Career: Arkin made his film debut in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), for which he earned an Academy Award nomination. Two years later, he was nominated again for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968). In the same year, he played the title role in Inspector Clouseau, a character that had been made famous in two earlier films by Peter Sellers. Arkin's other film credits include Wait Until Dark (1967), Catch-22 (1970), The In-Laws (1979) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Argo (2012).

Career: After declaring himself mentally unfit for military service, Hauer returned to acting, making his film debut in 1969's Monsieur Hawarden. Film and TV work in his native Holland followed, and by 1981, a series of excellent performances in such projects as Soldier of Orange and Spetters led him to be cast in his first US movie, Nighthawks, opposite Sylvester Stallone. A year later, Blade Runner made him an international star. Films such as Ladyhawke, The Hitcher, and Blind Fury followed. He fell out of favour during the 1990s, following a string of disappointing movies, but has never stopped working. In 2002, he was in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, had a small role in Batman Begins in 2005 and was in season six of True Blood.

Career: Shepherd worked at the Royal Court Theatre in London from 1965 to 1969, and during the 1970s, he was a regular on TV, appearing in Budgie, The Adventures of Black Beauty, Bill Brand, Crown Court, and Ready When You Are, Mr McGill. From 1977 to 1985, he was a member of Bill Bryden's Cottesloe Theatre Company at the National Theatre. He continued to work on TV, appearing in the likes of Blind Justice, Shoot to Kill, Between the Lines, Lovejoy, High Stakes, The Jury, Silent Witness, All About George, The Nativity, and The Politician's Husband. The peak of his TV popularity came when he played the title role in ITV detective drama Wycliffe from 1993 to 1998. He has also written and directed a number of stage plays.