Sam Shepard

Highest Rated:
100% The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2005)
Lowest Rated:
6% The Accidental Husband (2008)
Birthday:
Nov 5, 1943
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

Range of Movie T-meters: 6% - 100%
Number of Movies: 73
Box Office Since 2001: $603.4M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Out of the Furnace
  • Actor
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2013 Savannah
  • Actor
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2013 98% Mud
  • Actor
$5.2M
2012 53% Safe House
  • Harlan Whitford
$126.1M
2012 Shepard & Dark
  • Actor
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2012 76% Killing Them Softly
  • Dillon
$15.0M
2012 22% Darling Companion
  • Sheriff Morris
$0.8M
2011 74% Blackthorn
  • Butch Cassidy
$0.2M
2010 79% Fair Game
  • Sam Plame
$9.5M
2010 39% Inhale
  • James Harrison
$3.0k
2009 62% Brothers
  • Hank Cahill
$28.5M
2008 61% Felon
  • Actor
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2008 65% Patti Smith: Dream of Life
  • Actor
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2008 One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
  • Actor
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2008 6% The Accidental Husband
  • Wilder
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2007 76% The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Frank James
$3.8M
2007 Holy Modal Rounders...Bound to Lose
  • Actor
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2006 Ruffian
  • Franky Whiteley
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2006 Walker Payne
  • Actor
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2006 Walker Payne
  • Actor
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2006 42% Don't Come Knocking
  • Screenwriter
  • Howard Spence
$0.3M
2006 62% Bandidas
  • Bill Buck
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2006 78% Charlotte's Web
  • Narrator
$82.5M
2006 16% The Return
  • Ed Mills
$7.7M
2005 100% The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
  • Actor
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2005 13% Stealth
  • Captain George Cummings
$31.7M
2004 52% The Notebook
  • Frank Calhoun
$81.0M
2004 33% Trudell
  • Actor
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2004 Blind Horizon
  • Sheriff Kolb
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2003 90% This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
  • Actor
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2002 43% Leo
  • Vic
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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
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2001 After the Harvest
  • Caleb Gare
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2001 Kurosawa
  • Narrator
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2000 32% All the Pretty Horses
  • J.C. Franklin
$14.7M
2000 55% Hamlet
  • The Ghost
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2000 One Kill
  • Actor
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1999 25% Simpatico
  • Actor
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1999 Dash and Lilly
  • Dashiell Hammett
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1999 40% Snow Falling on Cedars
  • Arthur Chambers
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1999 Purgatory
  • Sheriff Forrest
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1998 Curtain Call
  • Will Dodge
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1997 Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself
  • Actor
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1997 The Only Thrill
  • Reece McHenry
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1996 Lily Dale
  • Actor
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1995 Good Old Boys
  • Actor
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1995 Streets Of Laredo
  • Pea Eye Parker
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1994 54% Safe Passage
  • Patrick Singer
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1994 Silent Tongue
  • Director
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1993 52% The Pelican Brief
  • Thomas Callahan
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1992 87% Thunderheart
  • Frank Coutelle
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1991 Defenseless
  • George Beutel
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1991 80% Bright Angel
  • Jack Russell
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1991 63% Homo Faber (Voyager)
  • Walter Faber
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1989 65% Steel Magnolias
  • Spud Jones
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1988 17% Far North
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1987 81% Baby Boom
  • Dr. Jeff Copper Veterinarian
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1986 True West
  • Screenwriter
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1986 81% Crimes of the Heart
  • Doc Porter
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1985 75% Fool for Love
  • Eddie
  • Screenwriter
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1984 100% Country
  • Gil Ivy
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1983 100% Paris, Texas
  • Screenwriter
  • Actor
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1983 97% The Right Stuff
  • Chuck Yeager
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1982 93% Frances
  • Harry York
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1981 83% Raggedy Man
  • Bailey
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1980 100% Resurrection
  • Cal Carpenter
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1978 94% Days of Heaven
  • The Farmer
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1978 40% Renaldo and Clara
  • Screenwriter
  • Actor
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1970 Bronco Bullfrog
  • Jo
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1968 Me and My Brother
  • Screenwriter
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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 (12 months ago)
    1. Harlan Whitford: We'll take it from here.
    From Safe House. Submitted by Josh R (14 months ago)
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