Sam Shepard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 5, 1943
- Died
- July 27, 2017 (aged 73)
- Birthplace
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Movie · as The Writer
Never Here
Movie · as Paul Stark
California Typewriter
Movie · as Self
Midnight Special
Movie · as Calvin Meyer
In Dubious Battle
Movie · as Mr. Anderson
Ithaca
Movie · as Willie Grogan
Bloodline
TV · as Robert Rayburn · 13 eps
Cold in July
Movie · as Russell
Klondike
TV · as Father Judge · 3 eps
Mud
Movie · as Tom
August: Osage County
Movie · as Beverly Weston
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Movie · as Self
Out of the Furnace
Movie · as Gerald 'Red' Baze
Savannah
Movie · as Mr. Stubbs
Killing Them Softly
Movie · as Dillon
Safe House
Movie · as Harlan Whitford
Darling Companion
Movie · as Sheriff Morris
Shepard & Dark
Movie · as Self
Blackthorn
Movie · as James Blackthorn
Inhale
Movie · as James Harrison
Fair Game
Movie · as Sam Plame
Brothers
Movie · as Hank Cahill
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Movie · as Self
Felon
Movie · as Gordon
The Accidental Husband
Movie · as Wilder
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
Movie · as Self
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Movie · as Frank James
Ruffian
Movie · as Frank Whiteley
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Movie · as Self
The Return
Movie · as Ed Mills
Bandidas
Movie · as Bill Buck
Charlotte's Web
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Walker Payne
Movie · as Syrus
Stealth
Movie · as George Cummings
Don't Come Knocking
Movie · as Howard
Trudell
Movie · as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
The Notebook
Movie · as Frank Calhoun
Blind Horizon
Movie · as Sheriff Jack Kolb
This So-Called Disaster
Movie · as Self
Leo
Movie · as Vic
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Movie · as Self
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
Movie · as Self
Black Hawk Down
Movie · as Garrison
The Pledge
Movie · as Eric Pollack
Swordfish
Movie · as Senator Reisman
Shot in the Heart
Movie · as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
After the Harvest
Movie · as Caleb Gare
Hamlet
Movie · as Ghost
All the Pretty Horses
Movie · as J.C. Franklin
Kurosawa
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
One Kill
Movie · as Maj. Nelson Gray
Purgatory
Movie · as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Dash and Lilly
Movie · as Dashiell Hammett
Snow Falling on Cedars
Movie · as Arthur Chambers
Curtain Call
Movie · as Will Dodge
The Only Thrill
Movie · as Reece McHenry
Lily Dale
Movie · as Pete Davenport
The Good Old Boys
Movie · as Tarnell
Dear Antonioni
Movie · as Self
Streets of Laredo
TV · as Pea Eye Parker · 3 eps
Safe Passage
Movie · as Patrick
The Pelican Brief
Movie · as Thomas Callahan
Made in the USA
Movie · as Self
Thunderheart
Movie · as Frank Coutelle
Voyager
Movie · as Walter Faber
Defenseless
Movie · as Det. Beutel
Bright Angel
Movie · as Jack Russell
Steel Magnolias
Movie · as Spud Jones
MaMa's Pushcart
Movie
Baby Boom
Movie · as Dr. Jeff Cooper
Crimes of the Heart
Movie · as Doc Porter
Fool for Love
Movie · as Eddie
Country
Movie · as Gil Ivy
The Right Stuff
Movie · as Chuck Yeager
Frances
Movie · as Harry York
Raggedy Man
Movie · as Bailey
Resurrection
Movie · as Cal
Days of Heaven
Movie · as The Farmer
Renaldo and Clara
Movie · as Rodeo
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Brand X
Movie
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV · as Self (uncredited) · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep