Biography Sam Shepard
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
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)
Shepard as a Screenwriter
1970 Zabriskie Point
1984 Paris, Texas
1985 Fool for Love
Shepard In Print
Seven Plays, Dial Press, 1984, 368 pages, ISBN 0553346113
Fool For Love and Other Plays, Bantam, 1984, 320 pages, ISBN 0553345907
The Unseen Hand: and Other Plays, Vintage, 1996, 400 pages, ISBN 0679767894
Crusing Paradise, Vintage, 1997, 255 pages, ISBN 0679742174
Great Dream Of Heaven Vintage, 2003, 160 pages, ISBN 0375704523
Rolling Thunder Logbook, Da Capo, 2004 reissue, 176 pages, ISBN 0306813718
Motel Chronicles, City Lights, 1983, ISBN 0872861430
Awards & Honors
In 1986, Shepard was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and, in 1992, he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy.
In 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. Of his 45 plays, 11 of them have won Obie Awards. He was nominated for two Tony Awards for Buried Child in 1996, and for True West in 2000.
