Sam Shepard
Personal Info
Known for
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-11-05
Day of Death
2017-07-27 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Sam Shepard
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.
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Acting
(2019)
(2017)
Never Here
as Paul Stark
(2017)
California Typewriter
as Self
(2016)
Midnight Special
as Calvin Meyer
(2016)
In Dubious Battle
as Mr. Anderson
(2015)
Ithaca
as Willie Grogan
(2014)
Cold in July
as Russell
(2013)
Mud
as Tom
(2013)
August: Osage County
as Beverly Weston
(2013)
(2013)
Out of the Furnace
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
(2013)
Savannah
as Mr. Stubbs
(2012)
Killing Them Softly
as Dillon
(2012)
Safe House
as Harlan Whitford
(2012)
Darling Companion
as Sheriff Morris
(2012)
Shepard & Dark
as Self
(2011)
Blackthorn
as James Blackthorn
(2010)
Inhale
as James Harrison
(2010)
Fair Game
as Sam Plame
(2009)
Brothers
as Hank Cahill
(2008)
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
as Self
(2008)
Felon
as Gordon
(2008)
The Accidental Husband
as Wilder
(2007)
(2007)
Ruffian
as Frank Whiteley
(2007)
(2006)
The Return
as Ed Mills
(2006)
Bandidas
as Bill Buck
(2006)
Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)
(2006)
Walker Payne
as Syrus
(2005)
Stealth
as George Cummings
(2005)
Don't Come Knocking
as Howard
(2005)
Trudell
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
(2004)
The Notebook
as Frank Calhoun
(2003)
Blind Horizon
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
(2003)
This So-Called Disaster
as Self
(2002)
Leo
as Vic
(2002)
(2001)
Black Hawk Down
as MG William F. Garrison
(2001)
The Pledge
as Eric Pollack
(2001)
Swordfish
as Senator Reisman
(2001)
Shot in the Heart
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
(2001)
After the Harvest
as Caleb Gare
(2000)
Hamlet
as Ghost
(2000)
All the Pretty Horses
as J.C. Franklin
(2000)
Kurosawa
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
One Kill
as Maj. Nelson Gray
(1999)
Purgatory
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
(1999)
Dash and Lilly
as Dashiell Hammett
(1999)
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Arthur Chambers
(1998)
Curtain Call
as Will Dodge
(1997)
The Only Thrill
as Reece McHenry
(1996)
Lily Dale
as Pete Davenport
(1995)
The Good Old Boys
as Tarnell
(1995)
Dear Antonioni
as Self
(1994)
Safe Passage
as Patrick
(1993)
The Pelican Brief
as Thomas Callahan
(1993)
Made in the USA
as Self
(1992)
Thunderheart
as Frank Coutelle
(1991)
Voyager
as Walter Faber
(1991)
Defenseless
as Det. Beutel
(1990)
Bright Angel
as Jack Russell
(1989)
Steel Magnolias
as Spud Jones
(1988)
(1987)
Baby Boom
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
(1986)
Crimes of the Heart
as Doc Porter
(1985)
Fool for Love
as Eddie
(1984)
Country
as Gil Ivy
(1983)
The Right Stuff
as Chuck Yeager
(1982)
Frances
as Harry York
(1981)
Raggedy Man
as Bailey
(1980)
Resurrection
as Cal
(1978)
Days of Heaven
as The Farmer
(1978)
Renaldo and Clara
as Rodeo
(1970)
Crew
Ages of the Moon
Theatre Play
(2020)
Tesla
In Memory Of
(2016)
Buried Child
Writer
(2016)
True West
Writer
(2013)
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Acting Double
(2005)
Don't Come Knocking
Writer
(2004)
See You in My Dreams
Short Story, Writer
(2002)
True West
Writer
(1999)
Simpatico
Theatre Play
(1994)
(1993)
Silent Tongue
Director, Writer
(1988)
Far North
Director, Writer
(1985)
Fool for Love
Screenplay, Theatre Play
(1984)
Paris, Texas
Writer
(1984)
True West
Writer
(1982)
Tongues
Writer, Music
(1981)
Savage/Love
Writer
(1978)
Renaldo and Clara
Writer
(1972)
Oh! Calcutta!
Writer
(1970)
Zabriskie Point
Screenplay
(1969)
Me and My Brother
Writer