Acting
Sam Shepard
EN, DE cinema · 94 credits
Born
5 November 1943
Died
27 July 2017 (aged 73)
Birthplace
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Also known as Samuel Shepard Rogers · Сем Шепард · سم شپارد · سام شپارد
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.
Known for
Filmography
Ages of the Moon
Ages of the Moon
Theatre Play
Tesla
In Memory Of
Never Here
as Paul Stark
Midnight Special
as Calvin Meyer
In Dubious Battle
as Mr. Anderson
Ithaca
as Willie Grogan
Cold in July
as Russell
Mud
as Tom
August: Osage County
as Beverly Weston
Out of the Furnace
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
Savannah
as Mr. Stubbs
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Acting Double
Killing Them Softly
as Dillon
Safe House
as Harlan Whitford
Darling Companion
as Sheriff Morris
Shepard & Dark
as Self
Blackthorn
as James Blackthorn
Inhale
as James Harrison
Fair Game
as Sam Plame
Brothers
as Hank Cahill
Felon
as Gordon
The Accidental Husband
as Wilder
Ruffian
as Frank Whiteley
The Return
as Ed Mills
Bandidas
as Bill Buck
Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)
Walker Payne
as Syrus
Stealth
as George Cummings
Don't Come Knocking
as Howard, Writer
Trudell
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
The Notebook
as Frank Calhoun
See You in My Dreams
Short Story, Writer
Blind Horizon
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
Leo
as Vic
True West
Writer
Black Hawk Down
as Garrison
The Pledge
as Eric Pollack
Swordfish
as Senator Reisman
Shot in the Heart
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
After the Harvest
as Caleb Gare
Hamlet
as Ghost
All the Pretty Horses
as J.C. Franklin
Kurosawa
as Narrator (voice)
One Kill
as Maj. Nelson Gray
Purgatory
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Dash and Lilly
as Dashiell Hammett
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Arthur Chambers
Simpatico
Theatre Play
Curtain Call
as Will Dodge
The Only Thrill
as Reece McHenry
Lily Dale
as Pete Davenport
The Good Old Boys
as Tarnell
Safe Passage
as Patrick
Silent Tongue
Director, Writer
The Pelican Brief
as Thomas Callahan
Made in the USA
as Self
Thunderheart
as Frank Coutelle
Voyager
as Walter Faber
Defenseless
as Det. Beutel
Bright Angel
as Jack Russell
Steel Magnolias
as Spud Jones
Far North
Director, Writer
Baby Boom
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
Crimes of the Heart
as Doc Porter
Fool for Love
as Eddie, Screenplay, Theatre Play
Country
as Gil Ivy
Paris, Texas
Writer
True West
Writer
The Right Stuff
as Chuck Yeager
Frances
as Harry York
Tongues
1982
Tongues
Writer, Music
Raggedy Man
as Bailey
Savage/Love
Writer
Resurrection
as Cal
Days of Heaven
as The Farmer
Renaldo and Clara
as Rodeo, Writer
Brand X
Actor
Zabriskie Point
Screenplay
