Sam Shepard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 5, 1943
- Died
- July 27, 2017
- Birthplace
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography
- Ages of the Moon
Ages of the Moon TBA
Theatre Play
Tesla 2020
In Memory Of
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 2019
as The Writer
California Typewriter 2017
as Self
Never Here 2017
as Paul Stark
Buried Child 2016
Writer
In Dubious Battle 2016
as Mr. Anderson
Midnight Special 2016
as Calvin Meyer
True West 2016
Writer
Ithaca 2015
as Willie Grogan
Cold in July 2014
as Russell
August: Osage County 2013
as Beverly Weston
The Assassination of President Kennedy 2013
Acting Double
Out of the Furnace 2013
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction 2013
as Self
Mud 2013
as Tom
Savannah 2013
as Mr. Stubbs
Shepard & Dark 2012
as Self
Killing Them Softly 2012
as Dillon
Darling Companion 2012
as Sheriff Morris
Safe House 2012
as Harlan Whitford
Blackthorn 2011
as James Blackthorn
Inhale 2010
as James Harrison
Fair Game 2010
as Sam Plame
Brothers 2009
as Hank Cahill
Felon 2008
as Gordon
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur 2008
as Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life 2008
as Self
The Accidental Husband 2008
as Wilder
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose 2007
as Self
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007
as Frank James
Ruffian 2007
as Frank Whiteley
Charlotte's Web 2006
as Narrator (voice)
The Return 2006
as Ed Mills
Walker Payne 2006
as Syrus
Bandidas 2006
as Bill Buck
Don't Come Knocking 2005
as Howard, Writer
Stealth 2005
as George Cummings
Trudell 2005
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
The Notebook 2004
as Frank Calhoun
See You in My Dreams 2004
Short Story, Writer
Blind Horizon 2003
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
This So-Called Disaster 2003
as Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick 2002
as Self
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' 2002
as Self
True West 2002
Writer
Leo 2002
as Vic
Black Hawk Down 2001
as Garrison
Shot in the Heart 2001
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Swordfish 2001
as Senator Reisman
After the Harvest 2001
as Caleb Gare
The Pledge 2001
as Eric Pollack
Kurosawa 2000
as Narrator (voice)
All the Pretty Horses 2000
as J.C. Franklin
One Kill 2000
as Maj. Nelson Gray
Hamlet 2000
as Ghost
Snow Falling on Cedars 1999
as Arthur Chambers
Simpatico 1999
Theatre Play
Dash and Lilly 1999
as Dashiell Hammett
Purgatory 1999
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Curtain Call 1998
as Will Dodge
The Only Thrill 1997
as Reece McHenry
Lily Dale 1996
as Pete Davenport
The Good Old Boys 1995
as Tarnell
Dear Antonioni 1995
as Self
Safe Passage 1994
as Patrick
Curse of the Starving Class 1994
Writer
Silent Tongue 1994
Director, Writer
Made in the USA 1993
as Self
The Pelican Brief 1993
as Thomas Callahan
Thunderheart 1992
as Frank Coutelle
Defenseless 1991
as Det. Beutel
Voyager 1991
as Walter Faber
Bright Angel 1990
as Jack Russell
Steel Magnolias 1989
as Spud Jones
Far North 1988
Director, Writer
MaMa's Pushcart 1988
Actor
Baby Boom 1987
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
Crimes of the Heart 1986
as Doc Porter
Fool for Love 1985
as Eddie, Theatre Play, Screenplay
Country 1984
as Gil Ivy
Paris, Texas 1984
Writer
True West 1984
Writer
The Right Stuff 1983
as Chuck Yeager
Frances 1982
as Harry York
- Tongues
Tongues 1982
Music, Writer
Raggedy Man 1981
as Bailey
Savage/Love 1981
Writer
Resurrection 1980
as Cal
Days of Heaven 1978
as The Farmer
Renaldo and Clara 1978
as Rodeo, Writer
Oh! Calcutta! 1972
Writer
Brand X 1970
Actor
Zabriskie Point 1970
Screenplay
Me and My Brother 1969
Writer
Credits from TMDB.