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