Sam Shepard
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Great Performances
Self
1971
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
Film
The Notebook
Frank Calhoun
2004
Series
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
1968
Film
Black Hawk Down
Garrison
2001
Series
Bloodline
Robert Rayburn
2015
Film
Safe House
Harlan Whitford
2012
Film
Brothers
Hank Cahill
2009
Film
The Pelican Brief
Thomas Callahan
1993
Film
Swordfish
Senator Reisman
2001
Film
Charlotte's Web
Narrator (voice)
2006
Film
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank James
2007
Film
Steel Magnolias
Spud Jones
1989
Film
August: Osage County
Beverly Weston
2013
Film
Stealth
George Cummings
2005
Film
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
2016
Film
The Right Stuff
Chuck Yeager
1983
Film
Killing Them Softly
Dillon
2012
Film
Fair Game
Sam Plame
2010
Film
The Pledge
Eric Pollack
2001
Film
Out of the Furnace
Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013
Film
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
2016
Film
Days of Heaven
The Farmer
1978
Film
Mud
Tom
2013
Film
Felon
Gordon
2008
Film
Baby Boom
Dr. Jeff Cooper
1987
Film
The Accidental Husband
Wilder
2008
Film
All the Pretty Horses
J.C. Franklin
2000
Series
Klondike
Father Judge
2014
Film
Thunderheart
Frank Coutelle
1992
Series
Streets of Laredo
Pea Eye Parker
1995
Film
Cold in July
Russell
2014
Film
Bandidas
Bill Buck
2006
Film
Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur Chambers
1999
Film
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
2005
Film
Blind Horizon
Sheriff Jack Kolb
2003
Film
Darling Companion
Sheriff Morris
2012
Film
The Return
Ed Mills
2006
Film
Purgatory
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
1999
Film
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
2011
Film
Frances
Harry York
1982
Film
Crimes of the Heart
Doc Porter
1986
Film
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
2019
Film
Defenseless
Det. Beutel
1991
Film
The Good Old Boys
Tarnell
1995
Film
Raggedy Man
Bailey
1981
Film
Curtain Call
Will Dodge
1998
Film
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
2002
Film
Fool for Love
Eddie
1985
Film
Ithaca
Willie Grogan
2015
Film
Hamlet
Ghost
2000
Film
Bright Angel
Jack Russell
1990
Film
Voyager
Walter Faber
1991
Film
Safe Passage
Patrick
1994
Film
California Typewriter
Self
2017
Film
Never Here
Paul Stark
2017
Film
Inhale
James Harrison
2010
Film
Kurosawa
Narrator (voice)
2000
Film
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
2001
Film
Made in the USA
Self
1993
Film
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
2013
Film
Lily Dale
Pete Davenport
1996
Film
The Only Thrill
Reece McHenry
1997
Film
Savannah
Mr. Stubbs
2013
Film
Resurrection
Cal
1980
Film
Dear Antonioni
Self
1995
Film
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
2008
Film
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
2005
Film
This So-Called Disaster
Self
2003
Film
Walker Payne
Syrus
2006
Film
Brand X
1970
Film
One Kill
Maj. Nelson Gray
2000
Film
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
2007
Film
Leo
Vic
2002
Film
Country
Gil Ivy
1984
Film
Dash and Lilly
Dashiell Hammett
1999
Film
Renaldo and Clara
Rodeo
1978
Film
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self
2007
Film
Shepard & Dark
Self
2012
Film
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
Self
2002
Film
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare
2001
Film
MaMa's Pushcart
1988