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Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Birthday
November 5, 1943
Died
July 27, 2017
Place of Birth
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Samuel Shepard Rogers
- Сем Шепард
- سم شپارد
- سام شپارد
Sam Shepard
1.1 Popularity
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Shepard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.1
The Writer
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
6.9
Self
California Typewriter
2017
5.0
Paul Stark
Never Here
2017
5.8
Mr. Anderson
In Dubious Battle
2016
6.2
Calvin Meyer
Midnight Special
2016
5.3
Willie Grogan
Ithaca
2015
7.1
Robert Rayburn
Bloodline
2015
6.5
Russell
Cold in July
2014
7.1
Father Judge
Klondike
2014
6.9
Beverly Weston
August: Osage County
2013
Credits
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as The Writer
2019
7.1
California Typewriter
as Self
2017
6.9
Never Here
as Paul Stark
2017
5.0
In Dubious Battle
as Mr. Anderson
2016
5.8
Midnight Special
as Calvin Meyer
2016
6.2
Ithaca
as Willie Grogan
2015
5.3
Bloodline
as Robert Rayburn
2015
7.1
Cold in July
as Russell
2014
6.5
Klondike
as Father Judge
2014
7.1
August: Osage County
as Beverly Weston
2013
6.9
Out of the Furnace
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013
6.6
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
as Self
2013
6.6
Mud
as Tom
2013
7.1
Savannah
as Mr. Stubbs
2013
6.0
Shepard & Dark
as Self
2012
5.9
Killing Them Softly
as Dillon
2012
6.0
Darling Companion
as Sheriff Morris
2012
5.0
Safe House
as Harlan Whitford
2012
6.5
Blackthorn
as James Blackthorn
2011
6.6
Inhale
as James Harrison
2010
6.0
Fair Game
as Sam Plame
2010
6.5
Brothers
as Hank Cahill
2009
7.3
Felon
as Gordon
2008
7.1
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
as Self
2008
6.0
The Accidental Husband
as Wilder
2008
5.5
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
as Self
2007
0.0
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Frank James
2007
7.0
Ruffian
as Frank Whiteley
2007
8.7
Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)
2006
6.2
The Return
as Ed Mills
2006
6.0
Walker Payne
as Syrus
2006
4.3
Bandidas
as Bill Buck
2006
6.0
Don't Come Knocking
as Howard
2005
6.2
Stealth
as George Cummings
2005
5.4
Trudell
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
2005
5.4
The Notebook
as Frank Calhoun
2004
7.9
Blind Horizon
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
2003
5.7
This So-Called Disaster
as Self
2003
4.2
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
2002
6.7
Leo
as Vic
2002
6.2
Black Hawk Down
as MG William F. Garrison
2001
7.4
Shot in the Heart
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
2001
5.6
Swordfish
as Senator Reisman
2001
6.2
After the Harvest
as Caleb Gare
2001
0.0
The Pledge
as Eric Pollack
2001
6.6
Kurosawa
as Narrator (voice)
2000
6.7
All the Pretty Horses
as J.C. Franklin
2000
5.7
One Kill
as Maj. Nelson Gray
2000
6.3
Hamlet
as Ghost
2000
5.8
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Arthur Chambers
1999
6.0
Dash and Lilly
as Dashiell Hammett
1999
8.0
Purgatory
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
1999
7.2
Curtain Call
as Will Dodge
1998
5.0
The Only Thrill
as Reece McHenry
1997
4.9
Lily Dale
as Pete Davenport
1996
2.0
Streets of Laredo
as Pea Eye Parker
1995
6.3
The Good Old Boys
as Tarnell
1995
6.7
Dear Antonioni
as Self
1995
0.0
Safe Passage
as Patrick
1994
6.0
Made in the USA
as Self
1993
2.0
The Pelican Brief
as Thomas Callahan
1993
6.6
Thunderheart
as Frank Coutelle
1992
6.3
Defenseless
as Det. Beutel
1991
5.0
Voyager
as Walter Faber
1991
6.2
Bright Angel
as Jack Russell
1990
4.8
Steel Magnolias
as Spud Jones
1989
7.2
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
0.0
Baby Boom
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
1987
6.4
Crimes of the Heart
as Doc Porter
1986
6.0
Fool for Love
as Eddie
1985
5.8
Country
as Gil Ivy
1984
6.4
The Right Stuff
as Chuck Yeager
1983
7.4
Frances
as Harry York
1982
6.9
Raggedy Man
as Bailey
1981
5.3
Resurrection
as Cal
1980
6.5
Days of Heaven
as The Farmer
1978
7.5
Renaldo and Clara
as Rodeo
1978
8.3
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.3
Brand X
1970
4.0
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
1968
6.5
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.1