Sam Shepard
Known for Acting · 81 credits
- Born
- 1943-11-05
- Died
- 2017-07-27
- Place of birth
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Samuel Shepard Rogers · Сем Шепард · سم شپارد · سام شپارد
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
TV Shows (6)
Movies (75)
Black Hawk Down
2001
as MG William F. Garrison
The Notebook
2004
as Frank Calhoun
Swordfish
2001
as Senator Reisman
Mud
2013
as Tom
Brothers
2009
as Hank Cahill
Steel Magnolias
1989
as Spud Jones
Safe House
2012
as Harlan Whitford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
as Frank James
The Pelican Brief
1993
as Thomas Callahan
Stealth
2005
as George Cummings
Charlotte's Web
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Felon
2008
as Gordon
Bandidas
2006
as Bill Buck
The Right Stuff
1983
as Chuck Yeager
The Pledge
2001
as Eric Pollack
Out of the Furnace
2013
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
Midnight Special
2016
as Calvin Meyer
Killing Them Softly
2012
as Dillon
The Accidental Husband
2008
as Wilder
Days of Heaven
1978
as The Farmer
Fair Game
2010
as Sam Plame
In Dubious Battle
2016
as Mr. Anderson
Thunderheart
1992
as Frank Coutelle
Blackthorn
2011
as James Blackthorn
August: Osage County
2013
as Beverly Weston
Purgatory
1999
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
All the Pretty Horses
2000
as J.C. Franklin
Cold in July
2014
as Russell
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
as Arthur Chambers
Curtain Call
1998
as Will Dodge
Frances
1982
as Harry York
Baby Boom
1987
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
Inhale
2010
as James Harrison
Blind Horizon
2003
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
as The Writer
The Return
2006
as Ed Mills
Leo
2002
as Vic
Voyager
1991
as Walter Faber
Ithaca
2015
as Willie Grogan
Hamlet
2000
as Ghost
Bright Angel
1990
as Jack Russell
Made in the USA
1993
as Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self
Kurosawa
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Don't Come Knocking
2005
as Howard
Darling Companion
2012
as Sheriff Morris
Safe Passage
1994
as Patrick
The Good Old Boys
1995
as Tarnell
California Typewriter
2017
as Self
Never Here
2017
as Paul Stark
Savannah
2013
as Mr. Stubbs
Crimes of the Heart
1986
as Doc Porter
Resurrection
1980
as Cal
Raggedy Man
1981
as Bailey
Defenseless
1991
as Det. Beutel
Country
1984
as Gil Ivy
Shot in the Heart
2001
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Trudell
2005
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
as Self
Ruffian
2007
as Frank Whiteley
The Only Thrill
1997
as Reece McHenry
Walker Payne
2006
as Syrus
After the Harvest
2001
as Caleb Gare
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
as Self
Renaldo and Clara
1978
as Rodeo
This So-Called Disaster
2003
as Self
One Kill
2000
as Maj. Nelson Gray
Lily Dale
1996
as Pete Davenport
Dash and Lilly
1999
as Dashiell Hammett
Fool for Love
1985
as Eddie
Shepard & Dark
2012
as Self
Dear Antonioni
1995
as Self
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007
as Self
Brand X
1970
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
About 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. H… With 81 credits spanning from 1956 to 2019, Sam Shepard has appeared in 75 films and 6 TV shows.
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Most Popular Sam Shepard Movies
- Black Hawk Down (2001) — as MG William F. Garrison
- The Notebook (2004) — as Frank Calhoun
- Swordfish (2001) — as Senator Reisman
- Mud (2013) — as Tom
- Brothers (2009) — as Hank Cahill
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