William Morgan Sheppard
William Morgan Sheppard (August 24, 1932 - January 6, 2019), sometimes credited as W. Morgan Sheppard, was a British actor. In film, he appeared in supporting roles in The Duellists (1977), The Elephant Man (1980), The Keep (1983), Cry Freedom (1987), Wild at Heart (1990), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Needful Things (1993), Gettysburg (1993), The Prestige (2006), Transformers (2007), and Star Trek (2009).
On television, Sheppard appeared in multiple episodes of Shōgun (1980), Max Headroom (1987-1988), MacGyver (1989-1990), and seaQuest DSV (1993-1994), among others. He also was a voice actor with roles in Biker Mice from Mars (1993-1996), Iron Man (1994-1996), Gargoyles (1995-1996), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003), and Prep & Landing (2009).
Sheppard voiced several characters in video games, including narration for the Medal of Honor video game series and Civilization V.
Sheppard and his wife Regina are the parents of actor Mark Sheppard.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8881 |
| Birthday | 1932-08-24 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Morgan Sheppard, W. Morgan Sheppard, Morgan Shepard, |
1990
Wild at Heart
7.032/1936
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a te...
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Wild at Heart
1985
The Doctor and the Devils
6.237/59
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of gettin...
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The Doctor and the Devils
1980
The Elephant Man
8.049/3984
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revea...
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The Elephant Man
1993
Gettysburg
6.979/335
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching t...
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Gettysburg
1998
The Escape
4.5/8
Clayton, at the age of nineteen, is convicted for a crime he did not commit. Ten years afterwards, after having taken all the abuses against him in pr...
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The Escape
2005
Love's Long Journey
7.1/48
Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband W...
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Love's Long Journey
2006
Love's Abiding Joy
7/48
The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie b...
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Love's Abiding Joy
1980
Hawk the Slayer
4.831/68
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to liv...
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Hawk the Slayer
1983
The Keep
5.64/318
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks i...
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The Keep
2009
Prep & Landing
6.919/155
Wayne gets a new rookie partner, Lanny, after his previous partner got the promotion he wanted. Lanny has to remind Wayne of the Spirit of Christmas a...
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Prep & Landing
2008
Over Her Dead Body
5.501/491
After his fiancée, Kate, dies in an accident on their wedding day, veterinarian Henry grows depressed. To help him move on, his sister has him visit p...
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Over Her Dead Body
2009
Star Trek
7.436/10590
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan...
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Star Trek
1985
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
6.627/51
While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subl...
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Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
1984
Lassiter
5.43/43
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
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Lassiter
2012
Mysterious Island
4.549/41
During the American Civil War, five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon. Drifting through the night, they...
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Mysterious Island
2003
Small Town Conspiracy
6.5/2
Set in Florida at the close of 1941, this film noir follows small-town police chief John Haleran's investigation of the murder of a young Japanese gir...
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Small Town Conspiracy
1987
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
6.5/18
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there around twe...
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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
2010
Meeting Spencer
4.5/2
After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's...
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Meeting Spencer
1982
Nutcracker
3.25/4
A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by the powerful, wealthy Madame Laura Carrere.
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Nutcracker
2011
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
7.005/98
Lanny and Wayne are at it again! With the Big 2-5 fast approaching, Wayne and Lanny must race to recover classified North Pole technology which has fa...
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Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
2010
Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer: Operation: Secret Santa
6.626/131
Wayne and Lanny, now partners, are called by Magee to meet with a secret contact – Mrs. Claus, who sends them on a new mission to retrieve a box from...
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Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer: Operation: Secret Santa
2010
Farewell Mr. Kringle
6.2/18
A skeptical journalist is assigned to chronicle the 50th anniversary of Kris Kringle, a Santa Claus in the town of Mistletoe. As her involvement in th...
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Farewell Mr. Kringle
2011
For Christ's Sake
5/4
Robert, a small town priest, finds out his estranged brother desperately needs a loan for cancer treatment and secretly borrows money from the church'...
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For Christ's Sake
2013
The Devil's Dozen
3.9/17
The Devil's Dozen is a supernatural horror/thriller where twelve strangers find themselves in a life or death game where sins are judged and every cho...
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The Devil's Dozen
1975
Antony and Cleopatra
7.8/5
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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Antony and Cleopatra
2007
Along the Way
8/1
A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives......
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Along the Way
1998
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
5.6/1453
When news of John Smith's death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on...
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Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
2003
Gods and Generals
6.369/203
Follows the personal and professional life of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the Ameri...
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Gods and Generals
2012
The Last Mark
6/5
Old uncle Bill who served as the sidekick to the legendary gambler/card shark, Harry tells the story of how they gambled and partied their way from th...
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The Last Mark
1978
The Nativity
7.5/2
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
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The Nativity
2013
April Apocalypse
5.7/59
Artie is pure bred trailer trash. He has zero ambition, is everyone's favorite punching back at school and bears the burden of his virginity in silenc...
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April Apocalypse
1988
Lucky Stiff
4.6/15
Ron Douglas has no luck in women. After his bride runs away on their wedding day, he goes on holiday up in the mountains and finds himself wrapped up...
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Lucky Stiff
2006
The Prestige
8.211/17820
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy wit...
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The Prestige
2016
Last Man Club
6.3/13
A WW2 veteran destined for life in a retirement home escapes his difficult family situation and embarks on a cross country adventure to find the last...
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Last Man Club
1984
Paint Me a Murder
8.5/2
Luke Lorenz is a artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to d...
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Paint Me a Murder
1993
Needful Things
6.262/618
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
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Needful Things
2025
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
0/0
Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact.
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A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
1980
The Sea Wolves
5.897/107
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to un...
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The Sea Wolves
1996
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
4.796/115
Jon Porter comes home for a funeral and walks straight back into hell. The demons who butchered his sister are back, nastier than ever, and now they w...
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Sometimes They Come Back... Again
1988
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
6.705/625
Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from...
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
8/1
Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to tak...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
1999
The Hungry Bachelors Club
8/1
A celebration of life, love, acceptance and family, "Food for the Heart" is a sweet romantic comedy, about two best friends, Delmar (Jorja Fox) and Ho...
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The Hungry Bachelors Club
1996
The Lottery
6/7
Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, clandestine ritual that led to his mother's early d...
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1984
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
6.833/6
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee...
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1968
Tell Me Lies
6.364/11
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in Lo...
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Tell Me Lies
2007
Transformers
6.841/12359
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobot...
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Transformers
1967
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
6.139/36
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Ass...
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
1962
Strongroom
6.5/17
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan t...
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Strongroom
1998
Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure
6.625/8
A girl from high society joins an all-male expedition to Alaska during the 1899 gold rush.
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Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure
1977
The Duellists
7.243/640
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perce...
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The Duellists
1980
Keep Smiling
0/0
Family picnics should not be like this; bugging devices, men with X-ray eyes. Mary doesn't understand what terrifies Simon, nor the bizarre events of...
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Keep Smiling
1980
Carpathian Eagle
5.167/6
Murder victims are being found with the hearts cut out. A police detective is assigned to find and stop the killer. Originally an episode of British h...
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Carpathian Eagle
1994
Good King Wenceslas
4.4/5
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
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Good King Wenceslas
2019
That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars
1.667/3
Documentary about actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood.
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1994
Following Her Heart
5.667/3
A Swedish woman, married to a domineering man for 35 years, is "set free" upon her husband's death. While she is the heir to his estate, she is only a...
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Following Her Heart
2003
Atlantis: Milo's Return
6.3/3909
Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that seem to have links to the secrets of Atlantis.
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Atlantis: Milo's Return
1991
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
7.032/1440
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an...
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
2013
Free Birds
5.882/868
Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history—and...
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Free Birds
1992
There Goes the Neighborhood
5.462/26
A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the New Jersey suburbs to find it. Two prisoners overh...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
1998
Nether World
7/1
In a daring visual and narrative style 'Nether World' is the story of an aging and cynical CIA assassin (W. Morgan Sheppard, Wild at Heart) and an ide...
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Nether World
1987
Cry Freedom
6.996/236
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
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Cry Freedom
1985
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
6.3/91
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their...
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
1993
SeaQuest DSV
0/0
The adventures of SeaQuest DSV crew, an advanced high-tech submarine in mission to protect the oceans against all evil, in a 21st century where human...
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