Sam Shepard
Actor, Writer, Director, Composer
November 5, 1943 — July 27, 2017 (73 years)
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.
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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| 2022 | Bonnie · as Garrison |
| 2019 | Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese · as The Writer |
| 2017 | Never Here · as Paul Stark |
| 2016 | In Dubious Battle · as Mr. AndersonOn Plex |
| 2016 | Midnight Special · as Calvin Meyer |
| 2015 | Ithaca · as Willie Grogan |
| 2015 | Bloodline · as Robert Rayburn |
| 2014 | Cold in July · as RussellOn Plex |
| 2014 | Klondike (2014) · as Father Judge |
| 2013 | August: Osage County · as Beverly Weston |
| 2013 | Out of the Furnace · as Gerald 'red' Baze |
| 2013 | Savannah · as Mr. Stubbs |
| 2012 | Mud · as Tom |
| 2012 | Killing Them Softly · as DillonOn Plex |
| 2012 | Darling Companion · as Sheriff Morris |
| 2012 | Safe House · as Harlan Whitford |
| 2011 | Blackthorn · as James Blackthorn |
| 2010 | Inhale · as James Harrison |
| 2010 | Fair Game · as Sam PlameOn Plex |
| 2009 | Brothers · as Hank Cahill |
| 2008 | Felon · as Gordon |
| 2008 | The Accidental Husband · as WilderOn Plex |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford · as Frank James |
| 2007 | Ruffian · as Frank Whiteley |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Walker Payne · as Syrus |
| 2006 | Bandidas · as Bill Buck |
| 2005 | Don't Come Knocking · as Howard |
| 2005 | Stealth · as George Cummings |
| 2005 | The Return · as Ed Mills |
| 2004 | The Notebook · as Frank Calhoun |
| 2003 | Blind Horizon · as Sheriff Jack KolbOn Plex |
| 2002 | Leo · as Vic |
| 2001 | Black Hawk Down · as Garrison |
| 2001 | Shot in the Heart · as Frank Gilmore, Sr. |
| 2001 | Swordfish · as Senator Reisman |
| 2001 | After the Harvest · as Caleb Gare |
| 2001 | The Pledge · as Eric PollackOn Plex |
| 2000 | All the Pretty Horses · as J.c. Franklin |
| 2000 | One Kill · as Maj. Nelson Gray |
| 2000 | Hamlet · as Ghost |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars · as Arthur Chambers |
| 1999 | Dash and Lilly · as Dashiell Hammett |
| 1999 | Purgatory · as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock |
| 1998 | It All Came True · as Will Dodge |
| 1997 | The Only Thrill · as Reece MchenryOn Plex |
| 1996 | Lily Dale · as Pete DavenportOn Plex |
| 1995 | Streets of Laredo · as Pea Eye ParkerOn Plex |
| 1995 | The Good Old Boys · as Tarnell |
| 1994 | Safe Passage · as Patrick |
| 1993 | The Pelican Brief · as Thomas Callahan |
| 1992 | Thunderheart · as Frank Coutelle |
| 1991 | Defenseless · as Det. Beutel |
| 1991 | Voyager · as Walter FaberOn Plex |
| 1990 | Bright Angel · as Jack Russell |
| 1989 | Steel Magnolias · as Spud Jones |
| 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 |
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| 2012 | Welcome To The Basement · as Screenplay |
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| 1988 | |
| 1985 | Fool for Love · as Screenplay |
| 1984 | |
| 1984 | Paris, TexasOn Plex |
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| 1972 | |
| 1970 | Zabriskie Point · as Screenplay |
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| 2022 | Patti Smith: Electric Poet · as Self |
| 2019 | It Takes a Lunatic · as Self |
| 2018 | The Oscars · as Self - Writer, Actor (in Memoriam) |
| 2016 | California Typewriter · as Self |
| 2012 | Gold Rush: The Dirt · as Self |
| 2012 | Shepard & Dark · as Self |
| 2012 | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction · as Self |
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| 2008 | Patti Smith: Dream of Life · as Self |
| 2006 | Wanderlust · as Self |
| 2006 | The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose · as Self |
| 2005 | Trudell · as Self - Playwright, Actor (thunderheart) |
| 2003 | This So-Called Disaster · as Self |
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| 1990 | Intimate Portrait · as Self |
| 1990 | The 62nd Annual Academy Awards · as Self |
| 1988 | P.O.V · as Self |
| 1986 | The 58th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1975 | Arena · as Self |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award · as Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances · as Self |
| 1967 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In · as Self (uncredited)On Plex |
| 1956 | Tony Awards · as Self - Nominee |
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| 1982 |
| 2004 | See You in My Dreams · as Short Story |
| 1999 | Simpatico · as Theatre PlayOn Plex |
| 1964 | NET Playhouse · as Play: "fourteen Hundred Thousand" |
| 1953 | Television Theater · as Author |