Sam Shepard
Acting
Born: November 5, 1943 · Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Died: July 27, 2017 (aged 73)
Highest Rated
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
The Notebook
2004
Black Hawk Down
2001
Brothers
2009
Safe House
2012
Mud
2013
Swordfish
2001
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Killing Them Softly
2012
Paris, Texas
1984
Out of the Furnace
2013
Midnight Special
2016
The Pelican Brief
1993
Photos (8)
Movies (65)
The Notebook
Frank Calhoun
Black Hawk Down
Garrison
Steel Magnolias
Spud Jones
Swordfish
Senator Reisman
Brothers
Hank Cahill
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank James
The Pelican Brief
Thomas Callahan
Safe House
Harlan Whitford
Charlotte's Web
Narrator (voice)
The Pledge
Eric Pollack
Stealth
George Cummings
Out of the Furnace
Gerald 'Red' Baze
August: Osage County
Beverly Weston
Mud
Tom
Fair Game
Sam Plame
The Right Stuff
Chuck Yeager
Killing Them Softly
Dillon
Thunderheart
Frank Coutelle
The Accidental Husband
Wilder
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
Cold in July
Russell
Days of Heaven
The Farmer
Baby Boom
Dr. Jeff Cooper
All the Pretty Horses
J.C. Franklin
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
Felon
Gordon
Bandidas
Bill Buck
Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur Chambers
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
The Return
Ed Mills
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
Darling Companion
Sheriff Morris
Blind Horizon
Sheriff Jack Kolb
Frances
Harry York
Resurrection
Cal
Purgatory
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
Inhale
James Harrison
Hamlet
Ghost
Ithaca
Willie Grogan
Fool for Love
Eddie
Crimes of the Heart
Doc Porter
Dash and Lilly
Dashiell Hammett
Never Here
Paul Stark
Lily Dale
Pete Davenport
Kurosawa
Narrator (voice)
Curtain Call
Will Dodge
Safe Passage
Patrick
Raggedy Man
Bailey
Voyager
Walter Faber
Defenseless
Det. Beutel
Leo
Vic
The Only Thrill
Reece McHenry
The Good Old Boys
Tarnell
Savannah
Mr. Stubbs
Bright Angel
Jack Russell
Brand X
1970
Walker Payne
Syrus
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Country
Gil Ivy
Renaldo and Clara
Rodeo
One Kill
Maj. Nelson Gray
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
TV Shows (3)
Self / Appearances (13)
Great Performances
Self · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited) · 1 eps
California Typewriter
Self
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
Dear Antonioni
Self
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
Made in the USA
Self
This So-Called Disaster
Self
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self
Shepard & Dark
Self
Directing (2)
Writing (22)
American Playhouse
Writer
American Playhouse
Theatre Play
Paris, Texas
Writer
Alive from Off Center
Writer
Zabriskie Point
Screenplay
Don't Come Knocking
Writer
Simpatico
Theatre Play
Fool for Love
Screenplay
Fool for Love
Theatre Play
Oh! Calcutta!
Writer
Silent Tongue
Writer
Curse of the Starving Class
Writer
Far North
Writer
See You in My Dreams
Short Story
See You in My Dreams
Writer
Me and My Brother
Writer
True West
Writer
Buried Child
Writer
Renaldo and Clara
Writer
True West
Writer
True West
Writer
Savage/Love
Writer
