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