Cast & creator
Jack Shepherd
Best known for Midsomer Murders, Silent Witness, Play for Today
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.
65
film credits
61
television credits
120
1965–2019 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (126)
Showing 126 of 126 credits
Midsomer Murders
Magnus Soane
1997
Silent Witness
1996
Play for Today
William Waite
1970Play for Today
Wallace Pidgeon
1970
American Playhouse
Bertolt Brecht
1982
Screen Two
Harry
1985Screen Two
Prisoner
1985
ITV Playhouse
Tommy Smith
1967ITV Playhouse
Des Hardy
1967
Waking the Dead
Ralph Palmer
2001
Playhouse
Colin Brent
1974Playhouse
Writer
1974
Omnibus
Self
1967Omnibus
Gaughin
1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
'Wing Nut' Williams
1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Jack Youngman
1969
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
David Belcito
1973
ScreenPlay
Johann Frink
1986
Performance
Bertolt Brecht
1991
Wycliffe
Detective Superintendent Wycliffe
1994Wycliffe
Director
1994
Lovejoy
Jamie
1986
Screen One
Blake
1989
The Play on One
Malcolm Sloman
1988The Play on One
Paul
1988
BBC2 Play of the Week
H1B
1977
The Golden Compass
Master
2007
Moving On
Charlie
2009
Churchill's People
Cornet Henry Denne
1974
Between the Lines
1992
Budgie
PC Donnelly
1971Budgie
Det. Constable Leadbetter
1971Second City Firsts
Gordon
1973Second City Firsts
Writer
1973
Thorne
Jim Thorne
2010
The Jury
Ron Maher
2002
Bill Brand
Bill Brand
1976
The Chase
2006Full House
Actor in Sketches
1972
Rebellion
General William Lowe
2016
The Politician's Husband
Joe Hoynes
2013
The Fixer
2008
Count Dracula
Renfield
19774 Play
Mr. Allsop
1989
Fearless
Arthur Banville
2017
No Escape
Dysart
1994Trapped
Webber
1967
All About George
2005All About George
Gordon
2005
A Cock and Bull Story
Surgeon
2005
Scorpion Tales
Mark Hawkins
1978Blind Justice
Frank Cartwright
1988
Escape from Sobibor
Itzhak Lichtman
1987
Lorna Doone
Reuben Huckaback
2000
Greed
Eric Weeks
2019Tickets for the Titanic
Rev David Williams
1987London
Thomas de Quincey
2004Plays of Today
Weaver
1969
The Other Boleyn Girl
Thomas Boleyn
2003
The Nativity
Melchior
2010
Charlotte Gray
Pichon
2001
The Girls of Slender Means
Rudi Bittesch
1975
Red Letter Day
Phil Parish - Director
1976
Blue Ice
Stevens
1992
The Mysteries
Lucifer / Judas / Satan
1985
Into the Storm
Neville Chamberlain
2009
The Object of Beauty
Marty Slaughter
1991
The Bed Sitting Room
Underwater Vicar
1969
Wonderland
Bill
1999
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
2002
The Big Man
Referee
1990
Twenty-One
Kenneth
1991
Calling the Shots
Nick
1994
God on Trial
Kuhn
2008
Count Dracula
Renfield
1977
High Stakes
2001
Van Gogh
Paul Gaugin
1990
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Brodi
1989
Boudica
Claudius
2003
Lorna Doone
Reuben Huckaback
2001
A Dad for Christmas
Bert
2006
A Woman at War
Tobias Moszkiewiez
1991
All Neat in Black Stockings
Dwyer
1969
Occupations
Antonio Gramsci
1974
Shoot to Kill
DCC John Stalker
1990
The Act
Johann Frink
1989
Nina
1978
Scoop
Corker
1987
A Pint of Plain
1975
Man and Boy
Paddy Silver
2002World in Ferment
Doug Searchbaker
1969
The Party
Malcolm Sloman
1988
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
H1B
1978Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1989Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Phil Parish - Director
1976
Roll On Four O'Clock
Jack Youngman
1970Two Days That Shook the Branch
Des Hardy
1978
Tales from Hollywood
Bertolt Brecht
1992
The Hospice
Maybury
1987Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Joe Marriot
1989The Only Boy for Me
Grandpa
2006
The Martins
DI Tony Branch
2001
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Wallace Pidgeon
1974
Sons and Lovers
Baxter Dawes
1981
Trust Me
Blake
1992
The Virgin Soldiers
Sgt Wellbeloved
1969
Body Contact
Dickie Finn
1987
Through the Night
Dr Pearce
1975
Clapperclaw
Writer
1981Shoot to Kill
DCC John Stalker
1990
In Lambeth
Writer
1993
Hard Travelling
Harry
1986
The Angry Earth
Doctor Price
1989A Room for the Winter
James van Stanten
1981
The Ballad of Ben Bagot
Willy Lit
1973
Lights and Shadows
Teo
1988
Hope in the Year Two
Prisoner
1994
All Good Men
1974Crimestrike
Director of Public Prosecutions
1990
Something to Hide
Joe Pepper
1973
Blue Black Permanent
Philip Lomax
1992
Greyhawk
Howard
2014
The Unborn
Colin
1980
Misterioso
Paul Webster
1991
The Scarlet Tunic
Dr. Edward Grove
1998
The Actual Woman
Writer
1974