Sam Shepard
Born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA — Nov 05 1943• Died Jul 27 2017
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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…
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Great Performances
Self
Defenseless
Det. Beutel
Felon
Gordon
Bloodline
Robert Rayburn
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
The Notebook
Frank Calhoun
Black Hawk Down
MG William F. Garrison
Brothers
Hank Cahill
Paris, Texas
Writing
Klondike
Father Judge
Days of Heaven
The Farmer
Swordfish
Senator Reisman
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank James
The Pledge
Eric Pollack
Mud
Tom
The Right Stuff
Chuck Yeager
Safe House
Harlan Whitford
August: Osage County
Beverly Weston
Stealth
George Cummings
Streets of Laredo
Pea Eye Parker
Charlotte's Web
Narrator (voice)
Alive from Off Center
Writing
Bandidas
Bill Buck
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
Out of the Furnace
Gerald 'Red' Baze
Steel Magnolias
Spud Jones
Fair Game
Sam Plame
All the Pretty Horses
J.C. Franklin
Purgatory
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Tesla
Crew
Frances
Harry York
The Accidental Husband
Wilder
Killing Them Softly
Dillon
Cold in July
Russell
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
The Pelican Brief
Thomas Callahan
Hamlet
Ghost
Fool for Love
Eddie
Resurrection
Cal
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
Zabriskie Point
Writing
Thunderheart
Frank Coutelle
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur Chambers
Bright Angel
Jack Russell
Curtain Call
Will Dodge
Voyager
Walter Faber
The Only Thrill
Reece McHenry
Crimes of the Heart
Doc Porter
Never Here
Paul Stark
Blind Horizon
Sheriff Jack Kolb
Leo
Vic
Baby Boom
Dr. Jeff Cooper
Simpatico
Writing
Darling Companion
Sheriff Morris
Kurosawa
Narrator (voice)
Inhale
James Harrison
Country
Gil Ivy
Safe Passage
Patrick
The Return
Ed Mills
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
Buried Child
Writing
The Good Old Boys
Tarnell
Brand X
Lily Dale
Pete Davenport
Walker Payne
Syrus
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
Oh! Calcutta!
Writing
Ithaca
Willie Grogan
Raggedy Man
Bailey
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
Savannah
Mr. Stubbs
Dash and Lilly
Dashiell Hammett
Renaldo and Clara
Rodeo
California Typewriter
Self
See You in My Dreams
Writing
Silent Tongue
Directing
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
Far North
Directing
One Kill
Maj. Nelson Gray
Curse of the Starving Class
Writing
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Crew
Made in the USA
Self
Shepard & Dark
Self
Ages of the Moon
Writing
True West
Writing
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
This So-Called Disaster
Self
Me and My Brother
Writing
Dear Antonioni
Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
True West
Writing
True West
Writing
MaMa's Pushcart
Savage/Love
Writing
Tongues
Sound
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self