Name
Sam Shepard
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1943-11-05
Deathday
2017-07-27 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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
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An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer'...
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When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Soma...
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, h...
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Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protect...
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A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her ...
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A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to...
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A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's re...
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Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into J...
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In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against th...
- 2001 Black Hawk Down as Garrison
- 1991 Voyager as Walter Faber
- 2005 Stealth as George Cummings
- 2006 The Return as Ed Mills
- 1982 Frances as Harry York
- 2005 Don't Come Knocking as Howard
- 2006 Bandidas as Bill Buck
- 2000 Hamlet as Ghost
- 1989 Steel Magnolias as Spud Jones
- 2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Frank James
- 2004 The Notebook as Frank Calhoun
- 1987 Baby Boom as Dr. Jeff Cooper
- 2001 The Pledge as Eric Pollack
- 2008 Patti Smith: Dream of Life as Self
- 2002 Leo as Vic
- 1999 Purgatory as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
- 2003 Blind Horizon as Sheriff Jack Kolb
- 2001 Swordfish as Senator Reisman
- 1992 Thunderheart as Frank Coutelle
- 1983 The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager
- 2010 Inhale as James Harrison
- 1993 The Pelican Brief as Thomas Callahan
- 2008 Felon as Gordon
- 2006 Charlotte's Web as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 The Accidental Husband as Wilder
- 1984 Country as Gil Ivy
- 1991 Defenseless as Det. Beutel
- 1978 Days of Heaven as The Farmer
- 2012 Killing Them Softly as Dillon
- 1986 Crimes of the Heart as Doc Porter
- 1998 Curtain Call as Will Dodge
- 1994 Safe Passage as Patrick
- 2011 Blackthorn as James Blackthorn
- 1985 Fool for Love as Eddie
- 2000 All the Pretty Horses as J.C. Franklin
- 2000 Kurosawa as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 Safe House as Harlan Whitford
- 1981 Raggedy Man as Bailey
- 1990 Bright Angel as Jack Russell
- 2012 Darling Companion as Sheriff Morris
- 1980 Resurrection as Cal
- 2013 Mud as Tom
- 2001 Shot in the Heart as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
- 2001 After the Harvest as Caleb Gare
- 2013 August: Osage County as Beverly Weston
- 2013 Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
- 2007 Ruffian as Frank Whiteley
- 2013 Out of the Furnace as Gerald 'Red' Baze
- 1999 Dash and Lilly as Dashiell Hammett
- 2013 Savannah as Mr. Stubbs
- 1996 Lily Dale as Pete Davenport
- 2002 Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 2014 Cold in July as Russell
- 1997 The Only Thrill as Reece McHenry
- 2009 Brothers as Hank Cahill
- 2012 Shepard & Dark as Self
- 1978 Renaldo and Clara as Rodeo
- 1995 The Good Old Boys as Tarnell
- 2017 Never Here as Paul Stark
- 2015 Ithaca as Willie Grogan
- 2016 Midnight Special as Calvin Meyer
- 2000 One Kill as Maj. Nelson Gray
- 1999 Snow Falling on Cedars as Arthur Chambers
- 2007 The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose as Self
- 2005 Trudell as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
- 1993 Made in the USA as Self
- 2016 In Dubious Battle as Mr. Anderson
- 2006 Walker Payne as Syrus
- 1970 Brand X
- 2003 This So-Called Disaster as Self
- 2017 California Typewriter as Self
- 1988 MaMa's Pushcart
- 1995 Dear Antonioni as Self
- 2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese as The Writer
- 2010 Fair Game as Sam Plame
- 2002 The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' as Self
- 1995 Streets of Laredo ( 3 episodes ) as Pea Eye Parker
- 2014 Klondike ( 3 episodes ) as Father Judge
- 2015 Bloodline ( 13 episodes ) as Robert Rayburn
- 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 1 episode ) as Self (uncredited)
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
