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Sam Shepard
Known for: ActingSamuel 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.
Filmography 65
Black Hawk Down
+11
as Garrison 
The Notebook
+4
as Frank Calhoun 
Swordfish
+6
as Senator Reisman 
Paris, Texas
+7
Writer 
Charlotte's Web
+9
as Narrator (voice) 
The Pelican Brief
+4
as Thomas Callahan 
Safe House
+8
as Harlan Whitford 
In Dubious Battle
+15
as Mr. Anderson 
Steel Magnolias
+8
as Spud Jones 
Brothers
as Hank Cahill 
August: Osage County
+19
as Beverly Weston 
The Right Stuff
+3
as Chuck Yeager 
The Accidental Husband
+6
as Wilder 
The Pledge
+16
as Eric Pollack 
Days of Heaven
+9
as The Farmer 
Bandidas
+4
as Bill Buck 
Out of the Furnace
+7
as Gerald 'Red' Baze 
Fair Game
+11
as Sam Plame 
Klondike
as Father Judge 
Killing Them Softly
+12
as Dillon 
Midnight Special
+3
as Calvin Meyer 
Streets of Laredo
+9
as Pea Eye Parker 
Mud
+9
as Tom 
Felon
+6
as Gordon 
Stealth
+4
as George Cummings 
Thunderheart
+4
as Frank Coutelle 
Cold in July
+13
as Russell 
All the Pretty Horses
+4
as J.C. Franklin 
The Return
+2
as Ed Mills 
Baby Boom
+13
as Dr. Jeff Cooper 
Defenseless
+8
as Det. Beutel 
Zabriskie Point
Screenplay 
Snow Falling on Cedars
+2
as Arthur Chambers 
Purgatory
+2
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock 
Don't Come Knocking
+2
as Howard 
Blind Horizon
+8
as Sheriff Jack Kolb 
Darling Companion
+6
as Sheriff Morris 
Blackthorn
+7
as James Blackthorn 
Frances
+4
as Harry York 
Crimes of the Heart
+10
as Doc Porter 
Savannah
+2
as Mr. Stubbs 
Curtain Call
as Will Dodge 
The Good Old Boys
as Tarnell 
Fool for Love
+5
as Eddie 
Silent Tongue
+10
Director, Writer 
Inhale
as James Harrison 
The Only Thrill
+13
as Reece McHenry 
Hamlet
as Ghost 
Voyager
+17
as Walter Faber 
Ithaca
+9
as Willie Grogan 
Trudell
+4
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart) 
Never Here
+10
as Paul Stark 
See You in My Dreams
+6
Writer 
Resurrection
+3
as Cal 
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
+4
as Self 
Bright Angel
+5
as Jack Russell 
Lily Dale
+7
as Pete Davenport 
Raggedy Man
+3
as Bailey 
Buried Child
Writer 
California Typewriter
+12
as Self 
Far North
+4
Director, Writer