Sam Shepard
- Acting
- November 5, 1943 · Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
- July 27, 2017
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Tesla · In Memory Of
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese · The Writer
- California Typewriter · Self
- Never Here · Paul Stark
- Buried Child · Writer
- In Dubious Battle · Mr. Anderson
- Midnight Special · Calvin Meyer
- True West · Writer
- Ithaca · Willie Grogan
- Bloodline · Robert Rayburn
- Cold in July · Russell
- Klondike · Father Judge
- August: Osage County · Beverly Weston
- The Assassination of President Kennedy · Acting Double
- Out of the Furnace · Gerald 'Red' Baze
- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction · Self
- Mud · Tom
- Savannah · Mr. Stubbs
- Shepard & Dark · Self
- Killing Them Softly · Dillon
- Darling Companion · Sheriff Morris
- Safe House · Harlan Whitford
- Blackthorn · James Blackthorn
- Inhale · James Harrison
- Fair Game · Sam Plame
- Brothers · Hank Cahill
- Felon · Gordon
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life · Self
- The Accidental Husband · Wilder
- The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose · Self
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford · Frank James
- Ruffian · Frank Whiteley
- Charlotte's Web · Narrator (Voice)
- The Return · Ed Mills
- Walker Payne · Syrus
- Bandidas · Bill Buck
- Don't Come Knocking · Howard, Writer
- Stealth · George Cummings
- Trudell · Self
- The Notebook · Frank Calhoun
- See You in My Dreams · Short Story, Writer
- Blind Horizon · Sheriff Jack Kolb
- This So-Called Disaster · Self
- Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick · Self
- The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' · Self
- True West · Writer
- Leo · Vic
- Black Hawk Down · Garrison
- Shot in the Heart · Frank Gilmore, Sr.
- Swordfish · Senator Reisman
- After the Harvest · Caleb Gare
- The Pledge · Eric Pollack
- Kurosawa · Narrator (Voice)
- All the Pretty Horses · J.C. Franklin
- One Kill · Maj. Nelson Gray
- Hamlet · Ghost
- Snow Falling on Cedars · Arthur Chambers
- Simpatico · Theatre Play
- Dash and Lilly · Dashiell Hammett
- Purgatory · Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
- Curtain Call · Will Dodge
- The Only Thrill · Reece McHenry
- Lily Dale · Pete Davenport
- Streets of Laredo · Pea Eye Parker
- The Good Old Boys · Tarnell
- Dear Antonioni · Self
- Safe Passage · Patrick
- Curse of the Starving Class · Writer
- Silent Tongue · Director, Writer
- Made in the USA · Self
- The Pelican Brief · Thomas Callahan
- Thunderheart · Frank Coutelle
- Defenseless · Det. Beutel
- Voyager · Walter Faber
- Bright Angel · Jack Russell
- Steel Magnolias · Spud Jones
- Far North · Director, Writer
- MaMa's Pushcart
- Baby Boom · Dr. Jeff Cooper
- Crimes of the Heart · Doc Porter