Jack Shepherd
Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK — Oct 29 1940• Died Nov 24 2025
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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.
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Jack Shepherd's Credits
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Midsomer Murders
Magnus Soane
Silent Witness
Play for Today
William Waite
Playhouse
Colin Brent
Waking the Dead
Ralph Palmer
Wycliffe
Detective Superintendent Wycliffe
Omnibus
Self
Performance
Bertolt Brecht
Moving On
Charlie
BBC2 Play of the Week
H1B
Lovejoy
Jamie
Churchill's People
Cornet Henry Denne
Rebellion
General William Lowe
Between the Lines
Budgie
PC Donnelly
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
David Belcito
The Play on One
Malcolm Sloman
Thorne
Jim Thorne
The Jury
Ron Maher
The Golden Compass
Master
The Chase
Fearless
Arthur Banville
Scorpion Tales
Mark Hawkins
Bill Brand
Bill Brand
Fixer
ITV Playhouse
Tommy Smith
The Politician's Husband
Joe Hoynes
Count Dracula
Renfield
Full House
Actor in Sketches
No Escape
Dysart
London
Thomas de Quincey
Lorna Doone
Reuben Huckaback
Greed
Eric Weeks
All About George
The Nativity
Melchior
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
Charlotte Gray
Pichon
High Stakes
The Big Man
Referee
The Virgin Soldiers
Sgt Wellbeloved
Blue Ice
Stevens
Lorna Doone
Reuben Huckaback
The Mysteries
Lucifer / Judas / Satan
Calling the Shots
Nick
Wonderland
Bill
Boudica
Claudius
Into the Storm
Neville Chamberlain
Escape from Sobibor
Itzhak Lichtman
Count Dracula
Renfield
A Cock and Bull Story
Surgeon
The Girls of Slender Means
Rudi Bittesch
Shoot to Kill
DCC John Stalker
God on Trial
Kuhn
The Party
Malcolm Sloman
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Brodi
Shoot to Kill
DCC John Stalker
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Joe Marriot
Hard Travelling
Harry
The Other Boleyn Girl
Thomas Boleyn
The Martins
DI Tony Branch
The Bed Sitting Room
Underwater Vicar
World in Ferment
Doug Searchbaker
Scoop
Corker
The Only Boy for Me
Grandpa
Body Contact
Dickie Finn
A Woman at War
Tobias Moszkiewiez
Twenty-One
Kenneth
All Good Men
Trust Me
Blake
Tales from Hollywood
Bertolt Brecht
Man and Boy
Paddy Silver
All Neat in Black Stockings
Dwyer
A Dad for Christmas
Bert
The Scarlet Tunic
Dr. Edward Grove
The Angry Earth
Doctor Price
Nina
Sons and Lovers
Baxter Dawes
Greyhawk
Howard
Occupations
Antonio Gramsci
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Phil Parish - Director
Van Gogh
Paul Gaugin
Clapperclaw
Writing
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
The Object of Beauty
Marty Slaughter
Lights and Shadows
Teo
In Lambeth
Writing
The Hospice
Maybury
Something to Hide
Joe Pepper
Two Days That Shook the Branch
Des Hardy
All About George
Gordon
The Unborn
Colin
Hope In The Year Two
Prisoner
Roll On Four O'Clock
Jack Youngman
Crimestrike
Director of Public Prosecutions
Misterioso
Paul Webster
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
H1B
Through the Night
Dr Pearce
A Pint of Plain
The Actual Woman
Writing
A Room for the Winter
James van Stanten
The Act
Johann Frink
The Ballad of Ben Bagot
Willy Lit
Blue Black Permanent
Philip Lomax
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Wallace Pidgeon