W. Morgan Sheppard
William Morgan Sheppard (24 August 1932 – 6 January 2019)[1][2] was an English actor who appeared in over 100 films and television programmes, in a career that spanned over 50 years.
This article is about the English actor. For the NASCAR driver, see Morgan Shepherd.
W. Morgan Sheppard
6 January 2019 (aged 86)
Morgan Sheppard
Actor
1961–2017
Regina Lisa Scherer (m. 1963)
Early life and stage career[edit]
Sheppard served in the British Merchant Navy during the Korean War.[3] He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1958,[4] before spending 12 years as an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared on Broadway in Marat/Sade (1966) and in Sherlock Holmes (1975).[5] He won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for The Homecoming in 1995.
Video game career[edit]
Sheppard voiced several characters in video games. He narrated the introductions and mission briefings for the first four installments of the Medal of Honor video-game series. He was cast in the 1996 adventure game Zork Nemesis, playing the live-action role of Bishop Francois Malveaux, one of the four alchemists central to the plot of the game. In 2000, he voiced the character Ignatius Cheese in the game Escape from Monkey Island. Sheppard voiced over for the character John Adams in the Wii game The Conduit. He provided the voice for the character Lucky in the 2002 Xbox (console) game Whacked!. On 4 August 2010, Sheppard was announced as the voice actor for the video game Civilization V.[7] and provided the voice overs for loading screens, victory screens, built wonders, and newly researched technologies.
Personal life[edit]
Sheppard and his wife Regina were the parents of actor Mark Sheppard.[8][9] Sheppard died on 6 January 2019, in Los Angeles, California, aged 86.[5][9][4][10]