
Jack Shepherd
Known for: Acting
Born: October 29, 1940
Died: November 24, 2025
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

The Unborn
1980

Hope In The Year Two
1994

Nina
1978
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989

Shoot to Kill
1990
Two Days That Shook the Branch
1978

The Act
1989

Misterioso
1991

The Hospice
1987

Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
1974
A Room for the Winter
1981
Crimestrike
1990

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978

Blue Black Permanent
1992

Twenty-One
1991

Occupations
1974
Lights and Shadows
1988

Through the Night
1975

The Party
1988

All Neat in Black Stockings
1969

A Woman at War
1991

A Dad for Christmas
2006
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
1976

All Good Men
1974

Greyhawk
2014

Van Gogh
1990

The Virgin Soldiers
1969
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989
The Only Boy for Me
2006

The Ballad of Ben Bagot
1973

The Scarlet Tunic
1998

Trust Me
1992

Count Dracula
1977

Escape from Sobibor
1987

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989

All About George
2005

The Other Boleyn Girl
2003

Body Contact
1987

Blue Ice
1992

Sons and Lovers
1981

Tales from Hollywood
1992

Wonderland
1999

Man and Boy
2002

No Escape
1994

A Pint of Plain
1975

Hard Travelling
1986

The Angry Earth
1989

The Object of Beauty
1991

Something to Hide
1972

Roll On Four O'Clock
1970

Into the Storm
2009

Lorna Doone
2001

A Cock and Bull Story
2005

The Martins
2001

Boudica
2003

Scoop
1987

Charlotte Gray
2001

God on Trial
2008

The Bed Sitting Room
1969

The Golden Compass
2007

The Big Man
1990

Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002

Greed
2019

Wycliffe
1994

The Chase
2006

Silent Witness
1996

Between the Lines
1992

Shoot to Kill
1990

High Stakes
2001

Bill Brand
1976

Count Dracula
1977

All About George
2005

Lovejoy
1986

Moving On
2009
London
2004

The Jury
2002

The Politician's Husband
2013

The Mysteries
1985

Fixer
2008

Play for Today
1970

Waking the Dead
2001

Midsomer Murders
1997

Fearless
2017

Rebellion
2016

The Nativity
2010

Lorna Doone
2000

Calling the Shots
1994

The Girls of Slender Means
1975
World in Ferment
1969

Budgie
1971

Omnibus
1967

Playhouse
1974

Performance
1991

BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Full House
1972

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973

Scorpion Tales
1978

Churchill's People
1974

Thorne
2010

ITV Playhouse
1967

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969

The Play on One
1988

Red Letter Day
1976

ScreenPlay
1986

Screen One
1989

Screen Two
1985
Plays of Today
1969
Second City Firsts
1973
Trapped
1967

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965