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Sam Shepard

Birth name: Samuel Shepard Rogers

Birth date: 05.11.1943

Sam Shepard is an American playwright, writer and actor. He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. His many works are known for being frank and often absurd, and for having an authentic sense of the style and sensibility of the gritty modern American west. Shepard is also a respected actor of stage and motion pictures. His play Buried Child received a Pulitzer Prize in 1979; other notable work includes Curse of the Starving Class in 1978, True West in 1980 and A Lie of the Mind in 1985. He also continued with his collaboration with Bob Dylan that started with the surrealist film Renaldo & Clara on an epic, 11 minute song entitled "Brownsville Girl", included on the 1986 Knocked Out Loaded album and later compilations. In 1986, Shepard was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Shepard was previously married to actress O-Lan Jones (born O-Lan Johnson, alias O-Lan Johnson Dark, alias O-Lan Barna) from 1969 to 1984, by whom he has one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard After the end of his relationship with the singer and musician Patti Smith, Shepard met Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange on the set of a movie they both starred in, Frances. He moved in with her in 1983. They have two children, Hannah Jane (born 1985) and Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987), in Manhattan.

Filmography

# Descending from Heaven (2007) # The Accidental Husband (2007) .... Wilder # Ruffian (2007) (TV) .... Frank Whitley # The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) .... Frank James ... aka The Assassination of Jesse James (USA: short title) # Charlotte's Web (2006) (voice) .... Narrator # The Return (2006/I) .... Ed Mills # Bandidas (2006) .... Bill Buck # Walker Payne (2006) # Stealth (2005) .... Capt. George Cummings # Don't Come Knocking (2005) .... Howard Spence # The Notebook (2004) .... Frank Calhoun # Blind Horizon (2003) .... Sheriff Jack Kolb # Leo (2002) .... Vic # Black Hawk Down (2001) .... Garrison # Shot in the Heart (2001) (TV) .... Frank Gilmore, Sr. # Swordfish (2001) .... Senator James Reisman # After the Harvest (2001) (TV) .... Caleb Gare # The Pledge (2001) .... Eric Pollack # All the Pretty Horses (2000) .... J.C. Franklin # One Kill (2000) (TV) .... Maj. Nelson Gray # Hamlet (2000) .... Ghost # Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) .... Arthur Chambers # Curtain Call (1999) .... Will Dodge # Dash and Lilly (1999) (TV) .... Dashiell Hammett # Purgatory (1999) (TV) .... Sheriff Forrest/Wild Bill Hickock # The Only Thrill (1997) .... Reece McHenry # Lily Dale (1996) (TV) .... Pete Davenport ... aka Hallmark Hall of Fame: Lily Dale (USA: series title) # "Streets of Laredo" (1995) (mini) TV Series .... Cpl. Pea Eye Parker ... aka Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo # The Good Old Boys (1995) (TV) .... Tarnell # Safe Passage (1994) .... Patrick Singer # The Pelican Brief (1993) .... Thomas Callahan # Thunderheart (1992) .... Frank Coutelle # Defenseless (1991) .... Det. Beutel # Bright Angel (1991) .... Jack # Homo Faber (1991) .... Walter Faber ... aka The Voyager (France) ... aka Voyager (USA) # Steel Magnolias (1989) .... Spud Jones # Baby Boom (1987) .... Dr. Jeff Cooper # Crimes of the Heart (1986) .... Doc Porter # Fool for Love (1985) .... Eddie # Country (1984) .... Gil Ivy # Paris, Texas (1984) (unconfirmed) ... aka Paris, Texas (West Germany) # The Right Stuff (1983) .... Chuck Yeager # Frances (1982) .... Harry York # Raggedy Man (1981) .... Bailey # Resurrection (1980) .... Cal Carpenter # Days of Heaven (1978) .... The Farmer # Renaldo and Clara (1978) .... Rodeo # Brand X (1970)