Sam Shepard

Personal Info

Birthday

November 5, 1943

Day of Death

2017-07-27

(73 years old)

Place of Birth

Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

Also Known As

Samuel Shepard Rogers

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Sam Shepard

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.

Known For

The Notebook

Bloodline

Black Hawk Down

Safe Passage

Brothers

Safe House

The Pledge

The Pelican Brief

Filmography

2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as The Writer
2017
California Typewriter
as Self
Never Here
as Paul Stark
2016
In Dubious Battle
as Mr. Anderson
Midnight Special
as Calvin Meyer
2015
Ithaca
as Willie Grogan
2014
Cold in July
as Russell
2013
August: Osage County
as Beverly Weston
Out of the Furnace
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
as Self
Mud
as Tom
Savannah
as Mr. Stubbs
2012
Shepard & Dark
as Self
Killing Them Softly
as Dillon
Darling Companion
as Sheriff Morris
Safe House
as Harlan Whitford
2011
Blackthorn
as James Blackthorn
2010
Inhale
as James Harrison
Fair Game
as Sam Plame
2009
Brothers
as Hank Cahill
2008
Felon
as Gordon
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
as Self
The Accidental Husband
as Wilder
2007
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
as Self
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Frank James
Ruffian
as Frank Whiteley
2006
Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)
The Return
as Ed Mills
Walker Payne
as Syrus
Bandidas
as Bill Buck
2005
Don't Come Knocking
as Howard
Stealth
as George Cummings
Trudell
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
2004
The Notebook
as Frank Calhoun
2003
Blind Horizon
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
This So-Called Disaster
as Self
2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
Leo
as Vic
2001
Black Hawk Down
as MG William F. Garrison
Shot in the Heart
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Swordfish
as Senator Reisman
After the Harvest
as Caleb Gare
The Pledge
as Eric Pollack
2000
Kurosawa
as Narrator (voice)
All the Pretty Horses
as J.C. Franklin
One Kill
as Maj. Nelson Gray
Hamlet
as Ghost
1999
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Arthur Chambers
Dash and Lilly
as Dashiell Hammett
Purgatory
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
1998
Curtain Call
as Will Dodge
1997
The Only Thrill
as Reece McHenry
1996
Lily Dale
as Pete Davenport
1995
The Good Old Boys
as Tarnell
Dear Antonioni
as Self
1994
Safe Passage
as Patrick
1993
Made in the USA
as Self
The Pelican Brief
as Thomas Callahan
1992
Thunderheart
as Frank Coutelle
1991
Defenseless
as Det. Beutel
Voyager
as Walter Faber
1990
Bright Angel
as Jack Russell
1989
Steel Magnolias
as Spud Jones
1987
Baby Boom
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
1986
Crimes of the Heart
as Doc Porter
1985
Fool for Love
as Eddie
1984
Country
as Gil Ivy
1983
The Right Stuff
as Chuck Yeager
1982
Frances
as Harry York
1981
Raggedy Man
as Bailey
1980
Resurrection
as Cal
1978
Days of Heaven
as The Farmer
Renaldo and Clara
as Rodeo