Joseph Sheppard (born 1958, Houston, Texas) is an American actor. His first public appearance was in 1968 as a child guest on the Art Linkletter House Party television program. Sheppard was graduated Verdugo Hills High School (1977( where he appeared in numerous plays. He was a member of the exclusive Los Angeles City College Theatre Department and Academy program (Associate of Arts in Theater, 1979). Sheppard started the Roadshow Players traveling theater troupe. It entertained thousands of children in Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s.