Sam Shepard
Acting
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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Filmography of
Sam Shepard
... 2019
... 2017
Paul Stark
... 2017
Mr. Anderson
... 2016
Calvin Meyer
... 2016
Willie Grogan
... 2015
Russell
... 2014
Beverly Weston
... 2013
Gerald 'Red' Baze
... 2013
... 2013
Tom
... 2013
Mr. Stubbs
... 2013
Self
... 2012
Dillon
... 2012
Sheriff Morris
... 2012
Harlan Whitford
... 2012
James Blackthorn
... 2011
James Harrison
... 2010
Sam Plame
... 2010
Hank Cahill
... 2009
Gordon
... 2008
... 2008
Wilder
... 2008
... 2007
... 2007
Frank Whiteley
... 2007
Narrator (voice)
... 2006
Ed Mills
... 2006
Syrus
... 2006
Bill Buck
... 2006
Howard
... 2005
George Cummings
... 2005
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
... 2005
Frank Calhoun
... 2004
Sheriff Jack Kolb
... 2003
... 2003
... 2002
Vic
... 2002
MG William F. Garrison
... 2001
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
... 2001
Senator Reisman
... 2001
Caleb Gare
... 2001
Eric Pollack
... 2001
Narrator (voice)
... 2000
J.C. Franklin
... 2000
Maj. Nelson Gray
... 2000
Ghost
... 2000
Arthur Chambers
... 1999
Dashiell Hammett
... 1999
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
... 1999
Will Dodge
... 1998
Reece McHenry
... 1997
Pete Davenport
... 1996
Tarnell
... 1995
Self
... 1995
Patrick
... 1994
Self
... 1993
Thomas Callahan
... 1993
Frank Coutelle
... 1992
Det. Beutel
... 1991
Walter Faber
... 1991
Jack Russell
... 1990
Spud Jones
... 1989
... 1988
Dr. Jeff Cooper
... 1987
Doc Porter
... 1986
Eddie
... 1985
Gil Ivy
... 1984
Chuck Yeager
... 1983
Harry York
... 1982
Bailey
... 1981
Cal
... 1980
The Farmer
... 1978
Rodeo
... 1978
... 1970