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