Sam Shepard
Birthday
1943/11/05
Day of death
2017/07/27 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Samuel Shepard Rogers, Сем Шепард, سم شپارد, سام شپارد
Biography
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child (which was nominated for five Tony Awards) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Righ...Read more
Acting
(2001) Black Hawk Down
as MG William F. Garrison
(1991) Voyager
as Walter Faber
(2005) Stealth
as George Cummings
(2006) The Return
as Ed Mills
(1982) Frances
as Harry York
(2005) Don't Come Knocking
as Howard
(2006) Bandidas
as Bill Buck
(2000) Hamlet
as Ghost
(1989) Steel Magnolias
as Spud Jones
(2007) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Frank James
(2004) The Notebook
as Frank Calhoun
(1987) Baby Boom
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
(2001) The Pledge
as Eric Pollack
(2008) Patti Smith: Dream of Life
as Self
(2002) Leo
as Vic
(1999) Purgatory
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
(2003) Blind Horizon
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
(1992) Thunderheart
as Frank Coutelle
(2001) Swordfish
as Senator Reisman
(1983) The Right Stuff
as Chuck Yeager
(2010) Inhale
as James Harrison
(1993) The Pelican Brief
as Thomas Callahan
(2008) Felon
as Gordon
(2006) Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)
(2008) The Accidental Husband
as Wilder
(1984) Country
as Gil Ivy
(1991) Defenseless
as Det. Beutel
(1978) Days of Heaven
as The Farmer
(2012) Killing Them Softly
as Dillon
(1986) Crimes of the Heart
as Doc Porter
(1998) Curtain Call
as Will Dodge
(1994) Safe Passage
as Patrick
(2011) Blackthorn
as James Blackthorn
(1985) Fool for Love
as Eddie
(2000) All the Pretty Horses
as J.C. Franklin
(2000) Kurosawa
as Narrator (voice)
(2012) Safe House
as Harlan Whitford
(1981) Raggedy Man
as Bailey
(1990) Bright Angel
as Jack Russell
(2012) Darling Companion
as Sheriff Morris
(1980) Resurrection
as Cal
(2013) Mud
as Tom
(2001) Shot in the Heart
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
(2001) After the Harvest
as Caleb Gare
(2013) August: Osage County
as Beverly Weston
(2013) Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
as Self
(2007) Ruffian
as Frank Whiteley
(2013) Out of the Furnace
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
(1999) Dash and Lilly
as Dashiell Hammett
(2013) Savannah
as Mr. Stubbs
(1996) Lily Dale
as Pete Davenport
(2002) Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
(2014) Cold in July
as Russell
(1997) The Only Thrill
as Reece McHenry
(2009) Brothers
as Hank Cahill
(2012) Shepard & Dark
as Self
(1978) Renaldo and Clara
as Rodeo
(1995) The Good Old Boys
as Tarnell
(2017) Never Here
as Paul Stark
(2015) Ithaca
as Willie Grogan
(2016) Midnight Special
as Calvin Meyer
(2000) One Kill
as Maj. Nelson Gray
(1999) Snow Falling on Cedars
as Arthur Chambers
(2007) The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
as Self
(2005) Trudell
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
(1993) Made in the USA
as Self
(2016) In Dubious Battle
as Mr. Anderson
(2006) Walker Payne
as Syrus
(1970) Brand X
as ---
(2003) This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"
as Self
(2017) California Typewriter
as Self
(1988) MaMa's Pushcart
as ---
(1995) Dear Antonioni
as Self
(2019) Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as The Writer
(2010) Fair Game
as Sam Plame
(1995) Streets of Laredo
as Pea Eye Parker
(2014) Klondike
as Father Judge
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
(2015) Bloodline
as Robert Rayburn
(1968) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited)
(1971) Great Performances
as Self