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Sam Shepard

Aliases
  • Samuel Shepard Rogers
English
Filmography

California Typewriter

2017
as Himself

In Dubious Battle

2017
as Mr. Anderson

Never Here

2017
as Paul Stark

Midnight Special

2016
as Calvin Meyer

Ithaca

2015
as Willie Grogan

Bloodline

2015
as Robert Rayburn

Klondike (2014)

2014
as Father Judge

Cold in July

2014
as Russell

Mud

2013
as Tom Blankenship

Savannah

2013
as Mr. Stubbs

August: Osage County

2013
as Beverly Weston

Out of the Furnace

2013
as Gerald 'Red' Baze

Darling Companion

2012
as Sheriff Morris

Safe House

2012
as Harlan Whitford

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2012
as Himself

Shepard & Dark

2012

Killing Them Softly

2012
as Dillon

Blackthorn

2011
as James

Inhale

2010
as James Harrison

Brothers

2009
as Hank Cahill

Felon

2008
as Gordon

The Accidental Husband

2008
as Wilder Lloyd

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

2008
as Himself

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007
as Frank James

Ruffian

2007
as Frank Whiteley

The Return

2006
as Ed Mills

Bandidas

2006
as Bill Buck

Charlotte's Web

2006
as Narrator (voice)

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

2006
as Sam Shepard

Walker Payne

2006
as Syrus

Trudell

2005
as Himself

Stealth

2005
as Capt. George Cummings

Don't Come Knocking

2005
as Howard

The Notebook

2004
as Frank Calhoun

Blind Horizon

2003
as Sheriff Jack Kolb

This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"

2003
as Sam Shepard

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

2002
as Himself

Leo

2002
as Vic

After the Harvest

2001
as Caleb Gare

The Pledge

2001
as Eric Pollack

Shot in the Heart

2001
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.

Black Hawk Down

2001
as Maj. Gen. William F. Garrison

Swordfish

2001
as Senator James Reisman

One Kill

2000
as Maj. Nelson Gray

Kurosawa

2000
as Narrator (voice)

Hamlet

2000
as Ghost

All the Pretty Horses

2000
as J.C. Franklin

Purgatory

1999
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock

Snow Falling on Cedars

1999
as Arthur Chambers

Dash and Lilly

1999
as Dashiell Hammett

Curtain Call

1998
as Will Dodge

The Only Thrill

1997
as Reece McHenry

Lily Dale

1996
as Pete Davenport

The Good Old Boys

1995
as Tarnell

Streets of Laredo

1995
as Pea Eye Parker

Safe Passage

1994
as Patrick Singer

The Pelican Brief

1993
as Thomas Callahan

Thunderheart

1992
as Frank Coutelle

Voyager

1991
as Walter Faber

Defenseless

1991

Bright Angel

1990
as Jack

Steel Magnolias

1989
as Spud Jones

Baby Boom

1987
as Dr. Jeff Cooper

Crimes of the Heart

1986
as Doc Porter

Fool for Love

1985
as Eddie

Country

1984
as Gil Ivy

The Right Stuff

1984
as Chuck Yeager

Frances

1982
as Harry York

Raggedy Man

1981
as Bailey

Resurrection

1980
as Cal

Days of Heaven

1978
as The farmer

Renaldo and Clara

1978
as Rodeo

Brand X

1970

Director

Movie Silent Tongue 1993
Movie Far North 1988

Writer

Movie Buried Child 2016
Movie Don't Come Knocking 2005
Movie True West 2002
Movie Simpatico 1999
Movie Curse of the Starving Class 1994
Movie Silent Tongue 1993
Movie Fool for Love 1985
Movie Fool for Love 1985
Movie Paris, Texas 1984
Movie True West 1984
Movie Tongues 1982
Movie Savage/Love 1981
Movie Renaldo and Clara 1978
Movie Oh! Calcutta! 1972
Movie Zabriskie Point 1970
Movie Me and My Brother 1969