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 Garrison
Steel Magnolias (1989)
as Spud Jones
Swordfish (2001)
as Senator Reisman
Brothers (2009)
as Hank Cahill
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
as Frank James
The Pelican Brief (1993)
as Thomas Callahan
Safe House (2012)
as Harlan Whitford
Charlotte's Web (2006)
as Narrator (voice)
Stealth (2005)
as George Cummings
Out of the Furnace (2013)
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
August: Osage County (2013)
as Beverly Weston
Killing Them Softly (2012)
as Dillon
The Accidental Husband (2008)
as Wilder
Mud (2013)
as Tom
The Pledge (2001)
as Eric Pollack
Thunderheart (1992)
as Frank Coutelle
Fair Game (2010)
as Sam Plame
The Right Stuff (1983)
as Chuck Yeager
Days of Heaven (1978)
as The Farmer
Midnight Special (2016)
as Calvin Meyer
Bandidas (2006)
as Bill Buck
Cold in July (2014)
as Russell
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
as J.C. Franklin
In Dubious Battle (2016)
as Mr. Anderson
Felon (2008)
as Gordon
Baby Boom (1987)
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
as Arthur Chambers
Blackthorn (2011)
as James Blackthorn
Blind Horizon (2003)
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
Frances (1982)
as Harry York
Don't Come Knocking (2005)
as Howard
The Return (2006)
as Ed Mills
Purgatory (1999)
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Ithaca (2015)
as Willie Grogan
Darling Companion (2012)
as Sheriff Morris
Resurrection (1980)
as Cal
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
as The Writer
Fool for Love (1985)
as Eddie
Inhale (2010)
as James Harrison
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
as Doc Porter
Never Here (2017)
as Paul Stark
Kurosawa (2000)
as Narrator (voice)
Raggedy Man (1981)
as Bailey
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
as Self
The Good Old Boys (1995)
as Tarnell
The Only Thrill (1997)
as Reece McHenry
Dash and Lilly (1999)
as Dashiell Hammett
Trudell (2005)
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
Hamlet (2000)
as Ghost
Bright Angel (1990)
as Jack Russell
Safe Passage (1994)
as Patrick
Defenseless (1991)
as Det. Beutel
Savannah (2013)
as Mr. Stubbs
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)
as Self
Curtain Call (1998)
as Will Dodge
Brand X (1970)
Actor
California Typewriter (2017)
as Self
Lily Dale (1996)
as Pete Davenport
Dear Antonioni (1995)
as Self
Ruffian (2007)
as Frank Whiteley
Walker Payne (2006)
as Syrus
Leo (2002)
as Vic
Shot in the Heart (2001)
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Voyager (1991)
as Walter Faber
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)
as Self
Country (1984)
as Gil Ivy
One Kill (2000)
as Maj. Nelson Gray
This So-Called Disaster (2003)
as Self
Made in the USA (1993)
as Self
After the Harvest (2001)
as Caleb Gare
Renaldo and Clara (1978)
as Rodeo
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2007)
as Self
Shepard & Dark (2012)
as Self
MaMa's Pushcart (1988)
Actor