Jack ShepherdFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Supporting actor, onscreen from 1969. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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God on Trial

Actors: Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Dominic Cooper, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: In a universe presumably ruled by a benevolent, all-powerful God, how can events such as the Holocaust possibly come to pass? This is the question posed by a group of inmates in Auschwitz, the Third Reich's most notorious death camp, in this reflective war drama written by Frank Cottrell Boyce Read More

2008
The Golden Compass

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green

Synopsis: A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darkness in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Belacqua, Casino Royale Read More

12/7/07
The Other Boleyn Girl

Actors: Natascha McElhone, Jodhi May, Jared Harris, Steven Mackintosh, Philip Glenister

Synopsis: U.K. documentary filmmaker Philippa Lowthorpe brings an experimental approach to the costume drama The Other Boleyn Girl, produced for television by BBC Films. Shot with a handheld digital camera, the film is a largely improvised project based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory. In 16th Read More

2003
The Jury

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler, Helen McCrory

Synopsis: First telecast in the U.K. on February 17, 2002, the five-part British miniseries The Jury probes the workings of justice from the viewpoint of the 12 men and women chosen to determine the fate of a Sikh teenager, accused of murdering a white classmate with a ceremonial sword. This racially Read More

2002
Charlotte Gray

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, this drama, set in Europe during World War II, stars Cate Blanchett as Charlotte, a Scottish woman living in London. Charlotte falls in love with Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones), a handsome RAF pilot, and the two are soon caught up in a torrid Read More

12/28/01
Lorna Doone

Actors: Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle, Amelia Warner

Synopsis: Filmed in London and Wales, this two-part adaptation of the oft-dramatized R.D. Blackmore novel Lorna Doone was praised for its realism, though one or two nitpickers pointed out that the costumes were not all "in period" for 17th century Scotland. This time around, Amelia Warner starred as the Read More

2001
The Martins

Actors: Lee Evans, Kathy Burke, Linda Bassett, Eric Byrne, Terri Dumont

Synopsis: A man who wants to give his family the good things in life decides to start stealing them in this dark comedy from England. Robert Martin (Lee Evans) is a working-class loser -- or at least he might be working-class if he had a job -- who is obsessed with entering contests, certain a big prize Read More

2001
Wonderland

Actors: Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Ian Hart, John Simm

Synopsis: The members of a British working-class family see their lives starting to come apart as the Nation prepares to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day (named for an anarchist who tried to blow up Parliament) in Michael Winterbottom's drama Wonderland. Eileen (Kika Markham) and Bill (Jack Shepherd) are a married Read More

7/28/00
The Scarlet Tunic

Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Emma Fielding, Simon Callow, Jack Shepherd, John Sessions

Synopsis: Born in Dorsetshire, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) fictionalized the region as Wessex in his short stories and novels. In 1973, stories from Thomas Hardy's collection Wessex Tales (1888) were adapted to television for a BBC-2 series (also titled Wessex Tales) that included a memorable contribution ("A Read More

1998
No Escape

Actors: Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Ian McNeice

Synopsis: A man from the future fights to survive in a society thrown back to the dark ages in this sci-fi adventure set in 2022. Capt. Robbins (Ray Liotta) is a military man who, after he's convicted of the murder of his superior officer, is sentenced to a high-tech prison ruled by the Warden (Michael Lerner Read More

1994
Wycliffe [TV Series]

Actors: Jack Shepherd, Jimmy Yuill, Helen Masters, Aaron Harris, Adam Barker

Synopsis: Based on the novels of W.J. Bailey, the British drama series Wycliffe concerned itself with the exploits of an extremely thorough Cornish detective. Jack Shepherd starred as Det. Supt. Wycliffe, whose beat included virtually the length and breadth of the Cornwall coast. The series first aired Read More

1994
Calling the Shots

1993
Blue Ice

Actors: Michael Caine, Sean Young, Ian Holm, Alun Armstrong, Sam Kelly

Synopsis: Released in the US on cable television, Blue Ice stars Michael Caine as an older, tireder version of his 1960s "Harry Palmer" character (his name, in fact, is Harry Anders). An M16 agent-turned-nightclub owner, Caine is a man of steadfast loyalties. Thus he takes it personally when several friends Read More

1993
Blue Black Permanent

Actors: Jack Shepherd, Celia Imrie, James Fleet

Synopsis: In this film, Barbara, a middle-aged woman living in Edinburgh in the present, is overwhelmed by memories of Greta, her long-dead mother from the 1930s to the 1950s. Flashbacks show the girl with her poetess mother in Edinburgh and the Orkney Isles. Her mother was fascinated by the sea which would Read More

1992
Twenty-One

Actors: Patsy Kensit, Jack Shepherd, Patrick Ryecart, Rufus Sewell, Sophie Thompson

Synopsis: Patsy Kensit stars in Don Boyd's distaff version of Alfie, with Kensit playing 21-year-old Katie, an attractive and self-absorbed Londoner who has just reached this milestone of an age and is trying to make some sense out of it. Until now, Katie has enjoyed life and all its pleasures without Read More

10/4/91
Crossing the Line

Actors: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Ian Bannen, Billy Connolly, Maurice Roeves

Synopsis: Filmmaker David Leland handled the directing chores on this British drama that stars Liam Neeson as an unemployed Scotsman whose inability to find a job threatens his family's wellbeing. Against his better judgement, Neeson is coerced into a bare-knuckle boxing match. Crossing the Line's Read More

8/9/91
The Object of Beauty

Actors: John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Michael Lindsay-Hogg wrote and directed this cool and sleek comedy about a seemingly perfect combination -- an American couple staying at a chic London hotel whose pride doesn't permit them to recognize that they are broke, and a hotel staff so brimming with proper British reserve that they can't Read More

4/12/91
Misterioso

1991
Van Gogh

Synopsis: Golden Globe-winner Linus Roache stars as tormented postimpressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh in this award winning BBC production that follows the man behind "Starry Night" as he travels from Paris to England, falls in love, creates his masterpieces, and ultimately succumbs to his own inner Read More

1990
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Actors: Louisa Haigh, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley stars as Simon Weisenthal, an Austrian Jew who is interred in the Malthausen concentration camp during World War II. When the camp is liberated, it is Weisenthal's eyewitness testimony, coupled with sketches that he's made of the many Nazi atrocities, that leads to the capture of Read More

1989
A Day in Summer

Actors: Peter Egan, Jack Shepherd

Synopsis: A seemingly harmless man comes to a small town with a deadly mission in mind in this British made-for-television movie. Jack Shepherd stars as Peplow, a reserved man who meets up with a disenchanted, crippled veteran (Peter Egan) on the day of their town's annual fair. Unbeknownst to the Read More

1989
The Angry Earth

Actors: Mark Lewis Jones, Dafydd Hywel, Jack Shepherd

Synopsis: Some of the conditions which prompted the development of the United Kingdom's Socialist party (and some radical political movements) are explored in this quasi-biographical historical drama, which goes into the harsh life experienced by one woman who lived and worked in a Welsh coal mining town at Read More

1989
Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage

1989
Luces Y Sombras

Actors: José Luis Gómez, Jack Shepherd, Ángela Molina, Fermi Reixach, Marti Galindo

Synopsis: This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy enters the canvas of the famous picture of the Spanish king and his court. In order to return to the real world, he must convince the artist to create his famous painting. The other plot involves a film Read More

1988
Body Contact

1988
Escape from Sobibor

Synopsis: During WWII, Sobibor was a notorious Nazi death camp. This gripping, fact-based drama chronicles the courage of an inmate who managed the largest escape from such a place. Thanks to him, over 300 prisoners were freed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Scoop

1987
The Act

Actors: Robert Ginty, Sarah Langenfeld, John Aprea, John Tripp

Synopsis: John Sebastian's musical score lends an appropriately anachronistic touch to the endearingly outdated The Act. Robert Ginty and Sarah Langenfield are the principal participants in this satiric tale of political dirty trickery, with emphasis on underhanded union tactics. Also on hand are veterans Read More

1982
Count Dracula

Synopsis: Count Dracula is a three-part British television adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel. Louis Jourdan plays the count not as villain or pathetic victim of circumstance, but a charismatic charmer, who doesn't need to suck the blood of his lady victims to make them faint. Part One takes place in Read More

1977
Shattered

Actors: Peter Finch, Linda Hayden

Synopsis: Also released under the title Something to Hide, this film follows the slow disintegration of a man's (Peter Finch) life due to the problems brought on by his troubled marriage, his drinking, and the appearance of a strange hitchhiker (Linda Hayden). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
The Last Valley

Actors: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson

Synopsis: Noted novelist and sometime film director James Clavell, wrote, directed, and produced this adaptation of J.B. Pick's novel, set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. During the chaotic confrontations and shifting alliances of the war, a hidden valley protected from the outside world becomes Read More

1971
All Neat in Black Stockings

Actors: Victor Henry, Susan George, Jack Shepherd, Claire Kelly, Anna Cropper

Synopsis: In the hip and swingin' London of the '60s, a young window washer, Ginger (Victor Henry) divides his time between picking up the cleaning rag and picking up women in the hip London pubs. One girl he meets is the pretty and demure Jill (Susan George), who his best friend Dwyer (Jack Shephard) takes Read More

1969
World in Ferment [TV Series]

Actors: Angela Thorne, Jack Shepherd, Dinsdale Landen, John Bird, Irene Handl

Synopsis: This wickedly hilarious British comedy series was a dead-on spoof of World in Action, a popular BBC investigative-reporting series. On each half-hour episode, the series' "correspondents" promised to tear the lid off a recent scandal, but generally found themselves struggling to make exciting Read More

1969
The Virgin Soldiers

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Patrick, Rachel Kempson

Synopsis: This situation comedy finds rookie soldiers of the British Army trying to cope with military life while stationed in Malaya. Brigg (Hywel Bennett) is a young clerk who falls for the local school teacher Phillipa (Lynn Redgrave), the daughter of Royal Sergeant Major Raskin (Nigel Patrick). Brigg Read More

1969