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