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Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Acting November 5, 1943 (73 years old) July 27, 2017 Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

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.

Movies 77

The Notebook 7.9

The Notebook

as Frank Calhoun

2004
Black Hawk Down 7.4

Black Hawk Down

as Garrison

2001
Swordfish 6.3

Swordfish

as Senator Reisman

2001
All the Pretty Horses 5.7

All the Pretty Horses

as J.C. Franklin

2000
Brothers 7.3

Brothers

as Hank Cahill

2009
The Pelican Brief 6.6

The Pelican Brief

as Thomas Callahan

1993
In Dubious Battle 5.8

In Dubious Battle

as Mr. Anderson

2016
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 7.1

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

as Frank James

2007
Safe House 6.5

Safe House

as Harlan Whitford

2012
The Right Stuff 7.4

The Right Stuff

as Chuck Yeager

1983
Steel Magnolias 7.2

Steel Magnolias

as Spud Jones

1989
Charlotte's Web 6.2

Charlotte's Web

as Narrator (voice)

2006
Days of Heaven 7.5

Days of Heaven

as The Farmer

1978
August: Osage County 6.9

August: Osage County

as Beverly Weston

2013
Stealth 5.5

Stealth

as George Cummings

2005
Mud 7.1

Mud

as Tom

2013
Killing Them Softly 6.0

Killing Them Softly

as Dillon

2012
Midnight Special 6.3

Midnight Special

as Calvin Meyer

2016
Out of the Furnace 6.6

Out of the Furnace

as Gerald 'Red' Baze

2013
The Pledge 6.6

The Pledge

as Eric Pollack

2001
Bandidas 6.1

Bandidas

as Bill Buck

2006
Felon 7.1

Felon

as Gordon

2008
The Accidental Husband 5.6

The Accidental Husband

as Wilder

2008
Thunderheart 6.4

Thunderheart

as Frank Coutelle

1992
Fair Game 6.5

Fair Game

as Sam Plame

2010
Baby Boom 6.4

Baby Boom

as Dr. Jeff Cooper

1987
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 7.0

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

as The Writer

2019
Frances 6.9

Frances

as Harry York

1982
Don't Come Knocking 6.2

Don't Come Knocking

as Howard

2005
Cold in July 6.5

Cold in July

as Russell

2014
Purgatory 7.2

Purgatory

as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock

1999
Blind Horizon 5.8

Blind Horizon

as Sheriff Jack Kolb

2003
Snow Falling on Cedars 6.1

Snow Falling on Cedars

as Arthur Chambers

1999
The Return 6.0

The Return

as Ed Mills

2006
Blackthorn 6.6

Blackthorn

as James Blackthorn

2011
Crimes of the Heart 6.1

Crimes of the Heart

as Doc Porter

1986
Hamlet 5.8

Hamlet

as Ghost

2000
Ithaca 5.2

Ithaca

as Willie Grogan

2015
Darling Companion 5.0

Darling Companion

as Sheriff Morris

2012
Inhale 6.0

Inhale

as James Harrison

2010
Trudell 5.7

Trudell

as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)

2005
Walker Payne 4.8

Walker Payne

as Syrus

2006
Defenseless 4.9

Defenseless

as Det. Beutel

1991
Voyager 6.2

Voyager

as Walter Faber

1991
Bright Angel 4.8

Bright Angel

as Jack Russell

1990
Fool for Love 5.7

Fool for Love

as Eddie

1985
Shot in the Heart 6.0

Shot in the Heart

as Frank Gilmore, Sr.

2001
Raggedy Man 5.7

Raggedy Man

as Bailey

1981
Ruffian 8.0

Ruffian

as Frank Whiteley

2007
The Good Old Boys 6.7

The Good Old Boys

as Tarnell

1995
Savannah 6.0

Savannah

as Mr. Stubbs

2013
The Only Thrill 5.0

The Only Thrill

as Reece McHenry

1997
One Kill 7.2

One Kill

as Maj. Nelson Gray

2000
Country 6.5

Country

as Gil Ivy

1984
Safe Passage 6.0

Safe Passage

as Patrick

1994
Leo 6.1

Leo

as Vic

2002
Dash and Lilly 8.7

Dash and Lilly

as Dashiell Hammett

1999
Brand X 4.5

Brand X

1970
Never Here 4.9

Never Here

as Paul Stark

2017
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick 7.0

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

as Self

2002
Resurrection 6.5

Resurrection

as Cal

1980
Curtain Call 5.1

Curtain Call

as Will Dodge

1998
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction 6.9

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

as Self

2013
California Typewriter 6.9

California Typewriter

as Self

2017
Dear Antonioni

Dear Antonioni

as Self

1995
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' 4.5

The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'

as Self

2002
Patti Smith: Dream of Life 6.1

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

as Self

2008
After the Harvest 8.0

After the Harvest

as Caleb Gare

2001
Kurosawa 7.0

Kurosawa

as Narrator (voice)

2000
Lily Dale 3.7

Lily Dale

as Pete Davenport

1996
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur 7.2

One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur

as Self

2008
Renaldo and Clara 7.9

Renaldo and Clara

as Rodeo

1978
This So-Called Disaster 5.2

This So-Called Disaster

as Self

2003
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose 9.0

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

as Self

2007
Made in the USA 2.0

Made in the USA

as Self

1993
Shepard & Dark 5.5

Shepard & Dark

as Self

2012
MaMa's Pushcart

MaMa's Pushcart

1988

TV Shows 6

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