Elizabeth Shepherd

Elizabeth Shepherd

Born: August 12, 1936
in London, England, UK
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Elizabeth Shepherd  (born 12 August 1936) is an English character actress whose work has spanned the stage and both the big and small screens. Her surname has been alternately billed as "Shephard" and "Sheppard".

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Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
Title: Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
Character: Joan Thorn
Released: January 1, 2025
Type: Movie
Upcoming movie by Timo Rose
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Amelia
Title: Amelia
Character: Frances Putnam
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
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Love and Treason
Title: Love and Treason
Character: Betty Timmons
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Kate is a Naval officer whose married to a Marine. When she learns her husband is committing treason she turns him in. He's sent to prison and she divorces him and would have to deal with the stigma of being married to a traitor. A few years later, her husband escapes from prison and the consensus is that he's going after her. And he approaches her but doesn't do anything to her. She thinks he's up to something and tries to find out what it is.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Mrs. Waterson
Released: September 10, 2000
Type: Movie
An affair between a pianist and a teacher begins to disintegrate when girls from her school turn up missing.
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Spreading Ground
Title: Spreading Ground
Character: Mayor Hackett
Released: March 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Mrs. Donovan
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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The White Raven
Title: The White Raven
Character: Hannah Rothschild
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison camp. Only trouble is it disappeared after the war and now everyone is after it, including the Russians, former Nazis, gangsters, and the original owner. Somehow, the story that the journalist originally wrote about a camp survivor is believed to have leads to the diamond.
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Title: Silver Surfer
Character: Infinity (voice)
Released: February 7, 1998
Type: TV
The adventures of the cosmic wanderer as he seeks his lost home after rebelling from his master.
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Title: Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Character: Grace Hoover
Released: October 26, 1997
Type: Movie
A female prosecutor notices a woman in a plastic surgeon's waiting room who looks strikingly like a girl who was murdered more than ten years earlier. An investigation into the plastic surgeon grows more bizarre by the minute, as the prosecutor unravels a ten year old mystery involving betrayal and murder.
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End of Summer
Title: End of Summer
Character: Vera
Released: September 16, 1997
Type: Movie
An unmarried aristocrat (Jacqueline Bisset) resists the advances of the adventurous man (Peter Weller) whom she actually desires, causing him to turn his attentions to her new ward (Amy Locane) and a young maid (Karen Dwyer).
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Title: The Adventures of Shirley Holmes
Released: May 7, 1997
Type: TV
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from 1997 to 2000. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher who had produced a successful series of books with Harper Collins, teaming up with Credo and Forefront to develop the TV series. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the series follows the life of Shirley Holmes, the great grand-niece of Sherlock Holmes who, with the help of ex-gang member Bo Sawchuk, tackles a variety of mysteries in and around the fictional Canadian city of Redington. On some occasions, she found herself matching wits with archnemesis Molly Hardy. The show has been broadcast in over 80 countries and has been dubbed in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Polish and Turkish. Her performance in the show led to actress Meredith Henderson being nominated for a Gemini Award in 1998 and winning one in 1999. The show itself was twice nominated for a Gemini Award in the category "Best Children's or Youth Program or Series" in 1998 and eventually won it in 1999. In the spring of 1998 Susin Nielsen won a Gemini Award in the category "Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program" for her screenplay of the episode "The Case of the Burning Building". In the same year, Elizabeth Stewart won a WGC Award from the Writers Guild of Canada for her writing of the episode "The Case of the Maestro's Ghost".
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Title: Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: TV
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to possessions. The organization depicted in the series is loosely inspired by a real-life scientific organization. While locations in the series took place worldwide, the series was primarily filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000.
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Title: Side Effects
Released: October 14, 1994
Type: TV
Side Effects is a Canadian television series
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Mustard Bath
Title: Mustard Bath
Character: Matthew's Mom
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Hidden Room
Released: July 23, 1991
Type: TV
The Hidden Room is an American drama-horror anthology television series. Geared mainly towards women, it aired on the Lifetime cable network for 33 episodes from 1991 to 1993. Each episode usually centered around a woman in hardship, but with a dark Twilight Zone-ish twist. Most episodes starred a well-known actress in the lead role.
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Criminal Law
Title: Criminal Law
Character: Dr. Thiel
Released: April 28, 1989
Type: Movie
A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.
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Head Office
Title: Head Office
Character: Mrs. Issel
Released: June 6, 1985
Type: Movie
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices.
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Title: The Cleopatras
Character: Cleopatra, the mother
Released: January 19, 1983
Type: TV
Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.
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Invitation to the Wedding
Title: Invitation to the Wedding
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
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Love
Title: Love
Character: Mrs. Wiseman ("Julia")
Released: July 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.
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Title: Q.E.D.
Released: March 23, 1982
Type: TV
Q.E.D. is a 1982 short-lived adventure series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill. The Professor was a scientific detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and the series had a smattering of what would later be called steampunk. In the show, the lead character was known primarily by his initials, Q.E.D; the reference here is that Q.E.D. usually stands for quod erat demonstrandum, a statement signalling the end of a proof. The show aired on the CBS network in the United States, and on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
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Title: The Phoenix Team
Released: September 16, 1980
Type: TV
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The Kidnapping of the President
Title: The Kidnapping of the President
Character: Joan Scott
Released: August 15, 1980
Type: Movie
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.
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Double Negative
Title: Double Negative
Character: Frances
Released: May 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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Damien: Omen II
Title: Damien: Omen II
Character: Joan Hart
Released: June 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Character: Emma Sholto
Released: May 22, 1978
Type: Movie
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. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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Hell Boats
Title: Hell Boats
Character: Alison
Released: March 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: The Hon. Fiona Cowley
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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Title: ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Character: Ellen
Released: January 11, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: The Corridor People
Character: Syrie Van Epp
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: TV
The Corridor People is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1966, devised and written by Edward Boyd. A surreal black-and-white detective series, The Corridor People pitched security agent Kronk against exotic villainess Syrie Van Epp over the course of four episodes.
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The Tomb of Ligeia
Title: The Tomb of Ligeia
Character: Lady Rowena Trevanion / Lady Ligeia
Released: November 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
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Blind Corner
Title: Blind Corner
Character: Joan Marshall
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul s money, Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...
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The Queen's Guards
Title: The Queen's Guards
Released: October 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
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Title: Amelia
Released: April 14, 1961
Type: TV
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The Encyclopaedist
Title: The Encyclopaedist
Character: Sally Louth
Released: April 11, 1961
Type: Movie
A young salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a complete set of encyclopedia to Sally Louth, a housewife living on the Chelsea-Fulham border in London.
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Title: Bleak House
Character: Ada Clare
Released: October 16, 1959
Type: TV
Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson and Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone. The complete series still exists.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.