Sam Shepard

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Acting

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

• Tesla (2020)
• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
• California Typewriter (2017)
• Never Here (2017)
• Buried Child (2016)
• In Dubious Battle (2016)
• Midnight Special (2016)
• True West (2016)
• Ithaca (2015)
• Cold in July (2014)
• August: Osage County (2013)
• The Assassination of President Kennedy (2013)
• Out of the Furnace (2013)
• Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)
• Mud (2013)
• Savannah (2013)
• Shepard & Dark (2012)
• Killing Them Softly (2012)
• Darling Companion (2012)
• Safe House (2012)
• Blackthorn (2011)
• Inhale (2010)
• Fair Game (2010)
• Brothers (2009)
• Felon (2008)
• Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)
• The Accidental Husband (2008)
• The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2007)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
• Ruffian (2007)
• Charlotte's Web (2006)
• The Return (2006)
• Walker Payne (2006)
• Bandidas (2006)
• Don't Come Knocking (2005)
• Stealth (2005)
• Trudell (2005)
• The Notebook (2004)
• See You in My Dreams (2004)
• Blind Horizon (2003)
• This So-Called Disaster (2003)
• Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
• The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' (2002)
• True West (2002)
• Leo (2002)
• Black Hawk Down (2001)
• Shot in the Heart (2001)
• Swordfish (2001)
• After the Harvest (2001)
• The Pledge (2001)
• Kurosawa (2000)
• All the Pretty Horses (2000)
• One Kill (2000)
• Hamlet (2000)
• Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
• Simpatico (1999)
• Dash and Lilly (1999)
• Purgatory (1999)
• Curtain Call (1998)
• The Only Thrill (1997)
• Lily Dale (1996)
• The Good Old Boys (1995)
• Dear Antonioni (1995)
• Safe Passage (1994)
• Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
• Silent Tongue (1994)
• Made in the USA (1993)
• The Pelican Brief (1993)
• Thunderheart (1992)
• Defenseless (1991)
• Voyager (1991)
• Bright Angel (1990)
• Steel Magnolias (1989)
• Far North (1988)
• MaMa's Pushcart (1988)
• Baby Boom (1987)
• Crimes of the Heart (1986)
• Fool for Love (1985)
• Country (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• True West (1984)
• The Right Stuff (1983)
• Frances (1982)
• Tongues (1982)
• Raggedy Man (1981)
• Savage/Love (1981)
• Resurrection (1980)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• Renaldo and Clara (1978)
• Oh! Calcutta! (1972)
• Brand X (1970)
• Zabriskie Point (1970)
• Me and My Brother (1969)
• Ages of the Moon