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