Sam Shepard
Acting
1943-11-05 · Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography
Tesla
2020 · Movie
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 · Movie
California Typewriter
2017 · Movie
Never Here
2017 · Movie
Buried Child
2016 · Movie
In Dubious Battle
2016 · Movie
Midnight Special
2016 · Movie
True West
2016 · Movie
Ithaca
2015 · Movie
Bloodline
2015 · Series
Cold in July
2014 · Movie
Klondike
2014 · Series
August: Osage County
2013 · Movie
The Assassination of President Kennedy
2013 · Movie
Out of the Furnace
2013 · Movie
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013 · Movie
Mud
2013 · Movie
Savannah
2013 · Movie
Shepard & Dark
2012 · Movie
Killing Them Softly
2012 · Movie
Darling Companion
2012 · Movie
Safe House
2012 · Movie
Blackthorn
2011 · Movie
Inhale
2010 · Movie
Fair Game
2010 · Movie
Brothers
2009 · Movie
Felon
2008 · Movie
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008 · Movie
The Accidental Husband
2008 · Movie
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007 · Movie
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Movie
Ruffian
2007 · Movie
Charlotte's Web
2006 · Movie
The Return
2006 · Movie
Walker Payne
2006 · Movie
Bandidas
2006 · Movie
Don't Come Knocking
2005 · Movie
Stealth
2005 · Movie
Trudell
2005 · Movie
The Notebook
2004 · Movie
See You in My Dreams
2004 · Movie
Blind Horizon
2003 · Movie
This So-Called Disaster
2003 · Movie
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · Movie
True West
2002 · Movie
Leo
2002 · Movie
Black Hawk Down
2001 · Movie
Shot in the Heart
2001 · Movie
Swordfish
2001 · Movie
After the Harvest
2001 · Movie
The Pledge
2001 · Movie
Kurosawa
2000 · Movie
All the Pretty Horses
2000 · Movie
One Kill
2000 · Movie
Hamlet
2000 · Movie
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 · Movie
Simpatico
1999 · Movie
Dash and Lilly
1999 · Movie
Purgatory
1999 · Movie
Curtain Call
1998 · Movie
The Only Thrill
1997 · Movie
Lily Dale
1996 · Movie
Streets of Laredo
1995 · Series
The Good Old Boys
1995 · Movie
Dear Antonioni
1995 · Movie
Safe Passage
1994 · Movie
Curse of the Starving Class
1994 · Movie
Silent Tongue
1994 · Movie
Made in the USA
1993 · Movie
The Pelican Brief
1993 · Movie
Thunderheart
1992 · Movie
Defenseless
1991 · Movie
Voyager
1991 · Movie
Bright Angel
1990 · Movie
Steel Magnolias
1989 · Movie
Far North
1988 · Movie
MaMa's Pushcart
1988 · Movie
Baby Boom
1987 · Movie
Crimes of the Heart
1986 · Movie
Fool for Love
1985 · Movie
Alive from Off Center
1985 · Series
Country
1984 · Movie
Paris, Texas
1984 · Movie
True West
1984 · Movie
The Right Stuff
1983 · Movie
Frances
1982 · Movie
Tongues
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Raggedy Man
1981 · Movie
Savage/Love
1981 · Movie
Resurrection
1980 · Movie
Days of Heaven
1978 · Movie
Renaldo and Clara
1978 · Movie
Oh! Calcutta!
1972 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Brand X
1970 · Movie
Zabriskie Point
1970 · Movie
Me and My Brother
1969 · Movie
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Ages of the Moon
Movie