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.
81 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 81
Great Performances
1971
Tony Awards
1956
Black Hawk Down
2001
The Notebook
2004
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Bloodline
2015
Brothers
2009
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Mud
2013
Charlotte's Web
2006
Stealth
2005
Swordfish
2001
The Pelican Brief
1993
Steel Magnolias
1989
Safe House
2012
Klondike
2014
Out of the Furnace
2013
The Right Stuff
1983
Days of Heaven
1978
Killing Them Softly
2012
Felon
2008
Midnight Special
2016
Streets of Laredo
1995
Bandidas
2006
In Dubious Battle
2016
Thunderheart
1992
The Pledge
2001
Fair Game
2010
Baby Boom
1987
The Accidental Husband
2008
Frances
1982
All the Pretty Horses
2000
Purgatory
1999
Blackthorn
2011
August: Osage County
2013
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
Cold in July
2014
Inhale
2010
Ithaca
2015
Blind Horizon
2003
The Return
2006
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
Don't Come Knocking
2005
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Voyager
1991
Bright Angel
1990
Leo
2002
Hamlet
2000
Curtain Call
1998
Safe Passage
1994
Kurosawa
2000
Made in the USA
1993
Savannah
2013
The Good Old Boys
1995
Crimes of the Heart
1986
California Typewriter
2017
Darling Companion
2012
Never Here
2017
Raggedy Man
1981
Defenseless
1991
The Only Thrill
1997
Resurrection
1980
Walker Payne
2006
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Lily Dale
1996
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
Country
1984
This So-Called Disaster
2003
Trudell
2005
One Kill
2000
Shepard & Dark
2012
Ruffian
2007
Shot in the Heart
2001
Dash and Lilly
1999
Fool for Love
1985
Renaldo and Clara
1978
After the Harvest
2001
Brand X
1970
Dear Antonioni
1995
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
