Acting
Jack Shepherd
EN, ES cinema · 65 credits
Born
29 October 1940
Died
24 November 2025 (aged 85)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
Greed
as Eric Weeks
Greyhawk
as Howard
Into the Storm
as Neville Chamberlain
God on Trial
as Kuhn
The Golden Compass
as Master
A Cock and Bull Story
as Surgeon
The Other Boleyn Girl
as Thomas Boleyn
Boudica
as Claudius
Man and Boy
as Paddy Silver
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
as Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
Lorna Doone
as Reuben Huckaback
Charlotte Gray
as Pichon
The Martins
as DI Tony Branch
Wonderland
as Bill
The Scarlet Tunic
as Dr. Edward Grove
Hope in the Year Two
as Prisoner
No Escape
as Dysart
Trust Me
as Blake
Blue Black Permanent
as Philip Lomax
Blue Ice
as Stevens
Tales from Hollywood
as Bertolt Brecht
Twenty-One
as Kenneth
A Woman at War
as Tobias Moszkiewiez
Misterioso
as Paul Webster
The Object of Beauty
as Marty Slaughter
Shoot to Kill
as DCC John Stalker
The Big Man
as Referee
Crimestrike
1990
Crimestrike
as Director of Public Prosecutions
Van Gogh
as Paul Gaugin
The Act
as Johann Frink
The Angry Earth
as Doctor Price
The Party
as Malcolm Sloman
Body Contact
as Dickie Finn
Escape from Sobibor
as Itzhak Lichtman
The Hospice
as Maybury
Scoop
as Corker
Sons and Lovers
as Baxter Dawes
A Room for the Winter
1981
A Room for the Winter
as James van Stanten
The Unborn
as Colin
Nina
Actor
Count Dracula
as Renfield
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
1976
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Phil Parish - Director
Through the Night
as Dr Pearce
Occupations
as Antonio Gramsci
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
as Wallace Pidgeon
The Ballad of Ben Bagot
as Willy Lit
Something to Hide
as Joe Pepper
Roll On Four O'Clock
as Jack Youngman
The Virgin Soldiers
as Sgt Wellbeloved
The Bed Sitting Room
as Underwater Vicar