Jack Shepherd

Known for: Acting
Born: October 29, 1940, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died: November 24, 2025
Movies: 65

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.1

The Golden Compass

2007

6.2

No Escape

1994

7.2

Escape from Sobibor

1987

6.1

Charlotte Gray

2001

5.6

Greed

2019

6.2

A Cock and Bull Story

2005

6.4

Into the Storm

2009

6.8

God on Trial

2008

7.1

The Other Boleyn Girl

2003

5.9

The Bed Sitting Room

1969

Filmography

2019	Greed	Eric Weeks
2014	Greyhawk	Howard
2009	Into the Storm	Neville Chamberlain
2008	God on Trial	Kuhn
2007	The Golden Compass	Master
2006	A Dad for Christmas	Bert
2006	The Only Boy for Me	Grandpa
2005	A Cock and Bull Story	Surgeon
2003	Boudica	Claudius
2003	The Other Boleyn Girl	Thomas Boleyn
2002	Ultimate Fights from the Movies	Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
2002	Man and Boy	Paddy Silver
2001	Charlotte Gray	Pichon
2001	The Martins	DI Tony Branch
2001	Lorna Doone	Reuben Huckaback
1999	Wonderland	Bill
1998	The Scarlet Tunic	Dr. Edward Grove
1994	Hope in the Year Two	Prisoner
1994	No Escape	Dysart
1992	Trust Me	Blake
1992	Tales from Hollywood	Bertolt Brecht
1992	Blue Ice	Stevens
1992	Blue Black Permanent	Philip Lomax
1991	Twenty-One	Kenneth
1991	A Woman at War	Tobias Moszkiewiez
1991	Misterioso	Paul Webster
1991	The Object of Beauty	Marty Slaughter
1990	Crimestrike	Director of Public Prosecutions
1990	The Big Man	Referee
1990	Van Gogh	Paul Gaugin
1990	Shoot to Kill	DCC John Stalker
1989	Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage	Joe Marriot
1989	Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989	The Act	Johann Frink
1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Brodi
1989	The Angry Earth	Doctor Price
1988	Lights and Shadows	Teo
1988	The Party	Malcolm Sloman
1987	Body Contact	Dickie Finn
1987	Scoop	Corker
1987	Escape from Sobibor	Itzhak Lichtman
1987	The Hospice	Maybury
1986	Hard Travelling	Harry
1981	A Room for the Winter	James van Stanten
1981	Sons and Lovers	Baxter Dawes
1980	The Unborn	Colin
1978	Nina
1978	Two Days That Shook the Branch	Des Hardy
1978	Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat	H1B
1977	Count Dracula	Renfield
1976	Ready When You Are, Mr McGill	Phil Parish - Director
1975	Through the Night	Dr Pearce
1975	A Pint of Plain
1974	Occupations	Antonio Gramsci
1974	Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?	Wallace Pidgeon
1974	All Good Men
1973	The Ballad of Ben Bagot	Willy Lit
1973	Something to Hide	Joe Pepper
1970	Roll On Four O'Clock	Jack Youngman
1969	The Virgin Soldiers	Sgt Wellbeloved
1969	The Bed Sitting Room	Underwater Vicar
1969	All Neat in Black Stockings	Dwyer

Directing, Writing & Producing

1993	In Lambeth	Writer
1981	Clapperclaw	Writer
1974	The Actual Woman	Writer

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