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