Actor
Sam Shepard
Biography

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child (which was nominated for five Tony Awards) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Righ ...

Known For
Acting
2019 -- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | The Writer
2017 -- California Typewriter | Self
2017 -- Never Here | Paul Stark
2016 -- In Dubious Battle | Mr. Anderson
2016 -- Midnight Special | Calvin Meyer
2015 -- Ithaca | Willie Grogan
2014 -- Cold in July | Russell
2013 -- August: Osage County | Beverly Weston
2013 -- Out of the Furnace | Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013 -- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Self
2013 -- Mud | Tom
2013 -- Savannah | Mr. Stubbs
2012 -- Shepard & Dark | Self
2012 -- Killing Them Softly | Dillon
2012 -- Darling Companion | Sheriff Morris
2012 -- Safe House | Harlan Whitford
2011 -- Blackthorn | James Blackthorn
2010 -- Inhale | James Harrison
2010 -- Fair Game | Sam Plame
2009 -- Brothers | Hank Cahill
2008 -- Felon | Gordon
2008 -- Patti Smith: Dream of Life | Self
2008 -- The Accidental Husband | Wilder
2007 -- The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose | Self
2007 -- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Frank James
2007 -- Ruffian | Frank Whiteley
2006 -- Charlotte's Web | Narrator (voice)
2006 -- The Return | Ed Mills
2006 -- Walker Payne | Syrus
2006 -- Bandidas | Bill Buck
2005 -- Don't Come Knocking | Howard
2005 -- Stealth | George Cummings
2005 -- Trudell | Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
2004 -- The Notebook | Frank Calhoun
2003 -- Blind Horizon | Sheriff Jack Kolb
2003 -- This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss" | Self
2002 -- Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick | Self
2002 -- Leo | Vic
2001 -- Black Hawk Down | MG William F. Garrison
2001 -- Shot in the Heart | Frank Gilmore, Sr.
2001 -- Swordfish | Senator James Reisman
2001 -- After the Harvest | Caleb Gare
2001 -- The Pledge | Eric Pollack
2000 -- Kurosawa | Narrator (voice)
2000 -- All the Pretty Horses | J.C. Franklin
2000 -- One Kill | Maj. Nelson Gray
2000 -- Hamlet | Ghost
1999 -- Snow Falling on Cedars | Arthur Chambers
1999 -- Dash and Lilly | Dashiell Hammett
1999 -- Purgatory | Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
1998 -- Curtain Call | Will Dodge
1997 -- The Only Thrill | Reece McHenry
1996 -- Lily Dale | Pete Davenport
1995 -- The Good Old Boys | Tarnell
1995 -- Dear Antonioni | Self
1994 -- Safe Passage | Patrick
1993 -- Made in the USA | Self
1993 -- The Pelican Brief | Thomas Callahan
1992 -- Thunderheart | Frank Coutelle
1991 -- Defenseless | Det. Beutel
1991 -- Voyager | Walter Faber
1990 -- Bright Angel | Jack Russell
1989 -- Steel Magnolias | Spud Jones
1988 -- MaMa's Pushcart |
1987 -- Baby Boom | Dr. Jeff Cooper
1986 -- Crimes of the Heart | Doc Porter
1985 -- Fool for Love | Eddie
1984 -- Country | Gil Ivy
1983 -- The Right Stuff | Chuck Yeager
1982 -- Frances | Harry York
1981 -- Raggedy Man | Bailey
1980 -- Resurrection | Cal
1978 -- Days of Heaven | The Farmer
1978 -- Renaldo and Clara | Rodeo
1970 -- Brand X |
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