Sam Shepard
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.
Filmography · 81
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee
Great Performances
1971 · Self
The Notebook
2004 · Frank Calhoun
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Self (uncredited)
Black Hawk Down
2001 · MG William F. Garrison
Bloodline
2015 · Robert Rayburn
Brothers
2009 · Hank Cahill
Swordfish
2001 · Senator Reisman
Safe House
2012 · Harlan Whitford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Frank James
Steel Magnolias
1989 · Spud Jones
Klondike
2014 · Father Judge
The Pelican Brief
1993 · Thomas Callahan
Charlotte's Web
2006 · Narrator (voice)
Mud
2013 · Tom
The Right Stuff
1983 · Chuck Yeager
Stealth
2005 · George Cummings
Bandidas
2006 · Bill Buck
August: Osage County
2013 · Beverly Weston
Out of the Furnace
2013 · Gerald 'Red' Baze
Fair Game
2010 · Sam Plame
Killing Them Softly
2012 · Dillon
Baby Boom
1987 · Dr. Jeff Cooper
The Pledge
2001 · Eric Pollack
Felon
2008 · Gordon
Midnight Special
2016 · Calvin Meyer
Days of Heaven
1978 · The Farmer
The Accidental Husband
2008 · Wilder
Streets of Laredo
1995 · Pea Eye Parker
Thunderheart
1992 · Frank Coutelle
All the Pretty Horses
2000 · J.C. Franklin
Cold in July
2014 · Russell
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 · Arthur Chambers
In Dubious Battle
2016 · Mr. Anderson
Darling Companion
2012 · Sheriff Morris
Don't Come Knocking
2005 · Howard
Hamlet
2000 · Ghost
Lily Dale
1996 · Pete Davenport
Purgatory
1999 · Sheriff Forrest / Wild...
Blackthorn
2011 · James Blackthorn
Ithaca
2015 · Willie Grogan
Frances
1982 · Harry York
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 · The Writer
Never Here
2017 · Paul Stark
Crimes of the Heart
1986 · Doc Porter
Blind Horizon
2003 · Sheriff Jack Kolb
The Return
2006 · Ed Mills
Trudell
2005 · Self - Playwright, Act...
Dash and Lilly
1999 · Dashiell Hammett
The Only Thrill
1997 · Reece McHenry
California Typewriter
2017 · Self
Kurosawa
2000 · Narrator (voice)
Inhale
2010 · James Harrison
Resurrection
1980 · Cal
Dear Antonioni
1995 · Self
Defenseless
1991 · Det. Beutel
Safe Passage
1994 · Patrick
Voyager
1991 · Walter Faber
The Good Old Boys
1995 · Tarnell
Bright Angel
1990 · Jack Russell
Curtain Call
1998 · Will Dodge
Savannah
2013 · Mr. Stubbs
Raggedy Man
1981 · Bailey
Brand X
1970
This So-Called Disaster
2003 · Self
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013 · Self
Leo
2002 · Vic
Walker Payne
2006 · Syrus
Made in the USA
1993 · Self
Country
1984 · Gil Ivy
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008 · Self
Fool for Love
1985 · Eddie
Ruffian
2007 · Frank Whiteley
Renaldo and Clara
1978 · Rodeo
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · Self
After the Harvest
2001 · Caleb Gare
One Kill
2000 · Maj. Nelson Gray
Shot in the Heart
2001 · Frank Gilmore, Sr.
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007 · Self
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Shepard & Dark
2012 · Self