🎬Sam Shepard

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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)	The Writer		5
2	Never Here (2017)	Paul Stark	-	-
3	California Typewriter (2017)	Self	-	-
4	In Dubious Battle (2016)	Mr. Anderson		7
5	Midnight Special (2016)	Calvin Meyer		7
6	Ithaca (2015)	Willie Grogan		7
7	Cold in July (2014)	Russell		6.8
8	August: Osage County (2013) Oscars 2014	Beverly Weston		7.6
9	Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)	Self	-	-
10	Out of the Furnace (2013)	Gerald 'Red' Baze		6.1
11	Mud (2013)	Tom		7.3
12	Darling Companion (2012)	Sheriff Morris		5.5
13	Killing Them Softly (2012)	Dillon		6.3
14	Safe House (2012)	Harlan Whitford		7.1
15	Blackthorn (2011)	James Blackthorn		5.5
16	Inhale (2010)	James Harrison		6.4
17	Fair Game (2010)	Sam Plame		6.8
18	Brothers (2009)	Hank Cahill		6.9
19	The Accidental Husband (2008)	Wilder		5.5
20	Felon (2008)	Gordon		6.5
21	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Oscars 2008	Frank James		6.9
22	Bandidas (2006)	Bill Buck		5.8
23	The Return (2006)	Ed Mills		4.9
24	Charlotte's Web (2006)	Narrator (voice)		7.2
25	Stealth (2005)	George Cummings		5.6
26	The Notebook (2004)	Frank Calhoun		7.8
27	Blind Horizon (2003)	Sheriff Jack Kolb		5.5
28	Leo (2002)	Vic	-	-
29	The Pledge (2001)	Eric Pollack		6.6
30	Swordfish (2001)	Senator Reisman		6.7
31	Black Hawk Down (2001) Oscars 2002	MG William F. Garrison		7.6
32	Hamlet (2000)	Ghost		6
33	All the Pretty Horses (2000)	J.C. Franklin		7
34	Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Oscars 2000	Arthur Chambers		7
35	Purgatory (1999)	Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock		10
36	Curtain Call (1998)	Will Dodge		3
37	The Only Thrill (1997)	Reece McHenry	-	-
38	The Pelican Brief (1993)	Thomas Callahan		6.9
39	Thunderheart (1992)	Frank Coutelle	-	-
40	Defenseless (1991)	Det. Beutel	-	-
41	Steel Magnolias (1989)	Spud Jones		7.8
42	Baby Boom (1987)	Dr. Jeff Cooper		6
43	Crimes of the Heart (1986)	Doc Porter		9
44	Paris, Texas (1984)	Director / Writer		7.5
45	The Right Stuff (1983)	Chuck Yeager		7.4
46	Frances (1982)	Harry York		8.5
47	Raggedy Man (1981)	Bailey	-	-
48	Resurrection (1980)	Cal		7
49	Days of Heaven (1978)	The Farmer		6.8
50	Zabriskie Point (1970)	Director / Writer		7