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