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Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, writer and actor.

He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers IV 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 Barna) from 1969 to 1984, by whom he has one child.

He met Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange on the set of a movie they both starred in, Frances
. He moved in with her in 1983, and currently lives with her and their two children outside of Stillwater, Minnesota.

Although considered to be somewhat reclusive, Shepard actually has a pretty healthy social life and his involvement in acting and writing ensure that this is not likely to change.

Shepard as Playwright

1964 Cowboys
1967 La Turista
1969 Oh! Calcutta! (contributed sketches)
1971 Mad Dog Blues
1971 Cowboy Mouth (co-written with Patti Smith)
1972 The Tooth of Crime
1978 Curse of the Starving Class
1978 Tongues
1979 Buried Child
1980 True West
1983 Fool for Love
1985 A Lie of the Mind
1993 Simpatico
2000 The Late Henry Moss
2004 The God of Hell

Shepard in Film

Shepard as an Actor

1970 Brand X
1978 Renaldo and Clara
- Rodeo

1978 Days of Heaven
- The Farmer

1980 Resurrection - Cal Carpenter

1982 Frances
- Harry York

1983 The Right Stuff
- Chuck Yeager

1984 Paris, Texas

1986 Crimes of the Heart
- Doc Porter

1987 Baby Boom - Dr. Jeff Cooper

1989 Steel Magnolias
- Spud Jones

1991 The Voyager
(HomoFaber) - Walter Faber

1993 The Pelican Brief
- Professor Thomas Callahan

2000 Hamlet - The Ghost

2001 Black Hawk Down
- Maj. Gen. William F. Garrison

2001 Kurosawa - Narrator

2001 Swordfish (film)
- Senator James Reisman

2001 The Pledge
- Eric Pollack

2004 The Notebook
- Frank Calhoun

2005 Don't Come Knocking
- Howard

2005 Bandidas
(post-production)

2005 Stealth
- Capt. George Cummings

2006 The Return

2006 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(post-production)

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