Jack Shepherd
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 29, 1940
- Died
- Nov 24, 2025 (aged 85)
- Place of birth
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 113
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
2019Movie
Eric Weeks
Fearless
2017TV
Arthur Banville
Rebellion
2016TV
General William Lowe
Greyhawk
2014Movie
Howard
The Politician's Husband
2013TV
Joe Hoynes
The Nativity
2010TV
Melchior
Thorne
2010TV
Jim Thorne
Into the Storm
2009Movie
Neville Chamberlain
Moving On
2009TV
Charlie
God on Trial
2008Movie
Kuhn
The Fixer
2008TV
The Golden Compass
2007Movie
Master
A Dad for Christmas
2006Movie
Bert
The Only Boy for Me
2006Movie
Grandpa
The Chase
2006TV
All About George
2005TV
Gordon
A Cock and Bull Story
2005Movie
Surgeon
London
2004TV
Thomas de Quincey
Boudica
2003Movie
Claudius
The Other Boleyn Girl
2003Movie
Thomas Boleyn
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002Movie
Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
Man and Boy
2002Movie
Paddy Silver
The Jury
2002TV
Ron Maher
Charlotte Gray
2001Movie
Pichon
The Martins
2001Movie
DI Tony Branch
Waking the Dead
2001TV
Ralph Palmer
High Stakes
2001TV
Lorna Doone
2001Movie
Reuben Huckaback
Lorna Doone
2000TV
Reuben Huckaback
Wonderland
1999Movie
Bill
The Scarlet Tunic
1998Movie
Dr. Edward Grove
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Magnus Soane
Silent Witness
1996TV
Wycliffe
1994TV
Detective Superintendent Wycliffe
Hope in the Year Two
1994Movie
Prisoner
No Escape
1994Movie
Dysart
Calling the Shots
1994TV
Nick
Trust Me
1992Movie
Blake
Tales from Hollywood
1992Movie
Bertolt Brecht
Blue Ice
1992Movie
Stevens
Between the Lines
1992TV
Blue Black Permanent
1992Movie
Philip Lomax
Performance
1991TV
Bertolt Brecht
Twenty-One
1991Movie
Kenneth
A Woman at War
1991Movie
Tobias Moszkiewiez
Misterioso
1991Movie
Paul Webster
The Object of Beauty
1991Movie
Marty Slaughter
Crimestrike
1990Movie
Director of Public Prosecutions
The Big Man
1990Movie
Referee
Van Gogh
1990Movie
Paul Gaugin
Shoot to Kill
1990Movie
DCC John Stalker
Shoot to Kill
1990TV
DCC John Stalker
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989Movie
Joe Marriot
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989Movie
4 Play
1989TV
Mr. Allsop
Screen One
1989TV
Blake
The Act
1989Movie
Johann Frink
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989Movie
Brodi
The Angry Earth
1989Movie
Doctor Price
Blind Justice
1988TV
Frank Cartwright
Lights and Shadows
1988Movie
Teo
The Party
1988Movie
Malcolm Sloman
The Play on One
1988TV
Malcolm Sloman, Paul
Body Contact
1987Movie
Dickie Finn
Scoop
1987Movie
Corker
Escape from Sobibor
1987Movie
Itzhak Lichtman
Tickets for the Titanic
1987TV
Rev David Williams
The Hospice
1987Movie
Maybury
ScreenPlay
1986TV
Johann Frink
Hard Travelling
1986Movie
Harry
Lovejoy
1986TV
Jamie
The Mysteries
1985TV
Lucifer / Judas / Satan
Screen Two
1985TV
Harry, Prisoner
American Playhouse
1982TV
Bertolt Brecht
A Room for the Winter
1981Movie
James van Stanten
Sons and Lovers
1981Movie
Baxter Dawes
The Unborn
1980Movie
Colin
Nina
1978Movie
Two Days That Shook the Branch
1978Movie
Des Hardy
Scorpion Tales
1978TV
Mark Hawkins
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978Movie
H1B
Count Dracula
1977Movie
Renfield
Count Dracula
1977TV
Renfield
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977TV
H1B
Bill Brand
1976TV
Bill Brand
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
1976Movie
Phil Parish - Director
Red Letter Day
1976TV
Phil Parish - Director
Through the Night
1975Movie
Dr Pearce
The Girls of Slender Means
1975TV
Rudi Bittesch
A Pint of Plain
1975Movie
Churchill's People
1974TV
Cornet Henry Denne
Occupations
1974Movie
Antonio Gramsci
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
1974Movie
Wallace Pidgeon
Playhouse
1974TV
Colin Brent
All Good Men
1974Movie
The Ballad of Ben Bagot
1973Movie
Willy Lit
Second City Firsts
1973TV
Gordon
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973TV
David Belcito
Something to Hide
1973Movie
Joe Pepper
Full House
1972TV
Actor in Sketches
Budgie
1971TV
PC Donnelly, Det. Constable Leadbetter
Roll On Four O'Clock
1970Movie
Jack Youngman
Play for Today
1970TV
William Waite, Wallace Pidgeon
The Virgin Soldiers
1969Movie
Sgt Wellbeloved
Plays of Today
1969TV
Weaver
World in Ferment
1969TV
Doug Searchbaker
The Bed Sitting Room
1969Movie
Underwater Vicar
All Neat in Black Stockings
1969Movie
Dwyer
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969TV
Jack Youngman
Omnibus
1967TV
Self, Gaughin
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Tommy Smith, Des Hardy
Trapped
1967TV
Webber
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
'Wing Nut' Williams