Jack Shepherd
Date of birth: 1940-10-29
Place of birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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.
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The Golden Compass
2007-12-04
In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades
God on Trial
2008-09-03
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Tria
Wonderland
1999-05-13
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. T
Sons and Lovers
1981-01-14
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
Into the Storm
2009-05-31
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided hi
Man and Boy
2002-03-30
When television executive Harry has a one-night-stand, his wife Gina walks out on him, leaving Harry
Trust Me
1992-10-25
Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the
All Neat in Black Stockings
1969-04-10
A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002-04-16
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix
The Unborn
1980-05-15
A physicist has apocalyptic visions of his unborn baby.
The Other Boleyn Girl
2003-03-28
Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised acc
Blue Black Permanent
1992-01-01
In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic
Twenty-one
1991-10-04
Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on t
Body Contact
1987-12-06
In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beaut
The Virgin Soldiers
1969-10-14
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named
Hope In The Year Two
1994-05-11
In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awa
A Woman at War
1991-08-10
Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer thro
A Dad for Christmas
2006-12-03
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend p
Count Dracula
1977-12-22
Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. H
A Cock and Bull Story
2005-07-17
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the epo
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989-11-25
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
1976-01-11
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a televis
Escape from Sobibor
1987-04-12
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates a
Nina
1978-10-17
Play for Today about Russian dissidents.
All Good Men
1974-01-31
On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls
Occupations
1974-09-01
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of t
Blue Ice
1992-10-09
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a
Greyhawk
2014-06-28
A reclusive, disillusioned Army veteran is prompted into action when his only friend goes missing on
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989-12-27
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R &
Shoot to Kill
1990-06-03
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86
Lights and Shadows
1988-09-02
This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy ente
No Escape
1994-04-29
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesom
Lorna Doone
2001-03-11
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Cath
Two Days That Shook the Branch
1978-05-09
Des, an enthusiastic incompetent, always promises rather more that he can deliver.
The Act
1989-08-09
Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are
Misterioso
1991-07-25
On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989-04-22
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Co
The Big Man
1990-08-31
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
A Pint of Plain
1975-01-01
'A Pint of Plain' was filmed on location in and around Shepherd's Bush, here in West London. Because
Through the Night
1975-12-02
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles t
The Bed Sitting Room
1969-06-01
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing s
Charlotte Gray
2001-12-28
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the
The Object of Beauty
1991-04-12
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a
The Only Boy for Me
2006-09-06
Annie, a single mother who is devoted to her son Charlie, starts a relationship with Mack. The probl
Tales from Hollywood
1992-10-18
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave the
The Ballad of Ben Bagot
1973-11-08
Ben Bagot is 17; bright, charming and attractive, but he has difficulty setting his sights on realit
The Hospice
1987-01-01
When he loses his way on a country road and is bitten by an animal, Maybury stumbles across a strang
Something to Hide
1972-01-01
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhike
The Martins
2001-09-14
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accid
The Scarlet Tunic
1998-06-12
Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cava
Roll On Four O'Clock
1970-12-19
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectati
Scoop
1987-04-26
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical no
Greed
2019-09-07
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island o
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
1974-03-28
Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds hims
A Room for the Winter
1981-11-03
James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has esca
Hard Travelling
1986-03-30
Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden and violent death. She escapes
Crimestrike
1990-10-01
What would happen if the nation’s criminals decided to go on strike? A comedy drama based on an idea
The Angry Earth
1989-01-01
About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen
The Party
1988-03-08
10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978-01-18
Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at
Boudica
2003-10-12
The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Boudica is one of history’s first and fiercest women wa
All About George
2005-10-29
All About George is a British family sitcom which follows the extended family of George Kinsey. The