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Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard’s screen credits include Frank Calhoun in The Notebook, Garrison in Black Hawk Down, and Thomas Callahan in The Pelican Brief.
Born November 5, 1943† July 27, 2017 Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA3 movies on MoviHero
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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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- 2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin ScorseseThe Writer
- 2017California TypewriterSelf
- 2017Never HerePaul Stark
- 2016Buried ChildWriter
- 2016In Dubious BattleMr. Anderson
- 2016Midnight SpecialCalvin Meyer
- 2016True WestWriter
- 2015IthacaWillie Grogan
- 2014Cold in JulyRussell
- 2013August: Osage CountyBeverly Weston
- 2013Out of the FurnaceGerald 'Red' Baze
- 2013Harry Dean Stanton: Partly FictionSelf
- 2013MudTom
- 2013SavannahMr. Stubbs
- 2012Shepard & DarkSelf
- 2012Killing Them SoftlyDillon
- 2012Darling CompanionSheriff Morris
- 2012Safe HouseHarlan Whitford
- 2011BlackthornJames Blackthorn
- 2010InhaleJames Harrison
- 2010Fair GameSam Plame
- 2009BrothersHank Cahill
- 2008FelonGordon
- 2008Patti Smith: Dream of LifeSelf
- 2008The Accidental HusbandWilder
- 2007The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to LoseSelf
- 2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordFrank James
- 2007RuffianFrank Whiteley
- 2006Charlotte's WebNarrator (voice)
- 2006The ReturnEd Mills
- 2006Walker PayneSyrus
- 2006BandidasBill Buck
- 2005Don't Come KnockingWriter · Howard
- 2005StealthGeorge Cummings
- 2005TrudellSelf - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
- 2004See You in My DreamsWriter
- 2003Blind HorizonSheriff Jack Kolb
- 2003This So-Called DisasterSelf
- 2002Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence MalickSelf
- 2002The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'Self
- 2002True WestWriter
- 2002LeoVic
- 2001Shot in the HeartFrank Gilmore, Sr.
- 2001SwordfishSenator Reisman
- 2001After the HarvestCaleb Gare
- 2001The PledgeEric Pollack
- 2000KurosawaNarrator (voice)
- 2000All the Pretty HorsesJ.C. Franklin
- 2000One KillMaj. Nelson Gray
- 2000HamletGhost
- 1999Snow Falling on CedarsArthur Chambers
- 1999Dash and LillyDashiell Hammett
- 1999PurgatorySheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
- 1998Curtain CallWill Dodge
- 1997The Only ThrillReece McHenry
- 1996Lily DalePete Davenport
- 1995The Good Old BoysTarnell
- 1995Dear AntonioniSelf
- 1994Safe PassagePatrick
- 1994Curse of the Starving ClassWriter
- 1994Silent TongueDirector · Writer
- 1993Made in the USASelf
- 1992ThunderheartFrank Coutelle
- 1991DefenselessDet. Beutel
- 1991VoyagerWalter Faber
- 1990Bright AngelJack Russell
- 1989Steel MagnoliasSpud Jones
- 1988Far NorthDirector · Writer
- 1988MaMa's PushcartActor
- 1987Baby BoomDr. Jeff Cooper
- 1986Crimes of the HeartDoc Porter
- 1985Fool for LoveWriter · Eddie
- 1984CountryGil Ivy
- 1984Paris, TexasWriter
- 1984True WestWriter
- 1983The Right StuffChuck Yeager
- 1982FrancesHarry York
- 1982TonguesWriter
- 1981Raggedy ManBailey
- 1981Savage/LoveWriter
- 1980ResurrectionCal
- 1978Days of HeavenThe Farmer
- 1978Renaldo and ClaraWriter · Rodeo
- 1972Oh! Calcutta!Writer
- 1970Brand XActor
- 1970Zabriskie PointWriter
- 1969Me and My BrotherWriter
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