
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.

as Self

as Paul Stark

as Mr. Anderson

as Calvin Meyer

as Willie Grogan

as Russell

as Beverly Weston

as Gerald 'Red' Baze

as Tom

as Mr. Stubbs

as Self

as Dillon

as Sheriff Morris

as Harlan Whitford

as James Blackthorn

as James Harrison

as Sam Plame

as Hank Cahill

as Gordon

as Self

as Wilder

as Frank Whiteley

as Narrator (voice)

as Ed Mills

as Syrus

as Bill Buck

as Howard

as George Cummings

as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)

as Frank Calhoun

as Sheriff Jack Kolb

as Self

as Vic

as Garrison

as Frank Gilmore, Sr.

as Senator Reisman

as Caleb Gare

as Eric Pollack

as Narrator (voice)

as J.C. Franklin

as Maj. Nelson Gray

as Ghost

as Arthur Chambers

as Dashiell Hammett

as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock

as Will Dodge

as Reece McHenry

as Pete Davenport

as Tarnell

as Self

as Patrick

as Self

as Thomas Callahan

as Frank Coutelle

as Det. Beutel

as Walter Faber

as Jack Russell

as Spud Jones

as Dr. Jeff Cooper

as Doc Porter

as Eddie

as Gil Ivy

as Chuck Yeager

as Harry York

as Bailey

as Cal

as The Farmer

as Rodeo