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.
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Films (95)
Tesla
2020 · In Memory Of
Rolling Thunder Revue : A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 · The Writer
California Typewriter
2017 · Self
Never Here
2017 · Paul Stark
Buried Child
2016 · Writer
Les Insoumis
2016 · Mr. Anderson
Midnight Special
2016 · Calvin Meyer
True West
2016 · Writer
Ithaca
2015 · Willie Grogan
Juillet de sang
2014 · Russell
Un été à Osage County
2013 · Beverly Weston
The Assassination of President Kennedy
2013 · Acting Double
Les Brasiers de la colère
2013 · Gerald 'Red' Baze
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013 · Self
Mud - Sur les rives du Mississippi
2013 · Tom
Savannah
2013 · Mr. Stubbs
Shepard & Dark
2012 · Self
Cogan : Killing Them Softly
2012 · Dillon
Freeway et nous
2012 · Sheriff Morris
Sécurité Rapprochée
2012 · Harlan Whitford
Blackthorn, la dernière chevauchée de Butch Cassidy
2011 · James Blackthorn
État de choc
2010 · James Harrison
Enjeux
2010 · Sam Plame
Frères
2009 · Hank Cahill
Felon
2008 · Gordon
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
2008 · Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008 · Self
Un Mari de trop
2008 · Wilder
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007 · Self
L'Assassinat de Jesse James par le lâche Robert Ford
2007 · Frank James
Ruffian
2007 · Frank Whiteley
Le Petit Monde de Charlotte
2006 · Narrator (voice)
Le retour
2006 · Ed Mills
Walker Payne
2006 · Syrus
Bandidas
2006 · Bill Buck
Don't come knocking
2005 · Howard, Writer
Furtif
2005 · George Cummings
Trudell
2005 · Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
N'oublie jamais
2004 · Frank Calhoun
See You in My Dreams
2004 · Short Story, Writer
Blind Horizon
2003 · Sheriff Jack Kolb
This So-Called Disaster
2003 · Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · Self
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
2002 · Self
True West
2002 · Writer
Leo
2002 · Vic
La Chute du faucon noir
2001 · Garrison
Shot in the Heart
2001 · Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Opération Espadon
2001 · Senator Reisman
After the Harvest
2001 · Caleb Gare
Asesino Oculto
2001 · Eric Pollack
Kurosawa
2000 · Narrator (voice)
De si jolis chevaux
2000 · J.C. Franklin
One Kill
2000 · Maj. Nelson Gray
Hamlet
2000 · Ghost
La neige tombait sur les cèdres
1999 · Arthur Chambers
Simpatico
1999 · Theatre Play
Dash and Lilly
1999 · Dashiell Hammett
La Ville des légendes de l'Ouest
1999 · Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Curtain Call
1998 · Will Dodge
Tennessee Valley
1997 · Reece McHenry
Lily Dale
1996 · Pete Davenport
Les Bons Vieux Garçons
1995 · Tarnell
Dear Antonioni
1995 · Self
Loin des yeux, près du cœur
1994 · Patrick
Curse of the Starving Class
1994 · Writer
Le Gardien des esprits
1994 · Director, Writer
Made in the USA
1993 · Self
L'Affaire Pélican
1993 · Thomas Callahan
Cœur de tonnerre
1992 · Frank Coutelle
Sans aucune défense
1991 · Det. Beutel
Homo Faber
1991 · Walter Faber
Bright Angel
1990 · Jack Russell
Steel Magnolias
1989 · Spud Jones
Far North
1988 · Director, Writer
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Baby Boom
1987 · Dr. Jeff Cooper
Crimes of the Heart
1986 · Doc Porter
Fool for Love
1985 · Eddie, Theatre Play, Screenplay
Country
1984 · Gil Ivy
Paris, Texas
1984 · Writer
True West
1984 · Writer
The Right Stuff
1983 · Chuck Yeager
Frances
1982 · Harry York
Tongues
1982 · Music, Writer
Raggedy Man
1981 · Bailey
Savage/Love
1981 · Writer
Resurrection
1980 · Cal
Days of Heaven
1978 · The Farmer
Renaldo and Clara
1978 · Rodeo, Writer
Oh! Calcutta!
1972 · Writer
Brand X
1970
Zabriskie Point
1970 · Screenplay
Me and My Brother
1969 · Writer
Ages of the Moon
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