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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.
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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Sam Shepard 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 | |
| 2012 | Killing Them Softly · as Dillon |
| 2012 | Darling Companion · as Sheriff Morris |
| 2012 | Safe House · as Harlan Whitford |
| 2011 | Blackthorn · as James Blackthorn |
| 2010 | Inhale · as James Harrison |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | Brothers · as Hank Cahill |
| 2008 | Felon · as Gordon |
| 2008 | The Accidental Husband · as Wilder |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford · as Frank James |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 2016 | |
| 2014 | |
| 2012 | Welcome To The Basement (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 2005 | |
| 2002 | |
| 1994 | |
| 1993 | |
| 1988 | |
| 1985 | Fool for Love · as Screenplay |
| 1984 | Alive from Off Center (TV Series) |
| 1984 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1978 | |
| 1972 | |
| 1970 | Zabriskie Point · as Screenplay |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1968 |
| 2022 | Patti Smith: Electric Poet · as Self |
| 2019 | It Takes a Lunatic · as Self |
| 2018 | The Oscars · as Self - Writer, Actor (in Memoriam) |
| 2016 | California Typewriter · as Self |
| 2012 | Gold Rush: The Dirt (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | Shepard & Dark · as Self |
| 2012 | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction · as Self |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Patti Smith: Dream of Life · as Self |
| 2006 | Wanderlust · as Self |
| 2006 | The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose · as Self |
| 2005 | Trudell · as Self - Playwright, Actor (thunderheart) |
| 2003 | This So-Called Disaster · as Self |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | |
| 1990 | Intimate Portrait (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | The 62nd Annual Academy Awards · as Self |
| 1988 | P.O.V. (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | The 58th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1975 | Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) · as Self (uncredited) |
| 1956 | Tony Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Nominee |
| 1993 | |
| 1988 |
| 1982 |
| 2004 | See You in My Dreams · as Short Story |
| 1999 | Simpatico · as Theatre Play |
| 1980 | American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Play |
| 1964 | NET Playhouse (TV Series) · as Play: "fourteen Hundred Thousand" |