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
Charlotte's Web
Narrator (voice)
Killing Them Softly
Dillon
Safe House
Harlan Whitford
The Pelican Brief
Thomas Callahan
Brothers
Hank Cahill
Swordfish
Senator Reisman
Steel Magnolias
Spud Jones
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank James
Baby Boom
Dr. Jeff Cooper
August: Osage County
Beverly Weston
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
Felon
Gordon
Days of Heaven
The Farmer
Out of the Furnace
Gerald 'Red' Baze
Cold in July
Russell
The Right Stuff
Chuck Yeager
Thunderheart
Frank Coutelle
The Accidental Husband
Wilder
All the Pretty Horses
J.C. Franklin
Bandidas
Bill Buck
The Pledge
Eric Pollack
Mud
Tom
Stealth
George Cummings
Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur Chambers
Fair Game
Sam Plame
The Return
Ed Mills
Crimes of the Heart
Doc Porter
Darling Companion
Sheriff Morris
Curtain Call
Will Dodge
Purgatory
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
Blind Horizon
Sheriff Jack Kolb
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
The Good Old Boys
Tarnell
Defenseless
Det. Beutel
Safe Passage
Patrick
Frances
Harry York
Raggedy Man
Bailey
The Only Thrill
Reece McHenry
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
Bright Angel
Jack Russell
Voyager
Walter Faber
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
Ithaca
Willie Grogan
Resurrection
Cal
Hamlet
Ghost
Leo
Vic
Savannah
Mr. Stubbs
Never Here
Paul Stark
Inhale
James Harrison
Walker Payne
Syrus
One Kill
Maj. Nelson Gray
Country
Gil Ivy
Fool for Love
Eddie
Renaldo and Clara
Rodeo
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Lily Dale
Pete Davenport
Kurosawa
Narrator (voice)
Brand X
1970
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Dash and Lilly
Dashiell Hammett
TV Shows (3)
Self / Appearances (14)
Great Performances
Self · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited) · 1 eps
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
Dear Antonioni
Self
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
California Typewriter
Self
Made in the USA
Self
This So-Called Disaster
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
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
Zabriskie Point
Screenplay
Alive from Off Center
Writer
Don't Come Knocking
Writer
Simpatico
Theatre Play
Silent Tongue
Writer
Oh! Calcutta!
Writer
Curse of the Starving Class
Writer
Me and My Brother
Writer
Fool for Love
Screenplay
Fool for Love
Theatre Play
Renaldo and Clara
Writer
See You in My Dreams
Short Story
See You in My Dreams
Writer
True West
Writer
Far North
Writer
True West
Writer
Buried Child
Writer
True West
Writer
Savage/Love
Writer
