Jack Shepherd

Jack Shepherd

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

História

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

Filmes

Greed: A Indústria da Moda
Eric Weeks
O aniversário do proprietário de lojas de roupas da moda está chegando. Ele é um homem influente e sua fortuna é medida em bilhões. Ele conseguiu ficar rico pelo fato de não hesitar em fazer algo que nem sempre era correto em relação à força de trabalho, que pagava centavos, e também transformou todos os tipos de assuntos aventureiros. E planeja comemorar seu sexagésimo aniversário em uma ilha grega. Toda a elite da moda chegará a Mykonos. Os convidados estão ansiosos pelo alcance do evento, mas não têm idéia do que as surpresas que o anfitrião do banquete preparou para eles. E uma pessoa dotada de cinismo dará vazão à imaginação.
Greyhawk
Howard
A reclusive, disillusioned Army veteran is prompted into action when his only friend goes missing on a down-at-heel council estate.
Tempos de Tormenta
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill foi o obstáculo mais importante dos nazistas durante a II Guerra Mundial. Com sua autoridade intrépida e retórica, inspirou milhões de britânicos e outros grupos mundiais a lutar até o final contra Hitler.
A Bússola de Ouro
Master
Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) é uma órfã que foi criada na Universidade Oxford. No mundo em que vive todas as pessoas têm um "daemon", ou seja, uma manifestação de sua própria alma em forma animal. Lyra leva uma vida tranqüila até ela e seu daemon, Pantalaimon, descobrirem a existência de uma substância misteriosa chamada "pó". Isto provoca um estranho efeito nas crianças, o que faz com que as autoridades religiosas se convençam de que representa o mal. Seguindo o misterioso Lorde Asriel (Daniel Craig), seu protetor, Lyra parte em busca de uma resposta. Em Londres ela descobre que diversas crianças estão desaparecendo, entre elas Roger (Ben Walker), seu melhor amigo. Com a ajuda de um instrumento ancestral, que se parece com uma bússola de ouro, ela parte numa jornada que pode alterar o mundo para sempre.
A Dad for Christmas
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
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.
A Cock and Bull Story
Surgeon
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, 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.
The Other Boleyn Girl
Thomas Boleyn
Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII, before being ousted by her younger sister, Anne. Mary leaves the Court to marry a commoner, but returns when Anne embarks on a reckless policy to save herself from ruin.
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Referee (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans a 20-year period. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.
Charlotte Gray: Paixão Sem Fronteiras
Pichon
Em 1942, em plena 2ª Guerra Mundial, Londres está bloqueada e diversas bombas são lançadas sobre a cidade durante a noite. Disposta a ajudar no que lhe for possível, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) decide por deixar a Escócia e partir rumo a Londres. Ao chegar ela logo conhece Peter Gregory (Rupert Penry-Jones), um piloto da força aérea britânica, por quem se apaixona. Mas o namoro dos dois é bruscamente interrompido quando Peter é convocado para uma missão aérea na França, onde seu avião é abatido e ele fica desaparecido. Acreditando que Peter ainda esteja vivo e escondido pela Resistência Francesa, Charlotte decide partir rumo a França. Como fala francês fluentemente, ela consegue ser recrutada como uma agente secreta e é enviada justamente para ajudar a Resistência Francesa.
The Martins
DI Tony Branch
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!
Lorna Doone
Reuben Huckaback
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of Monmouth. On the king's death, conflict is inevitable... Over seven days journey from London, Exmoor is a primitive and lawless area. Here, farmer Jack Ridd lives with his wife Sarah, son John, and two daughters. The only shadow over their simple life is cast by the notorious outlaw family the Doones. The aristocratic Doones were banished from their ancestral lands and now live through looting, theft, and murder. Their brutality is legendary...
Wonderland
Bill
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
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.
Fuga de Absolom
Dysart
Em 2022, Robbins, um oficial condenado por ter assassinado seu superior, vai para uma prisão de segurança máxima que tem uma ilha-presídio, idealizada por seu administrador, para onde são mandados os piores prisioneiros, que criaram uma primitiva e isolada sociedade onde prevalece a lei do mais forte. Robbins é mandado para lá após quase matar o administrador do presídio e lá se envolve em uma guerra entre dois grupos, que vivem em um clima de constante rivalidade.
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.
Blue Ice
Stevens
Um ex-espião britânico (Michael Caine) ajuda a esposa de um diplomata norte-americano (Sean Young) e acaba com um acobertamento mortal do governo.
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 do Desejo
Marty Slaughter
Jake (John Malkovich, de "Ligações Perigosas") e Tina (Andie McDowell, de "Quatro Casamentos e um Funeral"), são um casal americano que vive uma vida de luxo num hotel em Londres, consumindo tudo do bom e do melhor. As coisas começam a complicar quando uma greve de trabalhadores acaba com um negócio milionário que Jake fechava com produtores de cacau. O dinheiro da dupla rapidamente desaparece e as contas se acumulam. Até que ele vê uma possível solução nas mãos de Tina: uma raríssima escultura de Henry Moore, única lembrança que ela guarda de seu ex-marido. Quando o "objeto do desejo" desaparece, a confusão está formada e, entre divertidos altos e baixos, Jake e Tina vão ter que reavaliar sua relação - enquanto a misteriosa camareira surda parece esconder um segredo...
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.
Luta Decisiva
Referee
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
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.
Fuga de Sobibor
Itzhak Lichtman
Baseado em fatos reais, ex-prisioneiro do campo, Fuga de Sobibor / Escape from Sobibor conta a aguerrida fuga de prisioneiros de um campo de concentração nazista durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sobibor é um dos três campos de concentração localizado na Polônia oriental. Um grupo de prisioneiros é temporariamente poupado para poder trabalhar no acampamento, sob condições degradantes impostas pelos oficiais nazistas. Relembrando o destino desumano de cada dia, os prisioneiros planejam o impossível - fugir de Sobibor! Uma história que verdadeiramente reflete a força, a coragem e a resistência do espírito humano. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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.
Count Dracula
Renfield
Um clássico cult dos anos setenta, considerado uma das adaptações mais fiéis ao romance "Drácula" de Bram Stoker. Feito pela TV britânica, o milenar conto vampírico desenrola-se com Jonathan Harker visitando o conde da Transilvânia para ajudá-lo com os preparativos para ir a Inglaterra. No castelo do Conde (este interpretado magnificamente por Louis Jourdan), Jonathan torna-se um prisioneiro e aos poucos descobre a verdadeira natureza de seu sanguinário anfitrião...
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.
The Bed Sitting Room
Underwater Vicar
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
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.