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 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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Notebook (2004) — Frank Calhoun
2. Black Hawk Down (2001) — MG William F. Garrison
3. Brothers (2009) — Hank Cahill
4. Safe House (2012) — Harlan Whitford
5. Mud (2013) — Tom
6. Swordfish (2001) — Senator Reisman
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) — Frank James
8. Killing Them Softly (2012) — Dillon
9. Out of the Furnace (2013) — Gerald 'Red' Baze
10. Midnight Special (2016) — Calvin Meyer
11. The Pelican Brief (1993) — Thomas Callahan
12. August: Osage County (2013) — Beverly Weston
13. Charlotte's Web (2006) — Narrator (voice)
14. The Pledge (2001) — Eric Pollack
15. Days of Heaven (1978) — The Farmer
16. Bandidas (2006) — Bill Buck
17. Stealth (2005) — George Cummings
18. Felon (2008) — Gordon
19. The Right Stuff (1983) — Chuck Yeager
20. Fair Game (2010) — Sam Plame
21. Cold in July (2014) — Russell
22. Steel Magnolias (1989) — Spud Jones
23. The Return (2006) — Ed Mills
24. The Accidental Husband (2008) — Wilder
25. Baby Boom (1987) — Dr. Jeff Cooper
26. Bloodline (2015) — Robert Rayburn
27. Thunderheart (1992) — Frank Coutelle
28. Blackthorn (2011) — James Blackthorn
29. All the Pretty Horses (2000) — J.C. Franklin
30. In Dubious Battle (2016) — Mr. Anderson
31. Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) — Arthur Chambers
32. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) — The Writer
33. Don't Come Knocking (2005) — Howard
34. Hamlet (2000) — Ghost
35. Inhale (2010) — James Harrison
36. Purgatory (1999) — Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
37. Frances (1982) — Harry York
38. Blind Horizon (2003) — Sheriff Jack Kolb
39. Ithaca (2015) — Willie Grogan
40. Darling Companion (2012) — Sheriff Morris

Directed

1. Silent Tongue (1994) — Director
2. Far North (1988) — Director