Sam Shepard

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-11-05 (74 years old)

Deathday

2017-07-27

Place of Birth

Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

Sam Shepard

Biography

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...

Acting

2001

Black Hawk Down

as MG William F. Garrison

1991

Voyager

as Walter Faber

2005

Stealth

as George Cummings

2006

The Return

as Ed Mills

2005

1982

Frances

as Harry York

2006

Bandidas

as Bill Buck

2000

Hamlet

as Ghost

1989

Steel Magnolias

as Spud Jones

2004

The Notebook

as Frank Calhoun

1987

Baby Boom

as Dr. Jeff Cooper

2001

The Pledge

as Eric Pollack

2002

Leo

as Vic

1999

Purgatory

as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock

2003

Blind Horizon

as Sheriff Jack Kolb

1992

Thunderheart

as Frank Coutelle

2001

Swordfish

as Senator Reisman

1983

The Right Stuff

as Chuck Yeager

2010

Inhale

as James Harrison

1993

The Pelican Brief

as Thomas Callahan

2008

Felon

as Gordon

2006

Charlotte's Web

as Narrator (voice)

1984

Country

as Gil Ivy

1991

Defenseless

as Det. Beutel

1978

Days of Heaven

as The Farmer

2012

1986

Crimes of the Heart

as Doc Porter

1998

Curtain Call

as Will Dodge

1994

Safe Passage

as Patrick

2011

Blackthorn

as James Blackthorn

1985

2000

All the Pretty Horses

as J.C. Franklin

2000

Kurosawa

as Narrator (voice)

2012

Safe House

as Harlan Whitford

1981

Raggedy Man

as Bailey

1990

Bright Angel

as Jack Russell

2012

Darling Companion

as Sheriff Morris

1980

2013

Mud

as Tom

2001

Shot in the Heart

as Frank Gilmore, Sr.

2001

After the Harvest

as Caleb Gare

2013

August: Osage County

as Beverly Weston

2007

Ruffian

as Frank Whiteley

2013

Out of the Furnace

as Gerald 'Red' Baze

1999

Dash and Lilly

as Dashiell Hammett

2013

Savannah

as Mr. Stubbs

1996

Lily Dale

as Pete Davenport

2014

Cold in July

as Russell

1997

The Only Thrill

as Reece McHenry

2009

Brothers

as Hank Cahill

2012

1978

1995

2017

Never Here

as Paul Stark

2015

Ithaca

as Willie Grogan

2016

Midnight Special

as Calvin Meyer

2000

One Kill

as Maj. Nelson Gray

1999

Snow Falling on Cedars

as Arthur Chambers

2005

Trudell

as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)

1993

2016

In Dubious Battle

as Mr. Anderson

2006

Walker Payne

as Syrus

1995

2010

Fair Game

as Sam Plame

Production

1984

Paris, Texas

as Writer

1970

Zabriskie Point

as Screenplay

1999

Simpatico

as Theatre Play

1988

Far North

as Director

1993

Silent Tongue

as Director

1993

Silent Tongue

as Writer

1978

1972

Oh! Calcutta!

as Writer

1988

Far North

as Writer

2004

See You in My Dreams

as Short Story

1985

Fool for Love

as Theatre Play

1985

Fool for Love

as Screenplay

1984

True West

as Writer

2002

True West

as Writer

2005

1969

2016

Buried Child

as Writer

1982

Tongues

as Music

1982

Tongues

as Writer

1981

Savage/Love

as Writer

2016

True West

as Writer

2020

Tesla

as In Memory Of

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Ages of the Moon

as Theatre Play

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