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