Sam Shepard
Acting
Born November 5, 1943 · 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.
Directed (2)
Acting (75)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
California Typewriter
2017
Never Here
2017
In Dubious Battle
2016
Midnight Special
2016
Ithaca
2015
Cold in July
2014
August: Osage County
2013
Out of the Furnace
2013
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Mud
2013
Savannah
2013
Shepard & Dark
2012
Killing Them Softly
2012
Darling Companion
2012
Safe House
2012
Blackthorn
2011
Inhale
2010
Fair Game
2010
Brothers
2009
Felon
2008
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
The Accidental Husband
2008
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Ruffian
2007
Charlotte's Web
2006
The Return
2006
Walker Payne
2006
Bandidas
2006
Don't Come Knocking
2005
Stealth
2005
Trudell
2005
The Notebook
2004
Blind Horizon
2003
This So-Called Disaster
2003
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Leo
2002
Black Hawk Down
2001
Shot in the Heart
2001
Swordfish
2001
After the Harvest
2001
The Pledge
2001
Kurosawa
2000
All the Pretty Horses
2000
One Kill
2000
Hamlet
2000
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
Dash and Lilly
1999
Purgatory
1999
Curtain Call
1998
The Only Thrill
1997
Lily Dale
1996
The Good Old Boys
1995
Dear Antonioni
1995
Safe Passage
1994
Made in the USA
1993
The Pelican Brief
1993
Thunderheart
1992
Defenseless
1991
Voyager
1991
Bright Angel
1990
Steel Magnolias
1989
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Baby Boom
1987
Crimes of the Heart
1986
Fool for Love
1985
Country
1984
The Right Stuff
1983
Frances
1982
Raggedy Man
1981
Resurrection
1980
Days of Heaven
1978
Renaldo and Clara
1978
Brand X
1970