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Jack Shepherd is a Actor British born on 29 october 1940 at Leeds (United-kingdom)

Jack Shepherd

Jack Shepherd
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Birth 29 october 1940 (83 years) at Leeds (United-kingdom)

Jack Shepherd (born 29 October 1940) is 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.

Biography

Early life
Shepherd attended Roundhay School in Leeds and then studied fine art at Kings College, Newcastle. During his time in Newcastle he was an amateur actor with the People's Theatre. After gaining a BA he went on to study acting, first at the Central School of Speech and Drama and then as a student founder of the Drama Centre London.


Career
He worked at the Royal Court Theatre from 1965 to 1969, making his first appearance on the London stage as an Officer of Dragoons in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. In July 1967 he played Arnold Middleton in David Storey's The Restoration of Arnold Middleton, which transferred to the Criterion Theatre, a performance for which he received the Plays and Players London Critics' Award as most promising actor of the year.

During the 1970s he appeared in many television dramas, including occasional appearances in the series Budgie. Shepherd took the title role in Trevor Griffiths's Thames TV series Bill Brand (1976) as a radical Labour MP. In the same year he also played a television director struggling to maintain his composure during a doomed location shoot in Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, both performances gaining 1976 RTS Awards. He appeared as Renfield in Count Dracula (1977), with Louis Jourdan in the title role.

Shepherd also spent the decade running a drama studio in Kentish Town, north London along with fellow actor Richard Wilson, and during that time became interested in playwriting. He devised several plays for the theatre including The Sleep of Reason, Real Time, Clapperclaw and Half Moon.

In 1972 he was a founding member, along with Ian McKellen and Edward Petherbridge, of the democratically run Actors' Company, playing Vasques in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Inspector of Police in Ruling the Roost (Edinburgh Festival and tour) and Okano in The Three Arrows at the Arts, Cambridge in October 1972. In December 1972 he played Ben in Let's Murder Vivaldi at The King's Head Theatre, and in January 1973 took the title role in Dracula at the Bush Theatre, also collaborating in the writing.

From 1977 to 1985 he was a member of Bill Bryden's Cottesloe Theatre Company at the National Theatre, playing Teach in American Buffalo, Judas in The Passion, Boamer in Lark Rise, Thomas Clarkeson in The World Turned Upside Down, Smitty in The Long Voyage Home, The Correspondent in Dispatches and Hickey in The Iceman Cometh. Shepherd originated the stage role of Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross at the Cottesloe in 1983, for which he received a Society of West End Theatre award (later known as the Laurence Olivier Awards) as Actor of the Year in a New Play.

His first written work for the stage was In Lambeth, an imaginary conversation about revolution between the poet and artist William Blake, his wife Catherine and Thomas Paine, author of The Rights of Man. He first directed it at the Partisan Theatre in July 1989 before its transfer to the Donmar Warehouse, winning the 1989 Time Out Awards for Best Directing and Best Writing.

Shepherd's work in television increased during the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in his acclaimed role as the eponymous Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe in the HTV television series Wycliffe from 1993 to 1998. As a theatre director he has staged several productions at the Shakespeare's Globe, including his lively 'Prologue Production' of The Two Gentlemen of Verona starring Mark Rylance as Proteus, which opened the Globe to the theatregoing public in August 1996, a year before the formal opening Gala. In 1998 at the Globe he played a sad Antonio in Richard Olivier's production of The Merchant of Venice.

Shepherd's epic drama about the Chartist movement, Holding Fire! was commissioned by the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as part of its Renaissance and Revolution season, and was first staged there by Mark Rosenblatt in August 2007.

He played the part of the Father in Rupert Goold's production of Six Characters in Search of an Author in 2009, the Doctor in The Master Builder at the Almeida, and Melchior, one of the Magi, in the four-part TV drama The Nativity, broadcast on BBC One in December 2010.


Politics
Shepherd was involved with the Socialist Labour League and its successor, the Workers Revolutionary Party, in the 1960s and 1970s. In a 2012 interview with the World Socialist Web Site he referred to putting "the dialectic at the heart of the play", but expressed ambivalence towards revolutionary politics today.

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Filmography of Jack Shepherd (27 films)

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Greed
Greed (2019)

Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, David Mitchell, Asa Butterfield, Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson
Roles Eric Weeks
Rating57% 2.899252.899252.899252.899252.89925
Une satire sur un homme avide d'argent et sa femme, qui est la seule personne capable de le comprendre.
Into the Storm, 1h40
Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Brendan Gleeson, Iain Glen, Janet McTeer, James D'Arcy, Patrick Malahide, Robert Pugh
Roles Neville Chamberlain
Rating69% 3.4956153.4956153.4956153.4956153.495615
The Second World War has recently ended in Europe, and the people of the United Kingdom are awaiting the results of the 1945 general election. During this time, Winston Churchill goes to France for a holiday with his wife Clemmie. Through a series of flashbacks, Churchill recalls some of his most glorious moments during the war, and the effect it had on their marriage.
The Golden Compass, 1h53
Directed by Chris Weitz, Gábor Csupó
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Steampunk films, Children's films
Actors Nicole Kidman, Sam Elliott, Freddie Highmore, Eva Green, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig
Roles Master
Rating60% 3.0495553.0495553.0495553.0495553.049555
At the beginning of the film, we learn that the story takes place in one of many alternate worlds, in which a person's soul is contained within an animal companion called a dæmon (pronounced demon). The Magisterium, represented as a unified religious power, exercises power in the secular world. Lyra Belacqua, an orphan that resides in Jordan College, in a city that resembles Oxford, with her dæmon Pantalaimon (Pan), accidentally witnesses a Magisterium member poison her uncle's bottle of Tokay. Lyra then warns her uncle, Lord Asriel, who instructs her to remain in hiding. Lyra watches Asriel give a presentation regarding Dust, a particle that the Magisterium has forbidden the mention of. The college gives Asriel a grant to fund a northern expedition.
A Cock and Bull Story, 1h34
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Films about films
Actors Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Stephen Fry
Roles Surgeon
Rating66% 3.347373.347373.347373.347373.34737
A Cock and Bull Story depicts Steve Coogan playing himself as an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life. Coogan is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's, calling himself the "co-lead".
Boudica
Boudica (2003)
, 1h38
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Alex Kingston, Steven Waddington, Emily Blunt, Leanne Rowe, Hugo Speer, Gary Lewis
Roles Claudius
Rating53% 2.6528752.6528752.6528752.6528752.652875
Boudica, the Warrior Queen on Britain, leads her tribe into rebellion against the Roman Empire and the mad Emperor of Rome Nero.
The Other Boleyn Girl, 1h30
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Natascha McElhone, Jodhi May, Jared Harris, Steven Mackintosh, Philip Glenister, Jack Shepherd
Roles Thomas Boleyn
Rating61% 3.069253.069253.069253.069253.06925
The tale follows the history of Mary Boleyn (Natascha McElhone), sister of Anne Boleyn (Jodhi May), second wife of Henry VIII (Jared Harris). Before his relationship with Anne, Henry favoured her sister Mary, who was by then married to her first husband, William Carey, and a lady in waiting to his wife, Queen Catherine of Aragon. Despite her objections, Mary is forced to become the king's mistress, with her husband's reluctant permission and agreement. Mary asks her husband if she's offended him, and he claims that she hasn't, although Mary despairs that William did not object to the illicit union with the king. In time, Mary confesses what she has done to God, and feel guilty whenever she serves the queen, for the queen knows about the relationship, yet says nothing. Mary soon comes to terms with being the king's mistress, however, and begins to fall in love with the king.
Charlotte Gray, 2h1
Directed by Gillian Armstrong
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Cate Blanchett, Michael Gambon, James Fleet, Billy Crudup, Abigail Cruttenden, Rupert Penry-Jones
Roles Pichon
Rating63% 3.1981553.1981553.1981553.1981553.198155
In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take a job in a surgery. On the train, a man enters her compartment and chats with her, asking questions about her life and expressing interest that she is fluent in French. He gives her his card with the date, time and address of a book launch. Social life in London is in full swing and her friends convince her to go. She soon meets RAF Flight Lieutenant Peter Gregory, but is interrupted by Richard Cannerley, the older man from the train, who urges her to meet some of his acquaintances and asks her to contact him when she leaves.
Man and Boy
Directed by Simon Curtis
Genres Drama
Actors Ioan Gruffudd, Elizabeth Mitchell, Ian McShane, Shelley Conn, Natasha Little, Ian McNeice
Roles Paddy Silver
Rating65% 3.289033.289033.289033.289033.28903
Harry a tout pour être heureux dans la vie. Marié très jeune à la superbe Gina qui lui a donné un fils, Pat, il produit avec succès un talk-show sur une chaîne de télévision londonienne. Mais à l'aube de ses trente ans, l'homme se pose bien des questions sur sa jeunesse perdue. Après une émission particulièrement ratée, il finit la nuit dans le lit de son assistante Jasmine. Un écart de conduite dont Gina a rapidement vent. Effondrée, la jeune femme quitte le domicile conjugal. A la recherche d'un emploi d'interprète, elle décide de tenter sa chance au Japon, laissant pour un temps la garde de Pat à son mari. Harry, qui vient de perdre son emploi, tente tant bien que mal de reconstruire sa vie.
The Martins, 1h27
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lee Evans, Kathy Burke, Linda Bassett, Mark Strong, Paddy Considine, Frank Finlay
Roles DI Tony Branch
Rating54% 2.7044952.7044952.7044952.7044952.704495
Out of work scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family who are long suffering wife Angie, accident prone son Little Bob who is bullied at school even by his teacher who Robert brandishes a gun at also... and pregnant teenage of 14 daughter Katie in a shabby house in Hatfield next door to the Galleria shopping centre above the A1 about 25 miles north of London. Competition addict Robert dreams of winning a holiday for his family to a dream island that turns out to be Isle Of Man and when he gets to the final few for a dream holiday but fails to win a competition in which he feels cheated out of, he flips and first goes to the editors office with a gun and steals his suit, then to an ice cream shop with his family and steals a parrot from a pet shop for Little Bob's birthday, he then tracks down the elderly winners, threatens them with a gun, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets. The police find them tied up. Upon arriving, Angie finds out Robert has cheated on her with their next door neighbour however the family enjoy the holiday. However, the Police catch up with Martin, he's convicted and goes to jail. He is later released to find his family life has improved since he was released from jail.
Wonderland
Wonderland (1999)
, 1h48
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Ian Hart, Stuart Townsend, John Simm
Roles Bill
Rating70% 3.546523.546523.546523.546523.54652
The film follows the lives of three London sisters and their family over five days, a long Guy Fawkes Night weekend in November. Waitress Nadia (McKee), "shy, with a backpack and her hair in girlish twists", spends all her time going on blind dates with rubbish men from personal ads, while her hairdresser sister Debbie (Henderson) struggles to raise her 11-year-old son without much help from his irresponsible father (Hart). Meanwhile, Molly (Parker) is pregnant but her husband Eddie (Simm) has left his job without telling her.
No Escape
No Escape (1994)
, 1h58
Directed by Martin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films, Films set in the future, Dystopian films
Actors Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Kevin J. O'Connor, Don Henderson
Roles Dysart
Rating61% 3.051333.051333.051333.051333.05133
In the year 2022, the penal system is run entirely by corporations, with prisoners seen as assets. Highly-trained ex-marine John Robbins is imprisoned for life for murdering his commanding officer, who in 2011 ordered him to kill scores of innocent men, women and children in Benghazi (Libya). The event haunts Robbins over a decade later.
Blue Ice
Blue Ice (1992)
, 1h45
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Michael Caine, Sean Young, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Patricia Hayes, Todd Boyce
Roles Stevens
Rating52% 2.604622.604622.604622.604622.60462
It is a crime thriller involving a former spy (Caine), who is a jazz-club owner, who becomes immersed again in the world of espionage and counter-intelligence.
Twenty-one
Twenty-one (1991)
, 1h32
Directed by Don Boyd
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Patsy Kensit, Jack Shepherd, Patrick Ryecart, Maynard Eziashi, Rufus Sewell, Sophie Thompson
Roles Kenneth
Rating52% 2.6123552.6123552.6123552.6123552.612355
Katie confides directly to the camera about her troubled existence. She reflects on characters we meet during the film, such as her drug-addicted boyfriend, and dysfunctional family members.