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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Shepard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Writing

Born: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA, 1943-11-05

Died: 2017-07-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Brand X		40
2	1978	Renaldo and Clara	Rodeo	83
3	1978	Days of Heaven	The Farmer	75
4	1980	Resurrection	Cal	65
5	1981	Raggedy Man	Bailey	53
6	1982	Frances	Harry York	69
7	1983	The Right Stuff	Chuck Yeager	74
8	1984	Country	Gil Ivy	64
9	1985	Fool for Love	Eddie	58
10	1986	Crimes of the Heart	Doc Porter	60
11	1987	Baby Boom	Dr. Jeff Cooper	64
12	1988	MaMa's Pushcart		0
13	1989	Steel Magnolias	Spud Jones	72
14	1990	Bright Angel	Jack Russell	48
15	1991	Voyager	Walter Faber	62
16	1991	Defenseless	Det. Beutel	50
17	1992	Thunderheart	Frank Coutelle	63
18	1993	The Pelican Brief	Thomas Callahan	66
19	1993	Made in the USA	Self	20
20	1994	Safe Passage	Patrick	60
21	1995	Dear Antonioni	Self	0
22	1995	The Good Old Boys	Tarnell	67
23	1996	Lily Dale	Pete Davenport	20
24	1997	The Only Thrill	Reece McHenry	49
25	1998	Curtain Call	Will Dodge	50
26	1999	Purgatory	Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock	72
27	1999	Dash and Lilly	Dashiell Hammett	80
28	1999	Snow Falling on Cedars	Arthur Chambers	61
29	2000	Hamlet	Ghost	58
30	2000	One Kill	Maj. Nelson Gray	63
31	2000	All the Pretty Horses	J.C. Franklin	57
32	2000	Kurosawa	Narrator (voice)	67
33	2001	The Pledge	Eric Pollack	66
34	2001	After the Harvest	Caleb Gare	0
35	2001	Swordfish	Senator Reisman	63
36	2001	Shot in the Heart	Frank Gilmore, Sr.	56
37	2001	Black Hawk Down	MG William F. Garrison	74
38	2002	Leo	Vic	62
39	2002	Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick	Self	67
40	2003	This So-Called Disaster	Self	42
41	2003	Blind Horizon	Sheriff Jack Kolb	57
42	2004	The Notebook	Frank Calhoun	79
43	2005	Trudell	Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)	54
44	2005	Stealth	George Cummings	54
45	2005	Don't Come Knocking	Howard	62
46	2006	Bandidas	Bill Buck	60
47	2006	Walker Payne	Syrus	43
48	2006	The Return	Ed Mills	60
49	2006	Charlotte's Web	Narrator (voice)	62
50	2007	Ruffian	Frank Whiteley	87
51	2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Frank James	70
52	2007	The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose	Self	0
53	2008	The Accidental Husband	Wilder	55
54	2008	Patti Smith: Dream of Life	Self	60
55	2008	Felon	Gordon	71
56	2009	Brothers	Hank Cahill	73
57	2010	Fair Game	Sam Plame	65
58	2010	Inhale	James Harrison	60
59	2011	Blackthorn	James Blackthorn	66
60	2012	Safe House	Harlan Whitford	65
61	2012	Darling Companion	Sheriff Morris	50
62	2012	Killing Them Softly	Dillon	60
63	2012	Shepard & Dark	Self	59
64	2013	Savannah	Mr. Stubbs	60
65	2013	Mud	Tom	71
66	2013	Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction	Self	66
67	2013	Out of the Furnace	Gerald 'Red' Baze	66
68	2013	August: Osage County	Beverly Weston	69
69	2014	Cold in July	Russell	65
70	2015	Ithaca	Willie Grogan	53
71	2016	Midnight Special	Calvin Meyer	62
72	2016	In Dubious Battle	Mr. Anderson	58
73	2017	Never Here	Paul Stark	50
74	2017	California Typewriter	Self	69
75	2019	Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese	The Writer	71

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
2	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self (uncredited)	65
3	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
4	1995	Streets of Laredo	Pea Eye Parker	63
5	2014	Klondike	Father Judge	71
6	2015	Bloodline	Robert Rayburn	71

Sam Shepard

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