Sam Shepard

Total Box Office:
 $619.8M
Highest Rated:
100% Paris, Texas (1983)
Lowest Rated:
6% The Accidental Husband (2008)
Birthday:
Nov 5
Birthplace:
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Bio:
A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (for 1979's Buried Child), an Oscar-nominated actor, and a director and screenwriter to boot, multi-talented Sam Shepard has made a career of plumbing the darker depths of middle-American rural sensibilities and Western myths. The son of a military man, he was…

Filmography


MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
95% Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
  • Actor
-- 2013
Out of the Furnace
  • Actor
-- 2013
98% Mud
  • Tom Blakenship
$21.6M 2013
83% Shepard & Dark
  • Actor
$2.9k 2013
8% Savannah
  • Mr. Stubbs
$36.7k 2013
64% August: Osage County
  • Beverly Weston
-- 2013
23% Darling Companion
  • Sheriff Morris
$0.8M 2012
53% Safe House
  • Harlan Whitford
$126.1M 2012
75% Killing Them Softly
  • Dillon
$15.0M 2012
75% Blackthorn
  • Butch Cassidy
$0.2M 2011
39% Inhale
  • James Harrison
$3.0k 2010
79% Fair Game
  • Sam Plame
$9.5M 2010
62% Brothers
  • Hank Cahill
$28.5M 2009
65% Patti Smith: Dream of Life
  • Actor
-- 2008
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
  • Actor
-- 2008
6% The Accidental Husband
  • Wilder
-- 2008
61% Felon
  • Actor
-- 2008
Holy Modal Rounders...Bound to Lose
  • Actor
-- 2007
76% The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Frank James
$3.8M 2007
78% Charlotte's Web
  • Narrator
$82.5M 2006
16% The Return
  • Ed Mills
$7.7M 2006
42% Don't Come Knocking
  • Howard Spence
  • Screenwriter
$0.3M 2006
Ruffian
  • Franky Whiteley
-- 2006
Walker Payne
  • Actor
-- 2006
Walker Payne
  • Actor
-- 2006
62% Bandidas
  • Bill Buck
-- 2006
13% Stealth
  • Captain George Cummings
$31.7M 2005
100% The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
  • Actor
-- 2005
33% Trudell
  • Actor
-- 2004
Blind Horizon
  • Sheriff Kolb
-- 2004
52% The Notebook
  • Frank Calhoun
$81.0M 2004
90% This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
  • Actor
-- 2003
43% Leo
  • Vic
-- 2002
After the Harvest
  • Caleb Gare
-- 2001
Kurosawa
  • Narrator
-- 2001
78% The Pledge
  • Eric Pollack
$18.9M 2001
26% Swordfish
  • Senator Reisman
$68.8M 2001
76% Black Hawk Down
  • Maj. Gen. William F. Garrison
$108.6M 2001
80% Shot in the Heart
  • Actor
-- 2001
55% Hamlet
  • The Ghost
-- 2000
One Kill
  • Actor
-- 2000
32% All the Pretty Horses
  • J.C. Franklin
$14.7M 2000
Purgatory
  • Sheriff Forrest
-- 1999
25% Simpatico
  • Actor
-- 1999
Dash and Lilly
  • Dashiell Hammett
-- 1999
40% Snow Falling on Cedars
  • Arthur Chambers
-- 1999
Curtain Call
  • Will Dodge
-- 1998
The Only Thrill
  • Reece McHenry
-- 1997
Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself
  • Actor
-- 1997
Lily Dale
  • Actor
-- 1996
Good Old Boys
  • Actor
-- 1995
Streets Of Laredo
  • Pea Eye Parker
-- 1995
Silent Tongue
  • Director
-- 1994
54% Safe Passage
  • Patrick Singer
-- 1994
52% The Pelican Brief
  • Thomas Callahan
-- 1993
87% Thunderheart
  • Frank Coutelle
-- 1992
Defenseless
  • George Beutel
-- 1991
80% Bright Angel
  • Jack Russell
-- 1991
63% Homo Faber (Voyager)
  • Walter Faber
-- 1991
65% Steel Magnolias
  • Spud Jones
-- 1989
17% Far North
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
-- 1988
81% Baby Boom
  • Dr. Jeff Copper Veterinarian
-- 1987
81% Crimes of the Heart
  • Doc Porter
-- 1986
True West
  • Screenwriter
-- 1986
75% Fool for Love
  • Screenwriter
  • Eddie
-- 1985
100% Country
  • Gil Ivy
-- 1984
100% Paris, Texas
  • Screenwriter
  • Actor
-- 1983
97% The Right Stuff
  • Chuck Yeager
-- 1983
93% Frances
  • Harry York
-- 1982
83% Raggedy Man
  • Bailey
-- 1981
100% Resurrection
  • Cal Carpenter
-- 1980
40% Renaldo and Clara
  • Actor
  • Screenwriter
-- 1978
93% Days of Heaven
  • The Farmer
-- 1978
Bronco Bullfrog
  • Jo
-- 1972
Me and My Brother
  • Screenwriter
-- 1968

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Quotes from Sam Shepard's Characters

    1. Butch Cassidy: Friendship is the most valuable thing a man can have.Is worth more than money, land, horses or cattle... Might be the only thing that he never forget... It last's forever!
    From Blackthorn. Submitted by Alex M (17 months ago)
    1. Harlan Whitford: We'll take it from here.
    From Safe House. Submitted by Josh R (19 months ago)
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