Highest rated as cast or director
Days of Heaven
1978
The Right Stuff
1983
Mud
2013
Cold in July
2014
Thunderheart
1992
The Pledge
2001
Biography
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.
Acted in 66
2010s
- 2019
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
78Mud
Tom
- 2012
- 2011
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
- 2010
Inhale
James Harrison
2000s
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
- 2006
Walker Payne
Syrus
- 2005
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
Leo
Vic
- 2001
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare
- 2000
One Kill
Maj. Nelson Gray
Hamlet
Ghost
1990s
- 1999
Snow Falling on Cedars
Arthur Chambers
Dash and Lilly
Dashiell Hammett
Purgatory
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
- 1998
Curtain Call
Will Dodge
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
Streets of Laredo
Pea Eye Parker · 3 episodes
The Good Old Boys
Tarnell
- 1994
Safe Passage
Patrick
- 1993
- 1992
- 1991
- 1990
1980s
- 1989
- 1988
MaMa's Pushcart
Movie
- 1987
- 1986
- 1985
- 1984
Country
Gil Ivy
- 1983
- 1982
- 1981
Raggedy Man
Bailey
- 1980
Resurrection
Cal
1970s
- 1978
Renaldo and Clara
Rodeo
- 1970
Brand X
Movie
Wrote 19
2010s
- 2016
Buried Child
Writer
True West
Writer
2000s
- 2005
Don't Come Knocking
Writer
- 2004
See You in My Dreams
Short Story, Writer
- 2002
True West
Writer
1990s
- 1999
- 1994
Curse of the Starving Class
Writer
1980s
- 1988
- 1985
Alive from Off Center
Writer
- 1984
True West
Writer
- 1982
- 1981
Savage/Love
Writer
1970s
- 1978
Renaldo and Clara
Writer
- 1972
Oh! Calcutta!
Writer
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
Me and My Brother
Writer
Directed 2
1990s
- 1994
1980s
- 1988
Other crew 2
2020s
- 2020
2010s
- 2013
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Acting Double
Appearances17
2010s
- 2017
- 2013
- 2012
Shepard & Dark
Self
2000s
- 2008
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
- 2007
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self
- 2006
- 2005
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
- 2003
This So-Called Disaster
Self
- 2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
- 2000
Kurosawa
Narrator (voice)
1990s
- 1995
Dear Antonioni
Self
- 1993
Made in the USA
Self
1970s
- 1971
