Sam Shepard

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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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2020
Tesla
Movie In Memory Of
2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Movie The Writer
2017
California Typewriter
Movie Self
2017
Never Here
Movie Paul Stark
2016
Buried Child
Movie Writer
2016
In Dubious Battle
Movie Mr. Anderson
2016
Midnight Special
Movie Calvin Meyer
2016
True West
Movie Writer
2015
Ithaca
Movie Willie Grogan
2015
Bloodline
TV show Robert Rayburn
2014
Cold in July
Movie Russell
2014
Klondike
TV show Father Judge
2013
August: Osage County
Movie Beverly Weston
2013
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Movie Acting Double
2013
Out of the Furnace
Movie Gerald 'Red' Baze
2013
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Movie Self

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2013
Mud
Movie Tom
2013
Savannah
Movie Mr. Stubbs
2012
Shepard & Dark
Movie Self
2012
Killing Them Softly
Movie Dillon
2012
Darling Companion
Movie Sheriff Morris
2012
Safe House
Movie Harlan Whitford
2011
Blackthorn
Movie James Blackthorn
2010
Inhale
Movie James Harrison
2010
Fair Game
Movie Sam Plame
2009
Brothers
Movie Hank Cahill
2008
Felon
Movie Gordon
2008
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Movie Self
2008
The Accidental Husband
Movie Wilder
2007
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Movie Self
2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Movie Frank James
2007
Ruffian
Movie Frank Whiteley
2006
Charlotte's Web
Movie Narrator (voice)
2006
The Return
Movie Ed Mills
2006
Walker Payne
Movie Syrus
2006
Bandidas
Movie Bill Buck
2005
Don't Come Knocking
Movie Howard
2005
Stealth
Movie George Cummings
2005
Trudell
Movie Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
2004
The Notebook
Movie Frank Calhoun