Sam Shepard
Acting
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.
TV Shows(6)
Movies(75)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
2019
California Typewriter
Self
2017
Never Here
Paul Stark
2017
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
2016
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
2016
Ithaca
Willie Grogan
2015
Cold in July
Russell
2014
August: Osage County
Beverly Weston
2013
Out of the Furnace
Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
2013
Mud
Tom
2013
Savannah
Mr. Stubbs
2013
Shepard & Dark
Self
2012
Killing Them Softly
Dillon
2012
Darling Companion
Sheriff Morris
2012
Safe House
Harlan Whitford
2012
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
2011
Inhale
James Harrison
2010
Fair Game
Sam Plame
2010
Brothers
Hank Cahill
2009
Felon
Gordon
2008
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
2008
The Accidental Husband
Wilder
2008
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self
2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank James
2007
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
2007
Charlotte's Web
Narrator (voice)
2006
The Return
Ed Mills
2006
Walker Payne
Syrus
2006
Bandidas
Bill Buck
2006
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
2005
Stealth
George Cummings
2005
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
2005
The Notebook
Frank Calhoun
2004
Blind Horizon
Sheriff Jack Kolb
2003
This So-Called Disaster
Self
2003
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
2002
Leo
Vic
2002
Black Hawk Down
MG William F. Garrison
2001
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
2001
Swordfish
Senator Reisman
2001
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare
2001
The Pledge
Eric Pollack
2001
Kurosawa
Narrator (voice)
2000
All the Pretty Horses
J.C. Franklin
2000
One Kill
Maj. Nelson Gray
2000
Hamlet
Ghost
2000
Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur Chambers
1999
Dash and Lilly
Dashiell Hammett
1999
Purgatory
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
1999
Curtain Call
Will Dodge
1998
The Only Thrill
Reece McHenry
1997
Lily Dale
Pete Davenport
1996
The Good Old Boys
Tarnell
1995
Dear Antonioni
Self
1995
Safe Passage
Patrick
1994
Made in the USA
Self
1993
The Pelican Brief
Thomas Callahan
1993
Thunderheart
Frank Coutelle
1992
Defenseless
Det. Beutel
1991
Voyager
Walter Faber
1991
Bright Angel
Jack Russell
1990
Steel Magnolias
Spud Jones
1989
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Baby Boom
Dr. Jeff Cooper
1987
Crimes of the Heart
Doc Porter
1986
Fool for Love
Eddie
1985
Country
Gil Ivy
1984
The Right Stuff
Chuck Yeager
1983
Frances
Harry York
1982
Raggedy Man
Bailey
1981
Resurrection
Cal
1980
Days of Heaven
The Farmer
1978
Renaldo and Clara
Rodeo
1978
Brand X
1970