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