Jack Shepherd

Born: 1940-10-29, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

Died: 2025-11-24

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.

Filmography

• Midsomer Murders (1997)
• Silent Witness (1996)
• Omnibus (1967)
• Screen Two (1985)
• Waking the Dead (2001)
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969)
• Playhouse (1974)
• Moving On (2009)
• Wycliffe (1994)
• Wycliffe (1994)
• Between the Lines (1992)
• ScreenPlay (1986)
• The Jury (2002)
• Lovejoy (1986)
• The Golden Compass (2007)
• Screen One (1989)
• Churchill's People (1974)
• Thorne (2010)
• Budgie (1971)
• The Play on One (1988)
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973)
• Escape from Sobibor (1987)
• The Fixer (2008)
• Blue Ice (1992)
• A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
• The Big Man (1990)
• Charlotte Gray (2001)
• Scorpion Tales (1978)
• Count Dracula (1977)