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
- Never Here as Paul Stark
- California Typewriter as Self
2016
- Midnight Special as Calvin Meyer
- In Dubious Battle as Mr. Anderson
- Buried Child ... (Writer)
- True West ... (Writer)
2014
- Klondike as Father Judge
- Cold in July as Russell
2013
- Mud as Tom
- Out of the Furnace as Gerald 'Red' Baze
- August: Osage County as Beverly Weston
- Savannah as Mr. Stubbs
- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
- The Assassination of President Kennedy ... (Acting Double)
2012
- Safe House as Harlan Whitford
- Killing Them Softly as Dillon
- Darling Companion as Sheriff Morris
- Shepard & Dark as Self
2011
- Blackthorn as James Blackthorn
2009
- Brothers as Hank Cahill
2008
- Felon as Gordon
- The Accidental Husband as Wilder
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life as Self
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
- Charlotte's Web as Narrator (voice)
- Bandidas as Bill Buck
- The Return as Ed Mills
- Walker Payne as Syrus
2005
- Stealth as George Cummings
- Don't Come Knocking as Howard
- Trudell as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
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
- Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- True West ... (Writer)
2001
- Black Hawk Down as MG William F. Garrison
- Swordfish as Senator Reisman
- The Pledge as Eric Pollack
- Shot in the Heart as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
- After the Harvest as Caleb Gare
2000
- All the Pretty Horses as J.C. Franklin
- Hamlet as Ghost
- Kurosawa as Narrator (voice)
- One Kill as Maj. Nelson Gray
1999
- Purgatory as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
- Snow Falling on Cedars as Arthur Chambers
- Dash and Lilly as Dashiell Hammett
- Simpatico ... (Theatre Play)
1998
- Curtain Call as Will Dodge
1997
- The Only Thrill as Reece McHenry
1996
- Lily Dale as Pete Davenport
1995
- Streets of Laredo as Pea Eye Parker
- The Good Old Boys as Tarnell
- Dear Antonioni as Self
1994
- Safe Passage as Patrick
- Silent Tongue ... (Director)
- Curse of the Starving Class ... (Writer)
1993
- 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
- Paris, Texas ... (Writer)
- Country as Gil Ivy
- True West ... (Writer)
1983
- The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager
1981
- Raggedy Man as Bailey
- Savage/Love ... (Writer)
1980
- Resurrection as Cal
1978
- Days of Heaven as The Farmer
- Renaldo and Clara as Rodeo
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