Career
Was in the Tivoli circuit for many years playing in revue and pantomime, before joining the J. C. Williamson theatre company for several seasons in musical comedy. Roles with J C Williamson included Pyjama Game, Can Can, The Sentimental Bloke, and Sail Away produced by Noël Coward. Shand played in several straight dramatic roles with the company, appearing in such plays as The Manitoba Who Came to Dinner, Arsenic and Old Lace, Love Thy Neighbour and Bell, Book and Candle.
Through the 1960s Shand also acted in several Australian television drama series.
Shand subsequently found his widest audiences in the 1970s on television through his portrayal of hen-pecked Herbert Evans, husband to shrill gossip Dorrie (Pat McDonald), in the phenomenally successful sex-comedy soap opera Number 96. Comedy characters Dorrie and Herb became two of the show"s most popular figures and continued in the series its entire 1972–1977 run.
After the series ended Shand acted in television dramas The Young Doctors, A Country Practice, Prisoner and G.P. and the acclaimed miniseries Poor Manitoba"s Orange. He also was part of the cast of a 1977 Benny Hill television special made in Australia, in place of Hill"s usual short, bald stooge Jackie Wright.