Sam Shepard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 5, 1943
- Died
- Jul 27, 2017 (aged 73)
- Place of birth
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
- Credits
- 82
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
Filmography
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019Movie
The Writer
California Typewriter
2017Movie
Self
Never Here
2017Movie
Paul Stark
In Dubious Battle
2016Movie
Mr. Anderson
Midnight Special
2016Movie
Calvin Meyer
Ithaca
2015Movie
Willie Grogan
Bloodline
2015TV
Robert Rayburn
Cold in July
2014Movie
Russell
Klondike
2014TV
Father Judge
August: Osage County
2013Movie
Beverly Weston
Out of the Furnace
2013Movie
Gerald 'Red' Baze
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013Movie
Self
Mud
2013Movie
Tom
Savannah
2013Movie
Mr. Stubbs
Shepard & Dark
2012Movie
Self
Killing Them Softly
2012Movie
Dillon
Darling Companion
2012Movie
Sheriff Morris
Safe House
2012Movie
Harlan Whitford
Blackthorn
2011Movie
James Blackthorn
Inhale
2010Movie
James Harrison
Fair Game
2010Movie
Sam Plame
Brothers
2009Movie
Hank Cahill
Felon
2008Movie
Gordon
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008Movie
Self
The Accidental Husband
2008Movie
Wilder
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007Movie
Self
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007Movie
Frank James
Ruffian
2007Movie
Frank Whiteley
Charlotte's Web
2006Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Return
2006Movie
Ed Mills
Walker Payne
2006Movie
Syrus
Bandidas
2006Movie
Bill Buck
Don't Come Knocking
2005Movie
Howard
Stealth
2005Movie
George Cummings
Trudell
2005Movie
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
The Notebook
2004Movie
Frank Calhoun
Blind Horizon
2003Movie
Sheriff Jack Kolb
This So-Called Disaster
2003Movie
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002Movie
Self
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
2002Movie
Self
Leo
2002Movie
Vic
Black Hawk Down
2001Movie
Garrison
Shot in the Heart
2001Movie
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Swordfish
2001Movie
Senator Reisman
After the Harvest
2001Movie
Caleb Gare
The Pledge
2001Movie
Eric Pollack
Kurosawa
2000Movie
Narrator (voice)
All the Pretty Horses
2000Movie
J.C. Franklin
One Kill
2000Movie
Maj. Nelson Gray
Hamlet
2000Movie
Ghost
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999Movie
Arthur Chambers
Dash and Lilly
1999Movie
Dashiell Hammett
Purgatory
1999Movie
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Curtain Call
1998Movie
Will Dodge
The Only Thrill
1997Movie
Reece McHenry
Lily Dale
1996Movie
Pete Davenport
Streets of Laredo
1995TV
Pea Eye Parker
The Good Old Boys
1995Movie
Tarnell
Dear Antonioni
1995Movie
Self
Safe Passage
1994Movie
Patrick
Made in the USA
1993Movie
Self
The Pelican Brief
1993Movie
Thomas Callahan
Thunderheart
1992Movie
Frank Coutelle
Defenseless
1991Movie
Det. Beutel
Voyager
1991Movie
Walter Faber
Bright Angel
1990Movie
Jack Russell
Steel Magnolias
1989Movie
Spud Jones
MaMa's Pushcart
1988Movie
Baby Boom
1987Movie
Dr. Jeff Cooper
Crimes of the Heart
1986Movie
Doc Porter
Fool for Love
1985Movie
Eddie
Country
1984Movie
Gil Ivy
The Right Stuff
1983Movie
Chuck Yeager
Frances
1982Movie
Harry York
Raggedy Man
1981Movie
Bailey
Resurrection
1980Movie
Cal
Days of Heaven
1978Movie
The Farmer
Renaldo and Clara
1978Movie
Rodeo
Great Performances
1971TV
Self
Brand X
1970Movie
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968TV
Self (uncredited)
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Nominee