Sam Shepard
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.
Known for
Acting81
movieNever Here
2017
Paul Stark
movieIn Dubious Battle
2016
Mr. Anderson
movieMidnight Special
2016
Calvin Meyer
movieIthaca
2015
Willie Grogan
tvBloodline
2015
Robert Rayburn
movieCold in July
2014
Russell
tvKlondike
2014
Father Judge
movieAugust: Osage County
2013
Beverly Weston
movieOut of the Furnace
2013
Gerald 'Red' Baze
movieMud
2013
Tom
movieSavannah
2013
Mr. Stubbs
movieDarling Companion
2012
Sheriff Morris
movieSafe House
2012
Harlan Whitford
movieBlackthorn
2011
James Blackthorn
movieInhale
2010
James Harrison
movieFair Game
2010
Sam Plame
movieBrothers
2009
Hank Cahill
movieFelon
2008
Gordon
movieRuffian
2007
Frank Whiteley
movieCharlotte's Web
2006
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Return
2006
Ed Mills
movieBandidas
2006
Bill Buck
movieStealth
2005
George Cummings
movieTrudell
2005
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
movieThe Notebook
2004
Frank Calhoun
movieBlind Horizon
2003
Sheriff Jack Kolb
movieLeo
2002
Vic
movieBlack Hawk Down
2001
MG William F. Garrison
movieShot in the Heart
2001
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
movieSwordfish
2001
Senator Reisman
movieAfter the Harvest
2001
Caleb Gare
movieThe Pledge
2001
Eric Pollack
movieKurosawa
2000
Narrator (voice)
movieAll the Pretty Horses
2000
J.C. Franklin
movieOne Kill
2000
Maj. Nelson Gray
movieHamlet
2000
Ghost
movieSnow Falling on Cedars
1999
Arthur Chambers
movieDash and Lilly
1999
Dashiell Hammett
moviePurgatory
1999
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
movieCurtain Call
1998
Will Dodge
movieThe Only Thrill
1997
Reece McHenry
movieLily Dale
1996
Pete Davenport
tvStreets of Laredo
1995
Pea Eye Parker
movieThe Good Old Boys
1995
Tarnell
movieSafe Passage
1994
Patrick
movieThe Pelican Brief
1993
Thomas Callahan
movieThunderheart
1992
Frank Coutelle
movieDefenseless
1991
Det. Beutel
movieVoyager
1991
Walter Faber
movieBright Angel
1990
Jack Russell
movieSteel Magnolias
1989
Spud Jones
movieBaby Boom
1987
Dr. Jeff Cooper
movieCrimes of the Heart
1986
Doc Porter
movieCountry
1984
Gil Ivy
movieThe Right Stuff
1983
Chuck Yeager
movieFrances
1982
Harry York
movieRaggedy Man
1981
Bailey
movieDays of Heaven
1978
The Farmer
tvRowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Self (uncredited)
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Nominee
Writing21
movieBuried Child
2016
Writer
movieTrue West
2016
Writer
movieSee You in My Dreams
2004
Short Story, Writer
movieTrue West
2002
Writer
movieSimpatico
1999
Theatre Play
movieSilent Tongue
1994
Writer
movieFar North
1988
Writer
movieFool for Love
1985
Screenplay, Theatre Play
movieParis, Texas
1984
Writer
movieTrue West
1984
Writer
Tongues
1982
Writer
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Writer, Theatre Play
movieSavage/Love
1981
Writer
movieOh! Calcutta!
1972
Writer
movieZabriskie Point
1970
Screenplay
Ages of the Moon
Theatre Play
Crew2
movieTesla
2020
In Memory Of
movieThe Assassination of President Kennedy
2013
Acting Double
Directing2
movieSilent Tongue
1994
Director
movieFar North
1988
Director