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