Sam Shepard

Birthday: 1943-11-05
Deathday: 2016-10-17
Birthplace: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Gender: Male
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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 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.

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Career Statisics

Season Age Movie Role Result Points
1984 41 The Right Stuff (1983) Supporting Actor Nom 0
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Transaction History

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Credits

Year Title Character
2019-06-11 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese The Writer
2017-06-18 Never Here Paul Stark
2016-10-08 In Dubious Battle Mr. Anderson
2016-02-18 Midnight Special Calvin Meyer
2015-10-29 Ithaca Willie Grogan
2014-05-23 Cold in July Russell
2013-12-26 August: Osage County Beverly Weston
2013-11-12 Out of the Furnace Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013-04-26 Mud Tom
2013-04-25 Savannah Mr. Stubbs
2012-07-30 Killing Them Softly Dillon
2012-04-20 Darling Companion Sheriff Morris
2012-02-08 Safe House Harlan Whitford
2011-07-01 Blackthorn James Blackthorn
2010-08-27 Inhale James Harrison
2010-05-20 Fair Game Sam Plame
2009-12-02 Brothers Hank Cahill
2008-07-17 Felon Gordon
2008-02-29 The Accidental Husband Wilder
2007-09-20 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Frank James
2007-06-09 Ruffian Frank Whiteley
2006-11-10 The Return Ed Mills
2006-04-27 Walker Payne Syrus
2006-01-18 Bandidas Bill Buck
2005-08-25 Don't Come Knocking Howard
2005-07-27 Stealth George Cummings
2004-05-25 The Notebook Frank Calhoun
2003-12-14 Blind Horizon Sheriff Jack Kolb
2002-03-12 Leo Vic
2001-12-28 Black Hawk Down MG William F. Garrison
2001-10-13 Shot in the Heart Frank Gilmore, Sr.
2001-06-08 Swordfish Senator Reisman
2001-05-29 After the Harvest Caleb Gare
2001-01-19 The Pledge Eric Pollack
2000-12-11 All the Pretty Horses J.C. Franklin
2000-08-06 One Kill Maj. Nelson Gray
2000-05-12 Hamlet Ghost
1999-12-22 Snow Falling on Cedars Arthur Chambers
1999-05-31 Dash and Lilly Dashiell Hammett
1999-01-10 Purgatory Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
1998-12-05 Curtain Call Will Dodge
1997-01-04 The Only Thrill Reece McHenry
1996-06-09 Lily Dale Pete Davenport
1995-03-05 The Good Old Boys Tarnell
1994-12-01 Safe Passage Patrick
1993-09-17 The Pelican Brief Thomas Callahan
1992-04-03 Thunderheart Frank Coutelle
1991-08-23 Defenseless Det. Beutel
1991-03-21 Voyager Walter Faber
1990-11-01 Bright Angel Jack Russell
1989-11-15 Steel Magnolias Spud Jones
1988-01-01 MaMa's Pushcart
1987-10-07 Baby Boom Dr. Jeff Cooper
1986-12-12 Crimes of the Heart Doc Porter
1985-12-06 Fool for Love Eddie
1984-09-29 Country Gil Ivy
1983-10-20 The Right Stuff Chuck Yeager
1982-12-03 Frances Harry York
1981-09-18 Raggedy Man Bailey
1980-09-26 Resurrection Cal
1978-09-13 Days of Heaven The Farmer
1978-01-25 Renaldo and Clara Rodeo
1970-05-18 Brand X