
Sam Shepard
Known for Acting · 81 credits
- Born
- 1943-11-05
- Died
- 2017-07-27
- Place of birth
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Samuel Shepard Rogers · Сем Шепард · سم شپارد · سام شپارد
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.
Known For
TV Shows (6)
Movies (75)

The Notebook
2004
as Frank Calhoun

Black Hawk Down
2001
as MG William F. Garrison

Mud
2013
as Tom

Swordfish
2001
as Senator Reisman

Brothers
2009
as Hank Cahill

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
as Frank James

Steel Magnolias
1989
as Spud Jones

The Pelican Brief
1993
as Thomas Callahan

Stealth
2005
as George Cummings

Bandidas
2006
as Bill Buck

Charlotte's Web
2006
as Narrator (voice)

Safe House
2012
as Harlan Whitford

Felon
2008
as Gordon

The Right Stuff
1983
as Chuck Yeager

The Pledge
2001
as Eric Pollack

Out of the Furnace
2013
as Gerald 'Red' Baze

Midnight Special
2016
as Calvin Meyer

In Dubious Battle
2016
as Mr. Anderson

Fair Game
2010
as Sam Plame

August: Osage County
2013
as Beverly Weston

Killing Them Softly
2012
as Dillon

All the Pretty Horses
2000
as J.C. Franklin

Thunderheart
1992
as Frank Coutelle

The Accidental Husband
2008
as Wilder

Days of Heaven
1978
as The Farmer

Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
as Arthur Chambers

Blackthorn
2011
as James Blackthorn

Cold in July
2014
as Russell

Curtain Call
1998
as Will Dodge

Baby Boom
1987
as Dr. Jeff Cooper

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
as The Writer

Frances
1982
as Harry York

Purgatory
1999
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock

Hamlet
2000
as Ghost

Ithaca
2015
as Willie Grogan

Blind Horizon
2003
as Sheriff Jack Kolb

Darling Companion
2012
as Sheriff Morris

The Return
2006
as Ed Mills

Bright Angel
1990
as Jack Russell

Safe Passage
1994
as Patrick

Country
1984
as Gil Ivy

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self

Don't Come Knocking
2005
as Howard

Inhale
2010
as James Harrison

Made in the USA
1993
as Self

Leo
2002
as Vic

Resurrection
1980
as Cal

Walker Payne
2006
as Syrus

Kurosawa
2000
as Narrator (voice)

Voyager
1991
as Walter Faber

The Good Old Boys
1995
as Tarnell

Shepard & Dark
2012
as Self

Never Here
2017
as Paul Stark

The Only Thrill
1997
as Reece McHenry

Raggedy Man
1981
as Bailey

Defenseless
1991
as Det. Beutel

Crimes of the Heart
1986
as Doc Porter

Lily Dale
1996
as Pete Davenport

Savannah
2013
as Mr. Stubbs

California Typewriter
2017
as Self

Shot in the Heart
2001
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.

Trudell
2005
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)

Renaldo and Clara
1978
as Rodeo

Ruffian
2007
as Frank Whiteley

Fool for Love
1985
as Eddie

After the Harvest
2001
as Caleb Gare

Brand X
1970

Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
as Self

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
as Self

This So-Called Disaster
2003
as Self

One Kill
2000
as Maj. Nelson Gray

Dash and Lilly
1999
as Dashiell Hammett

Dear Antonioni
1995
as Self

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007
as Self

MaMa's Pushcart
1988
About Sam Shepard
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. H… With 81 credits spanning from 1956 to 2019, Sam Shepard has appeared in 75 films and 6 TV shows.
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Most Popular Sam Shepard Movies
- The Notebook (2004) — as Frank Calhoun
- Black Hawk Down (2001) — as MG William F. Garrison
- Mud (2013) — as Tom
- Swordfish (2001) — as Senator Reisman
- Brothers (2009) — as Hank Cahill
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