About

Known credits:
103
Birthday:
1943-11-05
Place of birth:
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Website:
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Sam Shepard

Overview

Samuel Shepard Rogers III 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

Acting
2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Actor The Writer 61
Fair
2017 California Typewriter Actor Self 59
Average
2017 Never Here Actor Paul Stark 58
Average
2016 In Dubious Battle Actor Mr. Anderson 58
Average
2016 Midnight Special Actor Calvin Meyer 61
Fair
2015 Ithaca Actor Willie Grogan 57
Average
2014 Cold in July Actor Russell 62
Fair
2014 Klondike Actor Father Judge 70
Good
2013 August: Osage County Actor Beverly Weston 66
Fair
2013 Out of the Furnace Actor Gerald 'Red' Baze 64
Fair
2013 Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction Actor Self 59
Average
2013 Mud Actor Tom 69
Fair
2013 Savannah Actor Mr. Stubbs 58
Average
2012 Shepard & Dark Actor Self 59
Average
2012 Killing Them Softly Actor Dillon 59
Average
2012 Darling Companion Actor Sheriff Morris 57
Average
2012 Safe House Actor Harlan Whitford 64
Fair
2011 Blackthorn Actor James Blackthorn 61
Fair
2010 Inhale Actor James Harrison 58
Average
2010 Fair Game Actor Sam Plame 62
Fair
2009 Brothers Actor Hank Cahill 71
Good
2008 Felon Actor Gordon 66
Fair
2008 Patti Smith: Dream of Life Actor Self 58
Average
2008 The Accidental Husband Actor Wilder 56
Average
2007 The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose Actor Self N/A
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2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Actor Frank James 68
Fair
2007 Ruffian Actor Frank Whiteley 59
Average
2006 Charlotte's Web Actor Narrator (voice) 61
Fair
2006 The Return Actor Ed Mills 59
Average
2006 Walker Payne Actor Syrus 58
Average
2006 Bandidas Actor Bill Buck 59
Average
2005 Don't Come Knocking Actor Howard 59
Average
2005 Stealth Actor George Cummings 56
Average
2005 Trudell Actor Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart) 59
Average
2004 The Notebook Actor Frank Calhoun 78
Good
2003 Blind Horizon Actor Sheriff Jack Kolb 58
Average
2003 This So-Called Disaster Actor Self 58
Average
2002 Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick Actor Self 59
Average
2002 Leo Actor Vic 58
Average
2001 Black Hawk Down Actor MG William F. Garrison 72
Good
2001 Shot in the Heart Actor Frank Gilmore, Sr. 58
Average
2001 Swordfish Actor Senator Reisman 61
Fair
2001 After the Harvest Actor Caleb Gare N/A
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2001 The Pledge Actor Eric Pollack 63
Fair
2000 Kurosawa Actor Narrator (voice) 58
Average
2000 All the Pretty Horses Actor J.C. Franklin 58
Average
2000 One Kill Actor Maj. Nelson Gray 59
Average
2000 Hamlet Actor Ghost 58
Average
1999 Snow Falling on Cedars Actor Arthur Chambers 59
Average
1999 Dash and Lilly Actor Dashiell Hammett 59
Average
1999 Purgatory Actor Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock 61
Fair
1998 Curtain Call Actor Will Dodge 58
Average
1997 The Only Thrill Actor Reece McHenry 58
Average
1996 Lily Dale Actor Pete Davenport 58
Average
1995 Streets of Laredo Actor Pea Eye Parker 67
Fair
1995 The Good Old Boys Actor Tarnell 58
Average
1995 Dear Antonioni Actor Self N/A
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1994 Safe Passage Actor Patrick 58
Average
1993 Made in the USA Actor Self 58
Average
1993 The Pelican Brief Actor Thomas Callahan 64
Fair
1992 Thunderheart Actor Frank Coutelle 60
Fair
1991 Defenseless Actor Det. Beutel 58
Average
1991 Voyager Actor Walter Faber 59
Average
1990 Bright Angel Actor Jack Russell 58
Average
1989 Steel Magnolias Actor Spud Jones 66
Fair
1988 MaMa's Pushcart Actor N/A
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1987 Baby Boom Actor Dr. Jeff Cooper 60
Fair
1986 Crimes of the Heart Actor Doc Porter 58
Average
1985 Fool for Love Actor Eddie 58
Average
1984 Country Actor Gil Ivy 59
Average
1983 The Right Stuff Actor Chuck Yeager 68
Fair
1982 Frances Actor Harry York 60
Fair
1981 Raggedy Man Actor Bailey 58
Average
1980 Resurrection Actor Cal 59
Average
1978 Days of Heaven Actor The Farmer 69
Fair
1978 Renaldo and Clara Actor Rodeo 59
Average
1970 Brand X Actor 59
Average

Directing
1993 Silent Tongue Directing Director 58
Average
1988 Far North Directing Director 58
Average

Writing
2016 Buried Child Writing Writer N/A
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2016 True West Writing Writer N/A
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2005 Don't Come Knocking Writing Writer 59
Average
2004 See You in My Dreams Writing Short Story N/A
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2004 See You in My Dreams Writing Writer N/A
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2002 True West Writing Writer 59
Average
1999 Simpatico Writing Theatre Play 58
Average
1994 Curse of the Starving Class Writing Writer 58
Average
1993 Silent Tongue Writing Writer 58
Average
1988 Far North Writing Writer 58
Average
1985 Fool for Love Writing Theatre Play 58
Average
1985 Fool for Love Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1984 Paris, Texas Writing Writer 76
Good
1984 True West Writing Writer 58
Average
1982 Tongues Writing Writer 59
Average
1981 Savage/Love Writing Writer N/A
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1978 Renaldo and Clara Writing Writer 59
Average
1972 Oh! Calcutta! Writing Writer 58
Average
1970 Zabriskie Point Writing Screenplay 64
Fair
1969 Me and My Brother Writing Writer 58
Average
Ages of the Moon Writing Theatre Play N/A
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Sound
1982 Tongues Sound Music 59
Average

Crew
2020 Tesla Crew In Memory Of 58
Average
2013 The Assassination of President Kennedy Crew Acting Double 59
Average