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