Michael Shepley

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as The Gambler

A series of three minute strange tales narrated by Peter Williams.

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as George Barnes

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes • as Sir Nigel

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes • as Sir Charles Russell QC

A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Teacher (uncredited)

Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Mr. Gregsbury M. P.

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Gilbert Morfield

A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Sir Henry

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Herbert Manners

A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Gower - Captain in the English Army

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Dr. Baring-Hartley

That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Sir Rupert Bellamy

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Major Watson

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Man (uncredited)

Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman. Written by Les Adams

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Man in Club

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Col. Henry Wagstaff

Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Captain Ronald Marsh

A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Mr. Cogent

A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Chairman of Court

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Jim, Marcia's Husband

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Cecil Barker

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Manager of the British Pavilion

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as The Judge

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • as Lt. Lutyens

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Jill's Father

A youthful doctor tires of general practice and signs up to be a ship's doctor in an effort to bring some excitement into his life. Unfortunately, the cargo boat he joins is skippered by a formidable martinet captain and, worse still, there are only two women on board. Luckily for the fun-loving medic, one of them, a beautiful French girl, is more than impressed with his bedside manner.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Adjutant

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • as Alistair Manning-Tutthorn

An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Peter Edge

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Granville-Carter

When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Sir Charles Marsham

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Mr. Walford

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Col. Blewton-Fawcett

The scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under the exasperated chief steward. Along for the trip are the wealthy Mrs. Brough and her secretary Pat. Soon Mrs. Broughs’ jewels are stolen…

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Colonel

An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty...

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Major McGlusky

The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Maj. Wrigley in 1903

Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Shepard

Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting Ellen, chief designer and manager, he quickly changes his mind and turns his attention to courting her.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Wally Astill

London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Spooner

A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Victor Beamish

Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Raynor

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Hildebrand Pope

Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Henry Marsland

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Fowler

A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Mark Elliot

A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Hilary

Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as George Despard

The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Paul Hemming

A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Colin Barratt

Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined policeman.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Richard Emsley

The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.