Sam Shepard
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.
Acting
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The Notebook
as Frank Calhoun
2004
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Black Hawk Down
as MG William F. Garrison
2001
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Brothers
as Hank Cahill
2009
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Safe House
as Harlan Whitford
2012
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Mud
as Tom
2013
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Swordfish
as Senator Reisman
2001
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Frank James
2007
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Killing Them Softly
as Dillon
2012
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Out of the Furnace
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013
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Midnight Special
as Calvin Meyer
2016
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The Pelican Brief
as Thomas Callahan
1993
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August: Osage County
as Beverly Weston
2013
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Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)
2006
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The Pledge
as Eric Pollack
2001
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Days of Heaven
as The Farmer
1978
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Bandidas
as Bill Buck
2006
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Stealth
as George Cummings
2005
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Felon
as Gordon
2008
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The Right Stuff
as Chuck Yeager
1983
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Fair Game
as Sam Plame
2010
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Cold in July
as Russell
2014
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Steel Magnolias
as Spud Jones
1989
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The Return
as Ed Mills
2006
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The Accidental Husband
as Wilder
2008
Crew
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Paris, Texas
Writer
1984
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Zabriskie Point
Screenplay
1970
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Tesla
In Memory Of
2020
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Don't Come Knocking
Writer
2005
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Fool for Love
Theatre Play
1985
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Simpatico
Theatre Play
1999
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Silent Tongue
Director
1994
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Renaldo and Clara
Writer
1978
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Oh! Calcutta!
Writer
1972
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Far North
Director
1988
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Curse of the Starving Class
Writer
1994
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True West
Writer
2002