8.7
8.7
Ruffian
2007
as Frank Whiteley
Sam Shepard
Also known as: Samuel Shepard Rogers III, Samuel "Sam" Shepard Rogers III, Samuel Shepard Rogers IV
Acting
Born:November 5, 1943
Died:July 27, 2017(aged 73)
Birthplace:Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Mt. San Antonio College, Duarte High School, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (89 movies)
8.3
8.3
Renaldo and Clara
1978
Writer
8.1
8.1
Paris, Texas
1984
Writer
8.0
8.0
Dash and Lilly
1999
as Dashiell Hammett
7.9
7.9
True West
1984
Writer
7.9
7.9
The Notebook
2004
as Frank Calhoun
7.5
7.5
Days of Heaven
1978
as The Farmer
7.4
7.4
The Right Stuff
1983
as Chuck Yeager
7.4
7.4
True West
2002
Writer
7.4
7.4
Black Hawk Down
2001
as MG William F. Garrison
7.3
7.3
Brothers
2009
as Hank Cahill
7.2
7.2
Purgatory
1999
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
7.2
7.2
Steel Magnolias
1989
as Spud Jones
7.1
7.1
Felon
2008
as Gordon
7.1
7.1
Mud
2013
as Tom
7.0
7.0
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
as Frank James
7.0
7.0
Zabriskie Point
1970
Screenplay
7.0
7.0
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
as The Writer
6.9
6.9
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
as Self
6.9
6.9
California Typewriter
2017
as Self
6.9
6.9
Frances
1982
as Harry York
6.9
6.9
August: Osage County
2013
as Beverly Weston
6.7
6.7
The Good Old Boys
1995
as Tarnell
6.7
6.7
Kurosawa
2000
as Narrator (voice)
6.7
6.7
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self
6.6
6.6
Blackthorn
2011
as James Blackthorn
6.6
6.6
The Pelican Brief
1993
as Thomas Callahan
6.6
6.6
Out of the Furnace
2013
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
6.6
6.6
The Pledge
2001
as Eric Pollack
6.5
6.5
Cold in July
2014
as Russell
6.5
6.5
Safe House
2012
as Harlan Whitford
6.5
6.5
Fair Game
2010
as Sam Plame
6.4
6.4
Resurrection
1980
as Cal
6.4
6.4
Country
1984
as Gil Ivy
6.4
6.4
Baby Boom
1987
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
6.4
6.4
Me and My Brother
1969
Writer
6.3
6.3
One Kill
2000
as Maj. Nelson Gray
6.3
6.3
Thunderheart
1992
as Frank Coutelle
6.3
6.3
Far North
1988
Director
6.3
6.3
Midnight Special
2016
as Calvin Meyer
6.2
6.2
Swordfish
2001
as Senator Reisman
6.2
6.2
Charlotte's Web
2006
as Narrator (voice)
6.2
6.2
Don't Come Knocking
2005
Writer
6.1
6.1
Voyager
1991
as Walter Faber
6.0
6.0
Bandidas
2006
as Bill Buck
6.0
6.0
Killing Them Softly
2012
as Dillon
6.0
6.0
Crimes of the Heart
1986
as Doc Porter
6.0
6.0
Leo
2002
as Vic
6.0
6.0
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
as Arthur Chambers
6.0
6.0
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
as Self
6.0
6.0
The Return
2006
as Ed Mills
6.0
6.0
Inhale
2010
as James Harrison
5.9
5.9
Savannah
2013
as Mr. Stubbs
5.8
5.8
Safe Passage
1994
as Patrick
5.8
5.8
In Dubious Battle
2016
as Mr. Anderson
5.8
5.8
Hamlet
2000
as Ghost
5.7
5.7
All the Pretty Horses
2000
as J.C. Franklin
5.7
5.7
Blind Horizon
2003
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
5.6
5.6
Fool for Love
1985
Screenplay
5.6
5.6
Shot in the Heart
2001
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
5.5
5.5
The Accidental Husband
2008
as Wilder
5.5
5.5
Shepard & Dark
2012
as Self
5.5
5.5
Stealth
2005
as George Cummings
5.4
5.4
Trudell
2005
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
5.3
5.3
Raggedy Man
1981
as Bailey
5.3
5.3
Ithaca
2015
as Willie Grogan
5.0
5.0
Darling Companion
2012
as Sheriff Morris
5.0
5.0
Tongues
1982
Writer
4.9
4.9
Curtain Call
1998
as Will Dodge
4.9
4.9
Never Here
2017
as Paul Stark
4.9
4.9
Defenseless
1991
as Det. Beutel
4.6
4.6
This So-Called Disaster
2003
as Self
4.6
4.6
Silent Tongue
1993
Writer
4.5
4.5
Bright Angel
1990
as Jack Russell
4.4
4.4
The Only Thrill
1997
as Reece McHenry
4.3
4.3
Walker Payne
2006
as Syrus
3.8
3.8
Curse of the Starving Class
1994
Writer
3.3
3.3
Brand X
1970
2.6
2.6
Oh! Calcutta!
1972
Writer
2.0
2.0
Made in the USA
1993
as Self
2.0
2.0
Lily Dale
1996
as Pete Davenport
Dear Antonioni
1995
as Self
After the Harvest
2001
as Caleb Gare
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007
as Self
Savage/Love
1981
Writer
True West
2016
Writer
See You in My Dreams
2004
Writer
Buried Child
2016
Writer
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