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Elizabeth Shepherd is a Actor British born on 12 august 1936 at London (United-kingdom)

Elizabeth Shepherd

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 12 august 1936 (87 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Elizabeth Shepherd (born 12 August 1936) is an English character actress whose long career has encompassed the stage and both the big and small screens. Her television work has been especially prolific. Shepherd's surname has been variously rendered as "Shephard" and "Sheppard".

She began acting in television series in 1959. In 1960, she appeared in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel. She was the original choice to play Emma Peel in the 1960s television series The Avengers. However, after filming nearly two episodes, Shepherd left the production and was replaced by Diana Rigg. In 1970 she appeared on Broadway in Barry England's Conduct Unbecoming, a story of the British Army in Kipling's India, as Mrs. Hasseltine. She was praised for her performance in Time magazine. Shepherd was pictured in Time along with her co-stars, the pop singers Jeremy Clyde and Paul Jones, who began their roles as British subalterns in London during 1969.

In film she appeared as Lady Rowena in Roger Corman's The Tomb of Ligeia (1965), as well as Hell Boats (1970), Damien: Omen II (1978) as the ill-fated reporter Joan Hart, The Kidnapping of the President (1980), Deadly Companion (1980), Invitation to the Wedding (1983), Head Office (1983), Criminal Law (1988), The White Raven (1998), Desire (2000) and Amelia (2009). Her TV work includes the cult series The Corridor People (1966), the miniseries The Bastard (1978), and The Cleopatras (1983), a BBC historical drama.

Elizabeth Shepherd has acted in numerous stage plays in both Shakespearean and contemporary dramas. As well as teaching drama at the Stella Adler school, she starred in "December Fools" in 2006 at the Abingdon Theater in New York. In 2014, she starred in a Canadian production of Driving Miss Daisy.

An article in the Toronto Star reported an incident of Shepherd being a victim of identity theft and mortgage fraud in 2006.

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Filmography of Elizabeth Shepherd (19 films)

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Amelia
Amelia (2009)
, 1h51
Directed by Mira Nair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Aaron Abrams, Christopher Eccleston, Virginia Madsen
Roles Frances Putnam
Rating57% 2.898672.898672.898672.898672.89867
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) and her navigator, Fred Noonan (Christopher Eccleston), are on the last leg of an around-the-world flight. Moving in vignettes from her early years when Earhart was captivated by the sight of an aircraft flying overhead on the Kansas prairie where she grew up, her life over the preceding decade gradually unfolds. As a young woman, she is recruited by publishing tycoon and eventual husband, George Putnam (Richard Gere) to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean, albeit as a passenger. Taking command of the flight results in a success and she is thrust into the limelight as the most famous woman pilot of her time. Putnam helps Earhart write a book chronicling the flight, much like his earlier triumph with Charles Lindbergh's We. Earhart gradually falls in love with Putnam and they eventually marry, although she enacts a "cruel" pledge as her wedding contract.
Desire
Desire (2000)
, 1h37
Directed by Colleen Murphy
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Katja Riemann, Zachary Bennett, Elizabeth Shepherd, Alberta Watson, Graham Greene, Martin Donovan
Roles Mrs. Waterson
Rating59% 2.9887052.9887052.9887052.9887052.988705
The film stars Zachary Bennett as Francis Waterson, an aspiring concert pianist, and Katja Riemann as Halley Fischer, an elementary school teacher with whom Francis enters a romantic relationship.
The White Raven, 1h32
Directed by Andrew Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Ron Silver, Agnieszka Wagner, Joanna Pacuła, Roy Scheider, Jan Rubes, Hannes Jaenicke
Roles Hannah Rothschild
Rating44% 2.2221652.2221652.2221652.2221652.222165
Le journaliste Tully Winsor enquête sur le Diamant Blanc, le plus gros diamant du monde. Il est sur le point de découvrir un secret qui n'aurait jamais dû être révélé. Il s'engage alors dans une course contre la monde autour du monde, où derrière chaque vérité se cache un mensonge, derrière chaque ami se dissimule un ennemi, et où la confiance ne peut exister
End of Summer
Directed by Linda Yellen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Peter Weller, Julian Sands, Amy Locane, Elizabeth Shepherd, Michael Hogan
Roles Vera
Rating51% 2.5739352.5739352.5739352.5739352.573935
Christine (Bisset) is a wealthy aristocrat in 1890s New York. She is a spinster that unexpectedly gets another shot at love, although the opportunity is threatened by her false pride and puritanical social views.
Mustard Bath, 1h50
Directed by Darrell Wasyk
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Riley, Martha Henry, Tantoo Cardinal, Elizabeth Shepherd
Roles Matthew's Mom
Rating60% 3.047743.047743.047743.047743.04774
Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on receiving a letter from his mother three months after her death. Prompted by his surroundings to sort through the idealized memories of his childhood, Matthew reaches the horrifying realization that he has returned to a world which he was never a part of. Contemporary Guyanese reality highlights the white colonialist privilege his family had enjoyed.
Criminal Law, 1h57
Directed by Martin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Joe Don Baker, Karen Young, Sean McCann
Roles Dr. Thiel
Rating55% 2.799962.799962.799962.799962.79996
Attorney Ben Chase successfully defends Martin Thiel, a wealthy, young playboy, getting him acquitted of a series of brutal murders — only to find out later that Thiel is indeed a serial killer. Since Thiel cannot be tried again for his crimes, Chase tries to get him to incriminate himself before he can kill again.
Head Office, 1h30
Directed by Ken Finkleman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Richard Masur, Merritt Butrick, Michael O'Donoghue, Jane Seymour
Roles Mrs. Issel
Rating54% 2.70212.70212.70212.70212.7021
Jack Issel (Judge Reinhold) is a natural-born slacker who has just graduated from business school and joined I.N.C., a large American corporation based in Chicago. On his trip up the corporate ladder, he sees the dirty underside of the corporate world and how it corrupts people. His two mentors, the stuffy and buttoned up chief financial officer Scott Dantley (Michael O'Donoghue) and the chief operating officer Bob Nixon (Ron Frazier), in fact, show him first-hand how to cheat and blackmail one's way to the top. Jack is further aided by his personnel officer Max Landsberger (Richard Masur) who tells Jack that money and power come before people in the corporate world. Jack's supervisor and the public relations vice president, Jane Caldwell (Jane Seymour), also tells Jack exactly the same thing as Jack learns that Jane is a shady vixen who's hell-bent on sleeping her way to the top by seducing every man she meets to get ahead in what she sees as a man's world.
Double Negative, 1h36
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller
Actors John Candy, Anthony Perkins, Eugene Levy, Michael Ironside, Susan Clark, Howard Duff
Roles Frances
Rating41% 2.0636152.0636152.0636152.0636152.063615
Michael Taylor, played by Michael Sarrazin, is tormented by his sheer lack of memory concerning the night his wife was found brutally killed. Michael's girlfriend helps him attempt to make sense of it all. Anthony Perkins plays a blackmailer, John Candy has a supporting role as 'John'.
The Kidnapping of the President, 1h54
Directed by George Mendeluk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Shepherd, Michael J. Reynolds
Roles Joan Scott
Rating54% 2.7046552.7046552.7046552.7046552.704655
During a diplomatic visit to Toronto, the U.S. President Adam Scott (Hal Holbrook) is abducted by a South American terrorist, Roberto Assanti (Miguel Fernandes), and his female accomplice, and is held captive in an armored truck booby-trapped with high explosives. The elaborate bomb keeps the Secret Service at bay until Assanti is killed. However, the explosives are timed to detonate at midnight, so Secret Service agent Jerry O'Connor (Shatner) has to find a way into the truck to rescue the President before it detonates. Also involved are U.S Vice-President Ethan Richards (Johnson) and his wife Beth (Gardner).
Damien: Omen II, 1h47
Directed by Don Taylor, Mike Hodges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Nicholas Pryor, Lew Ayres, Sylvia Sidney
Roles Joan Hart
Rating62% 3.1026053.1026053.1026053.1026053.102605
A week after the burial of Robert and Katherine Thorn, archeologist Carl Bugenhagen (Leo McKern) learns of the survival of their adopted son Damien. Confiding to his friend Michael Morgan (Ian Hendry) that Damien is the Antichrist, Bugenhagen attempts to convince him to give Damien's guardian a box containing the means to kill Damien. As Morgan is unconvinced, Bugenhagen takes him to some local ruins to see the mural of Yigael's Wall, which was said to have been drawn by one who saw the Devil and had visions of the Antichrist as he would appear from birth to death. Though Morgan believes him upon seeing an ancient depiction of the Antichrist with Damien's face, both he and Bugenhagen are buried alive as the tunnel collapses on them.
The Bastard, 4h
Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Andrew Stevens, Tom Bosley, Kim Cattrall, Buddy Ebsen, Lorne Greene, Olivia Hussey
Roles Emma Sholto
Rating67% 3.3970953.3970953.3970953.3970953.397095
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution.
Hell Boats
Hell Boats (1970)
, 1h35
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors James Franciscus, Elizabeth Shepherd, Ronald Allen, Drewe Henley, Philip Madoc, Seán Barrett
Roles Alison
Rating55% 2.795762.795762.795762.795762.79576
In 1941 Lieutenant Commander Jeffords, an American serving with the Royal Navy is assigned to Valletta, Malta to command a flotilla of Motor Torpedo Boats for a top secret mission. Jeffords is granted permission to take his friend Chief Petty Officer Yacov, an Israeli/Palestinian with him.