Jack Shepherd obituary

Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series WycliffeThe actor Jack Shepherd, who has died aged 85, was, in his own quiet and modest way, a Renaissance man who not only acted beautifully on stage and screen for 60 years, but also wrote a dozen plays, directed at Shakespeare’s Globe, painted in oils, played jazz piano and saxophone, and loved singing.His innumerable credits are testament to a pathological creative energy, and he was drawn most e