Sam Shepard

Shepard, Sam Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Fool for Love

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Cold in July

  2014, role: actor , character name: Russel
• Play in Full Screen August: Osage County

  2013, role: actor , character name: Beverly Weston
• Play in Full Screen A Personal Tale: Writing and Directing MUD

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Savannah

  2013, role: actor , character name: Mr. Stubbs
• Play in Full Screen Out of the Furnace

  2013, role: actor , character name: Gerald 'Red' Baze
• Play in Full Screen Mud: Southern Authenticity: Shooting the Real Arkansas

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Arkansas Ensemble the Distinctive Characters and Cast of Mud

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mud

  2012, role: actor , character name: Tom
• Play in Full Screen Darling Companion

  2012, role: actor , character name: Sheriff Morris
• Play in Full Screen The Presence of Joseph Chaikin

  2012, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Killing Them Softly

  2012, role: actor , character name: Dillon
• Play in Full Screen Shepard & Dark

  2012, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Safe House

  2012, role: actor , character name: Harlan Whitford
• Play in Full Screen Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blackthorn

  2011, role: actor , character name: James
• Play in Full Screen Tough Trade

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Fair Game

  2010, role: actor , character name: Sam Plame
• Play in Full Screen Re-Made in the USA: How Brodre Became Brothers

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jim Sheridan: Film and Family

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Inhale

  2010, role: actor , character name: James Harrison
• Play in Full Screen Border Crosses

  2010, role: actor , character name: Walter
• Play in Full Screen Play On, John: A Life in Music

  2009, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Brothers

  2009, role: actor , character name: Hank Cahill
• Play in Full Screen Descending from Heaven

  2009, role: actor , character name: Claude Eatherly
• Play in Full Screen Felon

  2008, role: actor , character name: Gordon
• Play in Full Screen Patti Smith: Dream of Life

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Accidental Husband

  2008, role: actor , character name: Wilder
• Play in Full Screen One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ruffian

  2007, role: actor , character name: Frank Whiteley
• Play in Full Screen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  2007, role: actor , character name: Frank James
• Play in Full Screen Charlotte's Web

  2006, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Bandidas

  2006, role: actor , character name: Bill Buck
• Play in Full Screen The Return

  2006, role: actor , character name: Ed Mills
• Play in Full Screen The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Walker Payne

  2006, role: actor , character name: Syrus
• Play in Full Screen Wanderlust

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Harnessing Speed

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Don't Come Knocking

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Don't Come Knocking

  2005, role: actor , character name: Howard Spence
• Play in Full Screen Don't Come Knocking

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Stealth

  2005, role: actor , character name: Capt. George Cummings
• Play in Full Screen Trudell

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Notebook

  2004, role: actor , character name: Frank Calhoun
• Play in Full Screen See You in My Dreams

  2004, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blind Horizon

  2003, role: actor , character name: Sheriff Jack Kolb
• Play in Full Screen The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rosy-Fingered Dawn: a Film on Terrence Malick

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Leo

  2002, role: actor , character name: Vic

Famous quotes by Sam Shepard:

"Honesty and courage. Also, neither of them can sing a lick. She'll be the first to admit she can't carry a melody line."

"Curse of the Starving Class."

"A Lie of the Mind"

"The Pelican Brief."

"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."

"In the original New York production, which I directed, I had the good fortune to encounter a bluegrass group called the Red Clay Ramblers, out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Their musical sensibilities, musicianship, and great repertoire of traditional and original tunes fit the play like a glove."

"I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write."

"We're being sold a brand-new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism doesn't appeal to me at all."

"My father had a real short fuse. He had a really tough life - had to support his mother and brothers at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. It was past frustration; it was anger."

"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself."

"Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play."

"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side."

"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by."

"Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism."