Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child (which was nominated for five Tony Awards) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 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 him as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. As an actor, his best known roles are as Calvin Meyer in Midnight Special, Robert Rayburn on Netflix's series Bloodline, Beverly Weston in August: Osage County, Harlan Whitford in Safe House, Hank Cahill in Brothers, Frank James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, George Cummings in Stealth, Frank Calhoun in The Notebook, Master General William F. Garrison in Black Hawk Down, J.C. Franklin in All the Pretty Horses, Thomas Callahan in The Pelican Brief, Frank Coutelle in Thunderheart, Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias, Dr. Jeff Cooper in Baby Boom, Doc Porter in Crimes of the Heart, and Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Over the years, he taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater. He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops, festivals, and universities. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986. From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress O-Lan Jones, with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (born 1970). From 1970 to 1971, he was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith. Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with him during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. In "Coyote", from her eighth studio album Hejira, she recounts his seduction of her at a period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with tour manager Christine O'Dell with the lines: "He's got a woman at home, another woman down the hall, but he seems to want me anyway." He met actress Jessica Lange on the set of the 1982 film Frances, in which they both acted. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009. They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987). In 2014 and 2015, he dated actress Mia Kirshner. His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld. A collection of Shepard and Dark's correspondence, Two Prospectors, was also published that year. He died on July 27, 2017, at his home in Midway, KY, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1943-11-05
Place of Birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Also Known As: Samuel Shepard Rogers, Сем Шепард

Movies List of Sam Shepard

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Black Hawk Down

2001 Movie
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Voyager

1991 Movie
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Stealth

2005 Movie
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The Return

2006 Movie
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Frances

1982 Movie
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Don't Come Knocking

2005 Movie
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Bandidas

2006 Movie
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Hamlet

2000 Movie
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Steel Magnolias

1989 Movie
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The Notebook

2004 Movie
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Baby Boom

1987 Movie
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The Pledge

2001 Movie
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Leo

2002 Movie
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Purgatory

1999 Movie
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Blind Horizon

2003 Movie
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Swordfish

2001 Movie
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Thunderheart

1992 Movie
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The Right Stuff

1983 Movie
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Inhale

2010 Movie
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The Pelican Brief

1993 Movie
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Felon

2008 Movie
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Charlotte's Web

2006 Movie
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Country

1984 Movie
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Defenseless

1991 Movie
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Days of Heaven

1978 Movie
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Killing Them Softly

2012 Movie
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Crimes of the Heart

1986 Movie
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Curtain Call

1998 Movie
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Safe Passage

1994 Movie
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Blackthorn

2011 Movie
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Fool for Love

1985 Movie
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All the Pretty Horses

2000 Movie
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Kurosawa

2000 Movie
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Safe House

2012 Movie
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Raggedy Man

1981 Movie
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Bright Angel

1990 Movie
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Darling Companion

2012 Movie
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Resurrection

1980 Movie
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Mud

2013 Movie
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Shot in the Heart

2001 Movie
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After the Harvest

2001 Movie
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August: Osage County

2013 Movie
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Ruffian

2007 Movie
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Out of the Furnace

2013 Movie
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Dash and Lilly

1999 Movie
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Savannah

2013 Movie
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Lily Dale

1996 Movie
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Cold in July

2014 Movie
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The Only Thrill

1997 Movie
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Brothers

2009 Movie
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Shepard & Dark

2012 Movie
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Renaldo and Clara

1978 Movie
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The Good Old Boys

1995 Movie
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Never Here

2017 Movie
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Ithaca

2015 Movie
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Midnight Special

2016 Movie
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One Kill

2000 Movie
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Trudell

2005 Movie
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Made in the USA

1993 Movie
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In Dubious Battle

2016 Movie
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Walker Payne

2006 Movie
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Brand X

1970 Movie
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California Typewriter

2017 Movie
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MaMa's Pushcart

1988 Movie
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Dear Antonioni

1995 Movie
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Fair Game

2010 Movie