Cast & creator
Sam Shepard
Best known for Great Performances, American Playhouse, American Playhouse
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.
Also known as: Samuel Shepard Rogers, Сем Шепард, سم شپارد, سام شپارد
102
film credits
9
television credits
82
1956–2020 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (111)
Showing 111 of 111 credits
Great Performances
Self
1971
American Playhouse
Writer
1982American Playhouse
Theatre Play
1982
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
The Notebook
Frank Calhoun
2004
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
1968
Black Hawk Down
Garrison
2001
Bloodline
Robert Rayburn
2015
Safe House
Harlan Whitford
2012
Paris, Texas
Writer
1984
Brothers
Hank Cahill
2009
Swordfish
Senator Reisman
2001
The Pelican Brief
Thomas Callahan
1993
Charlotte's Web
Narrator (voice)
2006
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank James
2007
Steel Magnolias
Spud Jones
1989
Killing Them Softly
Dillon
2012
August: Osage County
Beverly Weston
2013
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
2016
Klondike
Father Judge
2014
Fair Game
Sam Plame
2010
The Right Stuff
Chuck Yeager
1983
Out of the Furnace
Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013
The Pledge
Eric Pollack
2001
Days of Heaven
The Farmer
1978
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
2016
The Accidental Husband
Wilder
2008
Mud
Tom
2013
Stealth
George Cummings
2005
Thunderheart
Frank Coutelle
1992
Baby Boom
Dr. Jeff Cooper
1987
Alive from Off Center
Writer
1985
Cold in July
Russell
2014
Bandidas
Bill Buck
2006
Felon
Gordon
2008
Tesla
In Memory Of
2020
Streets of Laredo
Pea Eye Parker
1995
Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur Chambers
1999
All the Pretty Horses
J.C. Franklin
2000
Zabriskie Point
Screenplay
1970
Darling Companion
Sheriff Morris
2012
The Return
Ed Mills
2006
Blind Horizon
Sheriff Jack Kolb
2003
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
2019
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
2011
Crimes of the Heart
Doc Porter
1986
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
2005Don't Come Knocking
Writer
2005
Purgatory
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
1999
Frances
Harry York
1982
Oh! Calcutta!
Writer
1972
Curtain Call
Will Dodge
1998
Defenseless
Det. Beutel
1991
Never Here
Paul Stark
2017
Simpatico
Theatre Play
1999
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
2013
Ithaca
Willie Grogan
2015
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
2005
Savannah
Mr. Stubbs
2013
Bright Angel
Jack Russell
1990
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
2001
Hamlet
Ghost
2000
Raggedy Man
Bailey
1981
Inhale
James Harrison
2010
Kurosawa
Narrator (voice)
2000
This So-Called Disaster
Self
2003
The Good Old Boys
Tarnell
1995
Curse of the Starving Class
Writer
1994
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
2007
Far North
Director
1988Far North
Writer
1988
Silent Tongue
Director
1994Silent Tongue
Writer
1994
Lily Dale
Pete Davenport
1996
Voyager
Walter Faber
1991
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
2008
The Only Thrill
Reece McHenry
1997
True West
Writer
2002
Fool for Love
Eddie
1985Fool for Love
Theatre Play
1985Fool for Love
Screenplay
1985
Safe Passage
Patrick
1994
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
Self
2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
2002
Me and My Brother
Writer
1969
One Kill
Maj. Nelson Gray
2000
Resurrection
Cal
1980
Leo
Vic
2002
California Typewriter
Self
2017
Dear Antonioni
Self
1995
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Acting Double
2013
See You in My Dreams
Short Story
2004See You in My Dreams
Writer
2004
Brand X
1970
Dash and Lilly
Dashiell Hammett
1999Ages of the Moon
Theatre Play
Buried Child
Writer
2016
Renaldo and Clara
Rodeo
1978Renaldo and Clara
Writer
1978
Made in the USA
Self
1993
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare
2001
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self
2007
Walker Payne
Syrus
2006
Country
Gil Ivy
1984
True West
Writer
1984
True West
Writer
2016
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Shepard & Dark
Self
2012Tongues
Music
1982Tongues
Writer
1982
Savage/Love
Writer
1981