Actor
Sam Shepard
November 5, 1943 · Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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.
Notable work
7.9The Notebook (2004)
as Frank Calhoun
7.4Black Hawk Down (2001)
as MG William F. Garrison
7.3Brothers (2009)
as Hank Cahill
6.5Safe House (2012)
as Harlan Whitford
7.1Mud (2013)
as Tom
6.3Swordfish (2001)
as Senator Reisman
7.1The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
as Frank James
6Killing Them Softly (2012)
as Dillon
8.1Paris, Texas (1984)
Writer
6.6Out of the Furnace (2013)
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
6.3Midnight Special (2016)
as Calvin Meyer
6.6The Pelican Brief (1993)
as Thomas Callahan
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