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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 29, 1940
Died
November 24, 2025
Place of Birth
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Jack Shepherd
1.4 Popularity
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
Credits
Greed
as Eric Weeks
2019
5.6
Fearless
as Arthur Banville
2017
6.7
Rebellion
as General William Lowe
2016
7.0
Greyhawk
as Howard
2014
6.4
The Politician's Husband
as Joe Hoynes
2013
6.8
The Nativity
as Melchior
2010
8.8
Thorne
as Jim Thorne
2010
6.5
Into the Storm
as Neville Chamberlain
2009
6.3
Moving On
as Charlie
2009
7.1
God on Trial
as Kuhn
2008
6.8
Fixer
2008
6.6
The Golden Compass
as Master
2007
6.1
A Dad for Christmas
as Bert
2006
6.6
🎬
The Only Boy for Me
as Grandpa
2006
4.0
The Chase
2006
6.0
All About George
2005
0.0
All About George
as Gordon
2005
0.0
A Cock and Bull Story
as Surgeon
2005
6.1
🎬
London
as Thomas de Quincey
2004
0.0
Boudica
as Claudius
2003
4.7
The Other Boleyn Girl
as Thomas Boleyn
2003
7.3
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
2002
4.9
Man and Boy
as Paddy Silver
2002
4.5
The Jury
as Ron Maher
2002
6.8
Charlotte Gray
as Pichon
2001
6.1
The Martins
as DI Tony Branch
2001
5.2
Waking the Dead
as Ralph Palmer
2001
7.2
High Stakes
2001
6.0
Lorna Doone
as Reuben Huckaback
2001
5.7
Lorna Doone
as Reuben Huckaback
2000
7.7
Wonderland
as Bill
1999
6.4
🎬
The Scarlet Tunic
as Dr. Edward Grove
1998
4.5
Midsomer Murders
as Magnus Soane
1997
7.5
Silent Witness
1996
7.5
Wycliffe
as Detective Superintendent Wycliffe
1994
6.0
Hope In The Year Two
as Prisoner
1994
0.0
No Escape
as Dysart
1994
6.3
Calling the Shots
as Nick
1994
8.0
Trust Me
as Blake
1992
7.0
Tales from Hollywood
as Bertolt Brecht
1992
1.0
Blue Ice
as Stevens
1992
5.0
Between the Lines
1992
5.2
Blue Black Permanent
as Philip Lomax
1992
5.5
Performance
as Bertolt Brecht
1991
6.0
Twenty-one
as Kenneth
1991
4.5
A Woman at War
as Tobias Moszkiewiez
1991
4.0
Misterioso
as Paul Webster
1991
0.0
The Object of Beauty
as Marty Slaughter
1991
5.3
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Crimestrike
as Director of Public Prosecutions
1990
0.0
The Big Man
as Referee
1990
4.8
Shoot to Kill
as DCC John Stalker
1990
5.5
Shoot to Kill
as DCC John Stalker
1990
0.0
🎬
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
as Joe Marriot
1989
4.4
🎬
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
0.0
The Act
as Johann Frink
1989
0.0
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Brodi
1989
5.7
The Angry Earth
as Doctor Price
1989
2.0
🎬
Lights and Shadows
as Teo
1988
5.8
The Party
as Malcolm Sloman
1988
0.0
The Play on One
as Malcolm Sloman
1988
6.0
The Play on One
as Paul
1988
6.0
Body Contact
as Dickie Finn
1987
4.2
Scoop
as Corker
1987
5.2
Escape from Sobibor
as Itzhak Lichtman
1987
7.2
The Hospice
as Maybury
1987
6.0
Hard Travelling
as Harry
1986
0.0
Lovejoy
as Jamie
1986
7.3
The Mysteries
as Lucifer / Judas / Satan
1985
0.0
🎬
A Room for the Winter
as James van Stanten
1981
1.0
Sons and Lovers
as Baxter Dawes
1981
0.0
The Unborn
as Colin
1980
0.0
Nina
1978
4.8
🎬
Two Days That Shook the Branch
as Des Hardy
1978
0.0
Scorpion Tales
as Mark Hawkins
1978
6.0
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
as H1B
1978
0.0
Count Dracula
as Renfield
1977
7.0
Count Dracula
as Renfield
1977
9.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as H1B
1977
7.0
Bill Brand
as Bill Brand
1976
6.3
🎬
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Phil Parish - Director
1976
10.0
Through the Night
as Dr Pearce
1975
0.0
The Girls of Slender Means
as Rudi Bittesch
1975
1.0
A Pint of Plain
1975
0.0
Churchill's People
as Cornet Henry Denne
1974
1.0
Occupations
as Antonio Gramsci
1974
0.0
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
as Wallace Pidgeon
1974
0.0
Playhouse
as Colin Brent
1974
7.0
All Good Men
1974
0.0
The Ballad of Ben Bagot
as Willy Lit
1973
0.0
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as David Belcito
1973
6.7
🎬
Full House
as Actor in Sketches
1972
0.0
Something to Hide
as Joe Pepper
1972
5.2
Budgie
as PC Donnelly
1971
7.0
Budgie
as Det. Constable Leadbetter
1971
7.0
Roll On Four O'Clock
as Jack Youngman
1970
6.0
Play for Today
as William Waite
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Wallace Pidgeon
1970
6.3
The Virgin Soldiers
as Sgt Wellbeloved
1969
6.5
🎬
World in Ferment
as Doug Searchbaker
1969
0.0
The Bed Sitting Room
as Underwater Vicar
1969
5.9
All Neat in Black Stockings
as Dwyer
1969
3.0
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
Omnibus
as Gaughin
1967
7.2