O'Clock
1970
as Jack Youngman
TV★ 6.6
Play for Today
1970
as William Waite
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Virgin Soldiers
1969
as Sgt Wellbeloved
TV
Plays of Today
1969
as Weaver
TV★ 10.0
World in Ferment
1969
as Doug Searchbaker
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Bed Sitting Room
1969
as Underwater Vicar
MOVIE★ 4.0
All Neat in Black Stockings
1969
as Dwyer
TV★ 7.0
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Jack Youngman
TV★ 7.2
Omnibus
1967
as Self
TV★ 7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Tommy Smith
TV
Trapped
1967
as Webber
TV★ 4.2
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as 'Wing Nut' Williams