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Sam Shepard

Highest Rated:: 100% Country (1984)
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…

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Highest Rated Movies

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
100%
Paris, Texas
100%
Country
100%
Crimes of the Heart
100%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 6% - 100%

Number of Movies: 67

Box Office Since 2001: $496.4M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2012	53%	Safe House	Harlan Whitford	$40.2M
2012		Darling Companion	Actor	--
2011	69%	Blackthorn	Butch Cassidy	$0.2M
2010	80%	Fair Game	Sam Plame	$9.5M
2010	39%	Inhale	James Harrison	$3.0k
2009	61%	Brothers	Hank Cahill	$28.5M
2008	61%	Felon	Actor	--
2008	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	--
2007	75%	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Frank James	$3.8M
2007		Holy Modal Rounders...Bound to Lose	Actor	--
2006		Walker Payne	Actor	--
2006		Walker Payne	Actor	--
2006	62%	Bandidas	Bill Buck	--
2006	15%	The Return	Ed Mills	$7.7M
2006	78%	Charlotte's Web	Narrator	$82.5M
2006		Ruffian	Franky Whiteley	--
2005	100%	The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose	Actor	--
2005	42%	Don't Come Knocking	Screenwriter Howard Spence	$0.3M
2005	13%	Stealth	Captain George Cummings	$31.7M
2004	52%	The Notebook	Frank Calhoun	$81.0M
2004	33%	Trudell	Actor	--
2004		Blind Horizon	Sheriff Kolb	--
2003	90%	This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss	Actor	--
2002	43%	Leo	Vic	--
2001	76%	Black Hawk Down	Maj. Gen. William F. Garrison	$108.6M
2001	80%	Shot in the Heart	Actor	--
2001		After the Harvest	Caleb Gare	--
2001		Kurosawa	Narrator	--
2001	78%	The Pledge	Eric Pollack	$18.9M
2001	26%	Swordfish	Senator Reisman	$68.8M
2000	32%	All the Pretty Horses	J.C. Franklin	$14.7M
2000		Curtain Call	Actor	--
2000	55%	Hamlet	The Ghost	--
2000		One Kill	Actor	--
1999	23%	Simpatico	Actor	--
1999		Dash and Lilly	Dashiell Hammett	--
1999	40%	Snow Falling on Cedars	Arthur Chambers	--
1999		Purgatory	Sheriff Forrest	--
1998		Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself	Actor	--
1998		Curtain Call	Will Dodge	--
1997		The Only Thrill	Reece McHenry	--
1996		Lily Dale	Actor	--
1995		Good Old Boys	Actor	--
1995		Streets Of Laredo	Pea Eye Parker	--
1994	54%	Safe Passage	Patrick Singer	--
1994		Silent Tongue	Director	--
1993	52%	The Pelican Brief	Thomas Callahan	--
1992	87%	Thunderheart	Frank Coutelle	--
1991		Defenseless	George Beutel	--
1991	80%	Bright Angel	Jack Russell	--
1991	63%	Homo Faber (Voyager)	Walter Faber	--
1989	68%	Steel Magnolias	Spud Jones	--
1988	17%	Far North	Director	--
1987	81%	Baby Boom	Dr. Jeff Copper Veterinarian	--
1986	100%	Crimes of the Heart	Doc Porter	--
1985	75%	Fool for Love	Eddie Screenwriter	--
1984		True West	Screenwriter	--
1984	100%	Country	Gil Ivy	--
1983	100%	Paris, Texas	Screenwriter Actor	--
1983	97%	The Right Stuff	Chuck Yeager	--
1982	93%	Frances	Harry York	--
1981	83%	Raggedy Man	Bailey	--
1980	100%	Resurrection	Cal Carpenter	--
1978	93%	Days of Heaven	The Farmer	--
1978	40%	Renaldo and Clara	Screenwriter Actor	--

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Quotes from Sam Shepard's Characters

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1. Harlan Whitford: We will take it from here.
From Safe House. Submitted by Deni P (2 days ago)

1. Howard Spence: Mind if I turn the radio on?
2. Sutter: Yes, I do, as a matter of fact. I don't like outside influence.
3. Howard Spence: Outside?
4. Sutter: That's right. The world at large. It's a nasty place. Why allow it in? Livestalk reports, Navajo chanting, beheadings, bestiality. Nothing's changed. Black Death, the Inquisition, the Crusades, conquest of Mexico. What's changed?
5. Howard Spence: I was thinking...
6. Sutter: What?
7. Howard Spence: I don't know.
8. Sutter: Nothing's changed.
9. Howard Spence: Guess not.
From Don't Come Knocking. Submitted by Kunst J (4 months ago)