Sam Shepard
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Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.
Known for
Credits
The Notebook (2004)
as Frank Calhoun
Black Hawk Down (2001)
as MG William F. Garrison
Brothers (2009)
as Hank Cahill
Charlotte's Web (2006)
as Narrator (voice)
Mud (2013)
as Tom
Safe House (2012)
as Harlan Whitford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
as Frank James
The Pelican Brief (1993)
as Thomas Callahan
Steel Magnolias (1989)
as Spud Jones
Swordfish (2001)
as Senator Reisman
Out of the Furnace (2013)
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
Stealth (2005)
as George Cummings
Midnight Special (2016)
as Calvin Meyer
The Right Stuff (1983)
as Chuck Yeager
The Pledge (2001)
as Eric Pollack
Days of Heaven (1978)
as The Farmer
Bandidas (2006)
as Bill Buck
Killing Them Softly (2012)
as Dillon
Baby Boom (1987)
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
In Dubious Battle (2016)
as Mr. Anderson
Felon (2008)
as Gordon
Fair Game (2010)
as Sam Plame
August: Osage County (2013)
as Beverly Weston
Thunderheart (1992)
as Frank Coutelle
The Accidental Husband (2008)
as Wilder
The Return (2006)
as Ed Mills
Cold in July (2014)
as Russell
Frances (1982)
as Harry York
Ithaca (2015)
as Willie Grogan
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
as J.C. Franklin
Blind Horizon (2003)
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
Purgatory (1999)
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Never Here (2017)
as Paul Stark
Lily Dale (1996)
as Pete Davenport
Bright Angel (1990)
as Jack Russell
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
as Arthur Chambers
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
as Doc Porter
Voyager (1991)
as Walter Faber
Raggedy Man (1981)
as Bailey
Blackthorn (2011)
as James Blackthorn
Hamlet (2000)
as Ghost
Darling Companion (2012)
as Sheriff Morris
Curtain Call (1998)
as Will Dodge
Don't Come Knocking (2005)
as Howard
Fool for Love (1985)
as Eddie
Walker Payne (2006)
as Syrus
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
as The Writer
Leo (2002)
as Vic
Ruffian (2007)
as Frank Whiteley
Safe Passage (1994)
as Patrick
One Kill (2000)
as Maj. Nelson Gray
Trudell (2005)
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
The Only Thrill (1997)
as Reece McHenry
Defenseless (1991)
as Det. Beutel
Inhale (2010)
as James Harrison
Dash and Lilly (1999)
as Dashiell Hammett
The Good Old Boys (1995)
as Tarnell
Resurrection (1980)
as Cal
Kurosawa (2000)
as Narrator (voice)
Savannah (2013)
as Mr. Stubbs
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)
as Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
as Self
Made in the USA (1993)
as Self
Shot in the Heart (2001)
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Country (1984)
as Gil Ivy
California Typewriter (2017)
as Self
Brand X (1970)
Actor
After the Harvest (2001)
as Caleb Gare
Renaldo and Clara (1978)
as Rodeo
This So-Called Disaster (2003)
as Self
Shepard & Dark (2012)
as Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)
as Self
Dear Antonioni (1995)
as Self
MaMa's Pushcart (1988)
Actor
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2007)
as Self