Jack Shepherd

Jack Shepherd

Nacimiento : 1940-10-29, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

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Jack Shepherd 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.

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Jack Shepherd

Películas

Greed
Eric Weeks
La fiesta de cumpleaños número 60 de un multimillonario se celebra en un hotel exclusivo en la isla griega de Mykonos.
Greyhawk
Howard
A reclusive, disillusioned Army veteran is prompted into action when his only friend goes missing on a down-at-heel council estate.
Into The Storm (Durante la tormenta)
Neville Chamberlain
Secuela del film para televisión "The Gathering Storm" (Amenaza de tormenta).
La brújula dorada
Master
Historia de una niña de 12 años que hará un largo viaje para intentar salvar a un amigo. En el camino se encontrará con todo tipo de extrañas criaturas, brujas y otros personajes de un universo paralelo... En este singular mundo, donde las almas humanas toman la forma de compañeros del género animal, esta niña se coloca entre el fin de la libre voluntad y el inicio de una nueva era. Lyra Belacqua sólo tiene 12 años, pero incluso ella sabe que hacer lo que te dicen en lugar de hacer lo sientes está bien puede tener resultados muy diferentes. Una huérfana rebelde que vive como una reclusa en Jordan College en la ciudad de Oxford, Lyra pertenece a un mundo que es uno de muchos mundos paralelos: mundos no vistos, dimensiones intangibles donde la humanidad se desarrolla con sutiles diferencias.
Un padre perseguido
Con tan solo 19 años, Matt es un joven ilusionado con su inminente paternidad hasta que descubre que la madre de su hijo tiene la intención de entregarlo en adopción. Al no estar casado con ella, no tiene ningún derecho a a reclamar al bebé. Cuando el niño nace, siente que no puede apartarse de él y, aprovechando un descuido, huye del hospital llevándoselo consigo.
The Only Boy for Me
Grandpa
Annie, a single mother who is devoted to her son Charlie, starts a relationship with Mack. The problems start when Mack asks Annie and Charlie to move to New York with him.
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Surgeon
Tristram Shandy, un perfecto caballero inglés, se dispone a contar su vida tal y como él la ha vivido, pero el punto de vista de la narración cambia: pasa a los criados, a su madre mientras lo está pariendo, a sus padres cuando están a punto de concebirlo... Adaptación de un clásico de la literatura británica del siglo XVIII, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", de Lawrence Sterne.
Las hermanas Bolena
Thomas Boleyn
Siglo XVI. Enrique VIII (Jared Harris) está casado con Catalina de Aragón, pero no tarda en buscarse una amante; la elegida es María Bolena (Natascha McElhone), una joven de 24 años casada con un miembro de la corte. Al verse presionada por su propia familia para seguir ejerciendo de amante en contra de su propia voluntad, María comienza a apartarse de los suyos, encontrando finalmente apoyo en un joven del que quedará embarazada. La huida parece la única manera de escapar a este nuevo problema para su torturada existencia.
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
En su segunda compilación de películas tras su serie 'Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation', FlixMix te lleva a la historia de las películas de acción de Hollywood al cine de Hong Kong que abarca un período de 20 años. Esta cuenta con escenas de acción de 16 películas llenas de acción con gurús de acción, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme y muchos más.
Charlotte Gray
Pichon
En 1943, la escocesa Charlotte Gray (Blanchett) se lanza en paracaídas detrás de las líneas enemigas en la zona ocupada del sur de Francia. Ha sido reclutada por el gobierno inglés para unirse a un grupo local de la Resistencia que utiliza tácticas de guerrilla para enfrentarse al ejército alemán de ocupación. Pero lo que ella pretende es encontrar a su novio Peter (Penry-Jones), un piloto inglés, cuyo avión fue abatido. Charlotte ingresa en el comando de la Resistencia que dirige Julian Levade (Crudup) y a partir de entonces su vida empieza a cambiar.
The Martins
DI Tony Branch
Robert Martin es un británico de clase baja que está en paro y que vive con su familia disfuncional en los alrededores de Londres. Robert sueña con una vacaciones a todo lujo con los suyos, y cuando no gana un viaje en un concurso... decide atracar a los verderos ganadores, atarlos en el sótano y robarles los billetes ganadores.
Lorna Doone
Reuben Huckaback
En 1660, en Inglaterra, los protestantes se rebelan contra los católicos. Amor, guerra y luchas familiares se entremezclan en esta historia, mientras una aristocrática familia aterroriza a los habitantes de Devon.
Wonderland
Bill
Crónica de la vida de tres hermanas londinenses. Nadia busca un alma gemela a través de los anuncios de los corazones solitarios. Tampoco a Molly le van muy bien las cosas: precisamente cuando está esperando un hijo su pareja deja el trabajo y desaparece. Debbie ya tiene un hijo, pero está separada de su marido.
The Scarlet Tunic
Dr. Edward Grove
Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor (Emma Fielding) in this period tearjerker adapted from a short story by Thomas Hardy. Longing to escape their own personal imprisonments -- he, his service to the king, and she, her engagement to a man she doesn't love -- they find solace in each other's arms.
Hope In The Year Two
Prisoner
In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning appointment with La Guillotine. His accusers are so afraid of the strength of his popular support that they have imprisoned a decoy to frustrate any attempt to rescue him. A young guard must decide if his prisoner is the real Danton - and whether it is too risky to help him.
Escape de Absolom
Dysart
En el año 2022 el capitán John Robbins es conducido a Absolom, una isla selvática donde los presos más conflictivos son abandonados a su suerte. Robbins se enfrenta a una situación límite: la lucha contra una sociedad salvaje y primitiva, los presos más terribles y los demonios de su pasado. Para Robbins sólo existe una salida: escapar a toda costa de Absolom.
In Lambeth
Writer
All is peaceful in the garden of William Blake - a sanctuary from the stirrings of revolution on the streets. The arrival of an unexpected visitor, Thomas Paine , provokes an impassioned debate between the visionary artist and the political activist.
Trust Me
Blake
Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.
Tales from Hollywood
Bertolt Brecht
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.
Seducción peligrosa
Stevens
Un agente secreto británico, se ha jubilado y lleva una vida tranquila como propietario de un famoso club de jazz. Cuando conoce a la esposa de un importante diplomático norteamericano (Sean Young) y se enamora locamente de ella, la mujer aprovecha la situación para convencerlo de que localice a un antiguo amante que pretende perjudicar a su marido. Esta operación le obliga a recurrir a toda su experiencia y a sus antiguos contactos.
Blue Black Permanent
Philip Lomax
In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.
Twenty-one
Kenneth
Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.
A Woman at War
Tobias
Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine joins the underground resistance movement and strikes the Nazis from within...by joining the infamous Gestapo.
Misterioso
Paul Webster
On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.
Objeto de seducción
Marty Slaughter
Cuando una pareja acostumbrada a vivir con toda clase de lujos se arruina, se muestra incapaz de renunciar a su habitual ritmo de vida. La única solución para salir del atolladero sería vender una escultura de Henry Moore, pero la mujer no quiere desprenderse de ella en ningún caso. La situación provoca una crisis que hace que la relación de la pareja se tambalee. (FILMAFFINITY)
Crimestrike
Director of Public Prosecutions
What would happen if the nation’s criminals decided to go on strike? A comedy drama based on an idea by Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek.
El gran hombre
Referee
Danny (Liam Neeson) es un ex-boxeador escocés que, tras doce años como minero, se encuentra desempleado intentando sacar adelante a su familia. Ahora por fin le ha llegado una ocasión de oro para ganar dinero fácil: el jefe de la mafia de Glasgow, Matt Mason, ha organizado un combate clandestino, sin guantes, y le ha ofrecido mucho dinero para que pelee. Cuando la esposa de Danny conoce la noticia, le abandona por olvidar sus principios. Ya con poco que perder, el ex-púgil acepta la oferta con la idea de ganar el dinero suficiente para vivir bien y poder recuperar a su esposa.
Shoot To Kill
DCC John Stalker
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Joe Marriot
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
The Act
Johann Frink
Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special 'entertainment', devised by a mysterious Nazi captain. When they discover where they are to perform, they find themselves with an appalling dilemma.
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)
The Angry Earth
Doctor Price
About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old woman.
The Party
Malcolm Sloman
10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In London the fashionable Left are having a dialogue.
Scoop
Corker
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.
La escapada de Sobibor
Itzhak Lichtman
Sobibor es un pequeño pero activo campo de concentración, donde la única esperanza de salvación es la huida. Existe un plan para sacar de ese infierno al mayor número de personas posible, pero hay que tener en cuenta que, de prosperar la fuga, los alemanes tienen como norma eliminar a tantos prisioneros como hombres consigan escapar.
The Hospice
Maybury
When he loses his way on a country road and is bitten by an animal, Maybury stumbles across a strange house where an extravagant dinner is taking place.
Body Contact
Dickie Finn
Rock musical set in the future, around Tottenham and Hackney. Taxi driver, Smiley, helps beautiful Dominique Renoir, who is on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.
Hard Travelling
Harry
Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden and violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys whose encounters along the way bring humour, some comfort, but also danger.
A Room for the Winter
James van Stanten
James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a violent political life but also his handsome lover, Stephen. With little money or inclination to work, he fights a battle of wills with his Jamaican landlady, Katherine.
Sons and Lovers
Baxter Dawes
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
Nina
Play for Today about Russian dissidents.
El conde Drácula
Renfield
Adaptación de la obra de Bram Stoker interpretada por Louis Jourdan y novelada por el comediógrafo inglés Gerald Savory. Las pavorosas andanzas del conde Drácula de Transilvania, que han aterrorizado a varias generaciones de lectores, se ofrecen aquí en una apasionante crónica que resume los momentos más conflictivos de la lucha entre el Bien y el Mal: el profesor Abraham Van Helsing, el doctor Seward, Jonathan Harker y Quincey Holmwood se enfrentan al temible vampiro y a sus secuaces, "los que no mueren".
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Phil Parish - Director
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
Through the Night
Dr Pearce
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
Pidgeon - Hawk or Dove?
Wallace Pidgeon
Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds himself torn between the contradictory demands of his headmaster, his pupils, his young bride and her father.
The Actual Woman
Writer
A winter's day out is a treat for all, but it isnt' quite what Uncle Alec wanted.
All Good Men
On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls his family together for a birthday celebration that results in dramatic revelations.
Occupations
Antonio Gramsci
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered assistance by Kabak (who has just arrived from Moscow) but Gramsci soon realizes Kabak is not motivated by ideology, as he has other motives.
Something to Hide
Joe Pepper
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.
Roll On Four O'Clock
Jack Youngman
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform to the macho culture and is labeled a homosexual, leading to bullying by both the pupils and some of the teachers.
The Virgin Soldiers
Sgt Wellbeloved
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
La sala de estar con cama
Underwater Vicar
Inmediatamente después de la extraña y brevísima Tercera Guerra Mundial, están empezando a manifestarse las extrañas consecuencias de un accidente nuclear: un embarazo de 17 meses y, sobre todo, extrañas mutaciones entre los supervivientes, que se convierten en loros, armarios o incluso en una sala de estar con cama como le ha ocurrido a Lord Fortnum (Ralph Richardson). (FILMAFFINITY)
All Neat in Black Stockings
Dwyer
A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.