Sam Shepard
Writing
🎂 1943-11-05
Samuel Shepard Rogers III 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.
Cast credits(81)
Self - Nominee
1956
Self
1971
Frank Calhoun
2004
Self (uncredited)
1968
MG William F. Garrison
2001
Robert Rayburn
2015
Hank Cahill
2009
Senator Reisman
2001
Harlan Whitford
2012
Frank James
2007
Thomas Callahan
1993
Narrator (voice)
2006
Dillon
2012
Eric Pollack
2001
Spud Jones
1989
George Cummings
2005
Sam Plame
2010
Wilder
2008
Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013
Tom
2013
Chuck Yeager
1983
The Farmer
1978
Howard
2005
Beverly Weston
2013
Dr. Jeff Cooper
1987
Gordon
2008
Father Judge
2014
Calvin Meyer
2016
Bill Buck
2006
Russell
2014
Frank Coutelle
1992
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
1999
Cal
1980
Arthur Chambers
1999
Self
1993
The Writer
2019
Self
2013
Ed Mills
2006
Harry York
1982
J.C. Franklin
2000
Pea Eye Parker
1995
Mr. Anderson
2016
James Blackthorn
2011
Sheriff Jack Kolb
2003
Self
2003
Bailey
1981
Paul Stark
2017
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
2005
Gil Ivy
1984
Willie Grogan
2015
Self
2008
Tarnell
1995
Sheriff Morris
2012
Will Dodge
1998
James Harrison
2010
Ghost
2000
Self
2002
Syrus
2006
Eddie
1985
Mr. Stubbs
2013
Vic
2002
1970
Pete Davenport
1996
Doc Porter
1986
Frank Whiteley
2007
Patrick
1994
Caleb Gare
2001
Walter Faber
1991
Rodeo
1978
Maj. Nelson Gray
2000
Self
2017
Self
2007
Det. Beutel
1991
Jack Russell
1990
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
2001
Reece McHenry
1997
Narrator (voice)
2000
Dashiell Hammett
1999
Self
2012
Self
1995
1988
