Acting
Sam Shepard
Born Nov 5, 1943 · Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA · Died Jul 27, 2017
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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Acting
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
Documentary · Music
California Typewriter
2017
Documentary
Never Here
2017
Drama · Thriller
In Dubious Battle
2016
Drama
Midnight Special
2016
Adventure · Drama · Science Fiction
Ithaca
2015
Drama
Bloodline
2015
Drama
Cold in July
2014
Drama · Thriller
Klondike
2014
Drama · Western
August: Osage County
2013
Comedy · Drama
Out of the Furnace
2013
Thriller · Drama · Crime
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Documentary
Mud
2013
Drama
Savannah
2013
Romance · History · Drama
Shepard & Dark
2012
Documentary
Killing Them Softly
2012
Crime · Thriller
Darling Companion
2012
Drama · Romance · Comedy
Safe House
2012
Action · Thriller
Blackthorn
2011
Adventure · Action · Western
Inhale
2010
Drama · Action · Thriller
Fair Game
2010
Drama · Thriller
Brothers
2009
Drama · Thriller · War
Felon
2008
Crime · Drama · Thriller
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
Documentary · Music
The Accidental Husband
2008
Comedy · Romance
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007
Documentary · Music
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Drama · Western
Ruffian
2007
Drama · TV Movie
Charlotte's Web
2006
Comedy · Family · Fantasy
The Return
2006
Horror · Drama · Thriller
Walker Payne
2006
Drama
Bandidas
2006
Action · Comedy · Western
Don't Come Knocking
2005
Drama · Western
Stealth
2005
Science Fiction
Trudell
2005
Documentary
The Notebook
2004
Romance · Drama
Blind Horizon
2003
Thriller
This So-Called Disaster
2003
Documentary
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Documentary
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
2002
Documentary · War
Leo
2002
Drama
Black Hawk Down
2001
Action · War · History
Shot in the Heart
2001
Drama · TV Movie
Swordfish
2001
Action · Crime · Thriller
After the Harvest
2001
Drama
The Pledge
2001
Crime · Drama · Mystery
Kurosawa
2000
Documentary
All the Pretty Horses
2000
Drama · Romance · Western
One Kill
2000
Crime · Drama · TV Movie
Hamlet
2000
Drama · Thriller
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
Drama · Romance
Dash and Lilly
1999
Drama · TV Movie
Purgatory
1999
Fantasy · Western · TV Movie
Curtain Call
1998
Romance · Science Fiction · Comedy
The Only Thrill
1997
Drama · Romance
Lily Dale
1996
Drama · TV Movie
Streets of Laredo
1995
Western · Drama
The Good Old Boys
1995
Western · Adventure · TV Movie
Dear Antonioni
1995
Documentary
Safe Passage
1994
Drama
Made in the USA
1993
Documentary
The Pelican Brief
1993
Thriller · Drama
Thunderheart
1992
Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Defenseless
1991
Thriller · Mystery
Voyager
1991
Romance · Drama
Bright Angel
1990
Drama · Thriller
Steel Magnolias
1989
Drama · Comedy
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Documentary
Baby Boom
1987
Drama · Comedy · Romance
Crimes of the Heart
1986
Comedy · Drama
Fool for Love
1985
Drama
Country
1984
Drama
The Right Stuff
1983
Drama · History
Frances
1982
Drama
Raggedy Man
1981
Drama
Resurrection
1980
Drama · Fantasy
Days of Heaven
1978
Drama · Romance
Renaldo and Clara
1978
Drama · Music · Documentary
Brand X
1970
Comedy
Directed
Written
Buried Child
2016
Drama
True West
2016
Comedy · Drama
Don't Come Knocking
2005
Drama · Western
See You in My Dreams
2004
Drama · Western · TV Movie
True West
2002
Comedy · Drama · TV Movie
