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Sam Shepard

Actor, Writer, Director, Composer, Additional Credits
Born November 5, 1943Died July 27, 2017 (73 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Mud
  • Killing Them Softly
  • August: Osage County
  • Fair Game
  • Cold in July
  • The Accidental Husband
  • Voyager
  • Streets of Laredo
  • The Only Thrill
  • Lily Dale

Known For

  • Paris, Texas
  • The Right Stuff
  • Black Hawk Down
  • Mud
  • Safe House
  • Brothers
  • The Pelican Brief
  • Swordfish
  • Out of the Furnace
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Days of Heaven
  • Killing Them Softly
  • Fair Game
  • The Pledge
  • Stealth
  • Cold in July
  • Midnight Special
  • Blackthorn
  • Baby Boom
  • Felon
  • Thunderheart
  • Steel Magnolias
  • August: Osage County
  • Don't Come Knocking

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2022
    Bonnie · as Garrison
    2019
    Rolling Thunder Revue · as The Writer
    2017
    Never Here · as Paul Stark
    2016
    In Dubious Battle · as Mr. Anderson
    2016
    Midnight Special · as Calvin Meyer
    2015
    Ithaca · as Willie Grogan
    2015
    Bloodline (TV Series) · as Robert Rayburn
    2014
    Cold in July · as Russell
    2014
    Klondike (2014) (TV Series) · as Father Judge
    2013
    August: Osage County · as Beverly Weston
    2013
    Out of the Furnace · as Gerald 'red' Baze
    2013
    Savannah · as Mr. Stubbs
    2012
    Mud · as Tom
    2012
    2012
    Darling Companion · as Sheriff Morris
    2012
    Safe House · as Harlan Whitford
    2011
    Blackthorn · as James Blackthorn
    2010
    Inhale · as James Harrison
    2010
    Fair Game · as Sam Plame
    2009
    Brothers · as Hank Cahill
    2008
    Felon · as Gordon
    2008
    2007
    2007
    Ruffian · as Frank Whiteley
    2006
    Charlotte's Web · as Narrator (voice)
    2006
    Walker Payne · as Syrus
    2006
    Bandidas · as Bill Buck
    2005
    Don't Come Knocking · as Howard
    2005
    Stealth · as George Cummings
    2005
    The Return · as Ed Mills
    2004
    The Notebook · as Frank Calhoun
    2003
    Blind Horizon · as Sheriff Jack Kolb
    2002
    Leo · as Vic
    2001
    Black Hawk Down · as Mg William F. Garrison
    2001
    Shot in the Heart · as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
    2001
    Swordfish · as Senator Reisman
    2001
    After the Harvest · as Caleb Gare
    2001
    The Pledge · as Eric Pollack
    2000
    All the Pretty Horses · as J.c. Franklin
    2000
    One Kill · as Maj. Nelson Gray
    2000
    Hamlet · as Ghost
    1999
    Snow Falling on Cedars · as Arthur Chambers
    1999
    Dash and Lilly · as Dashiell Hammett
    1999
    Purgatory · as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
    1998
    It All Came True · as Will Dodge
    1997
    The Only Thrill · as Reece Mchenry
    1996
    Lily Dale · as Pete Davenport
    1995
    Streets of Laredo (TV Series) · as Pea Eye Parker
    1995
    The Good Old Boys · as Tarnell
    1994
    Safe Passage · as Patrick
    1993
    The Pelican Brief · as Thomas Callahan
    1992
    Thunderheart · as Frank Coutelle
    1991
    Defenseless · as Det. Beutel
    1991
    Voyager · as Walter Faber
    1990
    Bright Angel · as Jack Russell
    1989
    Steel Magnolias · as Spud Jones
    1987
    Baby Boom · as Dr. Jeff Cooper
    1986
    Crimes of the Heart · as Doc Porter
    1985
    Fool for Love · as Eddie
    1984
    Country · as Gil Ivy
    1983
    The Right Stuff · as Chuck Yeager
    1982
    Frances · as Harry York
    1981
    Raggedy Man · as Bailey
    1980
    Resurrection · as Cal
    1978
    Days of Heaven · as The Farmer
    1978
    Renaldo and Clara · as Rodeo
    1970

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