Sam Shepard
Born: 1943-11-05 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Died: 2017-07-27
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2020
- Tesla ... (In Memory Of)
2019
2017
- California Typewriter as Self
- Never Here as Paul Stark
2016
- Buried Child ... (Writer)
- True West ... (Writer)
- In Dubious Battle as Mr. Anderson
- Midnight Special as Calvin Meyer
2014
- Cold in July as Russell
- Klondike as Father Judge
2013
- Mud as Tom
- Savannah as Mr. Stubbs
- Out of the Furnace as Gerald 'Red' Baze
- August: Osage County as Beverly Weston
- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
- The Assassination of President Kennedy ... (Acting Double)
2012
- Safe House as Harlan Whitford
- Darling Companion as Sheriff Morris
- Killing Them Softly as Dillon
- Shepard & Dark as Self
2011
- Blackthorn as James Blackthorn
2009
- Brothers as Hank Cahill
2008
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life as Self
- Felon as Gordon
- The Accidental Husband as Wilder
2007
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Frank James
- Ruffian as Frank Whiteley
- The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose as Self
2006
- The Return as Ed Mills
- Walker Payne as Syrus
- Bandidas as Bill Buck
- Charlotte's Web as Narrator (voice)
2005
- Stealth as George Cummings
- Trudell as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
- Don't Come Knocking as Howard
2004
- The Notebook as Frank Calhoun
- See You in My Dreams ... (Short Story)
2003
- Blind Horizon as Sheriff Jack Kolb
- This So-Called Disaster as Self
2002
- Leo as Vic
- True West ... (Writer)
- Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
2001
- Black Hawk Down as MG William F. Garrison
- The Pledge as Eric Pollack
- Swordfish as Senator Reisman
- Shot in the Heart as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
- After the Harvest as Caleb Gare
2000
- Hamlet as Ghost
- Kurosawa as Narrator (voice)
- All the Pretty Horses as J.C. Franklin
- One Kill as Maj. Nelson Gray
1999
- Purgatory as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
- Simpatico ... (Theatre Play)
- Snow Falling on Cedars as Arthur Chambers
- Dash and Lilly as Dashiell Hammett
1998
- Curtain Call as Will Dodge
1997
- The Only Thrill as Reece McHenry
1996
- Lily Dale as Pete Davenport
1995
- The Good Old Boys as Tarnell
- Dear Antonioni as Self
- Streets of Laredo as Pea Eye Parker
1994
- Safe Passage as Patrick
- Curse of the Starving Class ... (Writer)
1993
- Silent Tongue ... (Director)
- The Pelican Brief as Thomas Callahan
- Made in the USA as Self
1992
- Thunderheart as Frank Coutelle
1991
- Voyager as Walter Faber
- Defenseless as Det. Beutel
1990
- Bright Angel as Jack Russell
1989
- Steel Magnolias as Spud Jones
1988
- Far North ... (Director)
- MaMa's Pushcart
1987
- Baby Boom as Dr. Jeff Cooper
1986
- Crimes of the Heart as Doc Porter
1985
- Alive from Off Center ... (Writer)
- Fool for Love as Eddie
1984
- True West ... (Writer)
- Country as Gil Ivy
- Paris, Texas ... (Writer)
1983
- The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager
1981
- Raggedy Man as Bailey
- Savage/Love ... (Writer)
1980
- Resurrection as Cal
1978
- Renaldo and Clara as Rodeo
- Days of Heaven as The Farmer
1972
- Oh! Calcutta! ... (Writer)
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1970
- Zabriskie Point ... (Screenplay)
- Brand X
1969
- Me and My Brother ... (Writer)
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee