Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, and a record 10 Obie Awards. He was nominated for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. The New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
actor
2019
California Typewriter
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2017
Buried Child
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2016
In Dubious Battle
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2016
Midnight Special
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2016
Ithaca
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2015
Cold in July
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2014
August: Osage County
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2013
Out of the Furnace
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2013
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
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2013
Mud
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2013
Savannah
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2013
Killing Them Softly
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2012
Safe House
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2012
Blackthorn
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2011
Inhale
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2010
Fair Game
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2010
Brothers
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2009
Felon
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2008
The Accidental Husband
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2008
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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2007
Ruffian
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2007
Charlotte's Web
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2006
The Return
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2006
Walker Payne
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2006
Bandidas
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2006
Don't Come Knocking
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2005
Don't Come Knocking
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2005
Stealth
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2005
The Notebook
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2004
Blind Horizon
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2003
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
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2002
Leo
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2002
Black Hawk Down
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2001
Swordfish
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2001
The Pledge
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2001
Kurosawa
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2000
All the Pretty Horses
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2000
Hamlet
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2000
Snow Falling on Cedars
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1999
Simpatico
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1999
Purgatory
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1999
Curtain Call
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1998
The Only Thrill
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1997
Lily Dale
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1996
The Good Old Boys
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1995
Silent Tongue
director
1994
Silent Tongue
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1994
The Pelican Brief
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1993
Thunderheart
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1992
Defenseless
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1991
Bright Angel
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1990
Steel Magnolias
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1989
Far North
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1988
Far North
director
1988
Baby Boom
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1987
Crimes of the Heart
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1986
Country
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1984
Paris, Texas
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1984
True West
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1984
The Right Stuff
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1983
Frances
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1982
Raggedy Man
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1981
Resurrection
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1980
Days of Heaven
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1978
Zabriskie Point
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1970
