Sam Shepard
83 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 5, 1943
- Died
- Jul 27, 2017 (age 73)
- 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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Sam Shepard: movies and TV shows
Acting (68)
- 2019
- 2017 Never Here
as Paul Stark
- 2016 In Dubious Battle
as Mr. Anderson
- 2016 Midnight Special
as Calvin Meyer
- 2015 Ithaca
as Willie Grogan
- 2015
- 2014 Cold in July
as Russell
- 2014
- 2013 August: Osage County
as Beverly Weston
- 2013 Out of the Furnace
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
- 2013 Mud
as Tom
- 2013 Savannah
as Mr. Stubbs
- 2012 Killing Them Softly
as Dillon
- 2012 Darling Companion
as Sheriff Morris
- 2012 Safe House
as Harlan Whitford
- 2011 Blackthorn
as James Blackthorn
- 2010 Inhale
as James Harrison
- 2010 Fair Game
as Sam Plame
- 2009 Brothers
as Hank Cahill
- 2008 Felon
as Gordon
- 2008 The Accidental Husband
as Wilder
- 2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Frank James
- 2007 Ruffian
as Frank Whiteley
- 2006 Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 The Return
as Ed Mills
- 2006 Walker Payne
as Syrus
- 2006 Bandidas
as Bill Buck
- 2005 Don't Come Knocking
as Howard
- 2005 Stealth
as George Cummings
- 2004 The Notebook
as Frank Calhoun
- 2003 Blind Horizon
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
- 2002 Leo
as Vic
- 2001 Black Hawk Down
as Garrison
- 2001 Shot in the Heart
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
- 2001 Swordfish
as Senator Reisman
- 2001 After the Harvest
as Caleb Gare
- 2001 The Pledge
as Eric Pollack
- 2000 Kurosawa
as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 All the Pretty Horses
as J.C. Franklin
- 2000 One Kill
as Maj. Nelson Gray
- 2000 Hamlet
as Ghost
- 1999 Snow Falling on Cedars
as Arthur Chambers
- 1999 Dash and Lilly
as Dashiell Hammett
- 1999 Purgatory
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
- 1998 Curtain Call
as Will Dodge
- 1997 The Only Thrill
as Reece McHenry
- 1996 Lily Dale
as Pete Davenport
- 1995
- 1995 The Good Old Boys
as Tarnell
- 1994 Safe Passage
as Patrick
- 1993 The Pelican Brief
as Thomas Callahan
- 1992 Thunderheart
as Frank Coutelle
- 1991 Defenseless
as Det. Beutel
- 1991 Voyager
as Walter Faber
- 1990 Bright Angel
as Jack Russell
- 1989 Steel Magnolias
as Spud Jones
- 1988
- 1987 Baby Boom
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
- 1986 Crimes of the Heart
as Doc Porter
- 1985 Fool for Love
as Eddie
- 1984 Country
as Gil Ivy
- 1983 The Right Stuff
as Chuck Yeager
- 1982 Frances
as Harry York
- 1981 Raggedy Man
as Bailey
- 1980 Resurrection
as Cal
- 1978 Days of Heaven
as The Farmer
- 1978 Renaldo and Clara
as Rodeo
- 1970
Behind the camera (23)
- Upcoming Ages of the Moon
Theatre Play
- 2020 Tesla
In Memory Of
- 2016 Buried Child
Writer
- 2016 True West
Writer
- 2013 The Assassination of President Kennedy
Acting Double
- 2005 Don't Come Knocking
Writer
- 2004 See You in My Dreams
Short Story, Writer
- 2002 True West
Writer
- 1999 Simpatico
Theatre Play
- 1994 Curse of the Starving Class
Writer
- 1994 Silent Tongue
Director, Writer
- 1988 Far North
Director, Writer
- 1985 Fool for Love
Screenplay, Theatre Play
- 1985
- 1984 Paris, Texas
Writer
- 1984 True West
Writer
- 1982 Tongues
Writer, Music
- 1982
- 1981 Savage/Love
Writer
- 1978 Renaldo and Clara
Writer
- 1972 Oh! Calcutta!
Writer
- 1970 Zabriskie Point
Screenplay
- 1969 Me and My Brother
Writer
Talk shows and appearances (14)
- 2017
- 2013
- 2012
- 2008
- 2007
- 2005
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 1995
- 1993
- 1971 Great Performances
1 episode
- 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
1 episode