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. 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.
Born: 05 November 1943 • Died: 27 July 2017
Played In
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
California Typewriter
Self
Never Here
Paul Stark
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
Ithaca
Willie Grogan
Bloodline
Robert Rayburn
Cold in July
Russell
Klondike
Father Judge
August: Osage County
Beverly Weston
Out of the Furnace
Gerald 'Red' Baze
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
Mud
Tom
Savannah
Mr. Stubbs
Shepard & Dark
Self
Killing Them Softly
Dillon
Darling Companion
Sheriff Morris
Safe House
Harlan Whitford
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
Inhale
James Harrison
Fair Game
Sam Plame
Brothers
Hank Cahill
Felon
Gordon
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
The Accidental Husband
Wilder
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank James
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
Charlotte's Web
Narrator (voice)
The Return
Ed Mills
Walker Payne
Syrus
Bandidas
Bill Buck
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
Stealth
George Cummings
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
The Notebook
Frank Calhoun
Blind Horizon
Sheriff Jack Kolb
This So-Called Disaster
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
Leo
Vic
Black Hawk Down
MG William F. Garrison
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Swordfish
Senator Reisman
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare
The Pledge
Eric Pollack
Kurosawa
Narrator (voice)
All the Pretty Horses
J.C. Franklin
One Kill
Maj. Nelson Gray
Hamlet
Ghost
Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur Chambers
Dash and Lilly
Dashiell Hammett
Purgatory
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Curtain Call
Will Dodge
The Only Thrill
Reece McHenry
Lily Dale
Pete Davenport
Streets of Laredo
Pea Eye Parker
The Good Old Boys
Tarnell
Dear Antonioni
Self
Safe Passage
Patrick
Made in the USA
Self
The Pelican Brief
Thomas Callahan
Thunderheart
Frank Coutelle
Defenseless
Det. Beutel
Voyager
Walter Faber
Bright Angel
Jack Russell
Steel Magnolias
Spud Jones
MaMa's Pushcart
Baby Boom
Dr. Jeff Cooper
Crimes of the Heart
Doc Porter
Fool for Love
Eddie
Country
Gil Ivy
The Right Stuff
Chuck Yeager
Frances
Harry York
Raggedy Man
Bailey
Resurrection
Cal
Days of Heaven
The Farmer
Renaldo and Clara
Rodeo
Great Performances
Self
Brand X
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee