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Posted by rico (A) on November 03, 2007 at 10:06:29

In Reply to: RE: As an actor? Nah. Shephard is considered a first-rate playwright posted by tinear on November 03, 2007 at 05:45:50

1. For his portrayal of test pilot Chuck Yeager in the film The Right Stuff, Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1983.

2. Various roles:

1965 Rusakai
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 - Walter Faber
1992 Thunderheart - Frank Coutelle
1993 The Pelican Brief - Professor Thomas Callahan
1999 Snow Falling on Cedars - Arthur Chambers
1999 Purgatory - Sheriff Forrest/Wild Bill Hickock
2000 Hamlet - The Ghost
2001 Black Hawk Down - Maj. Gen. William F. Garrison
2001 Kurosawa - Narrator
2001 Shot in the Heart - Frank Gilmore
2001 Swordfish - Senator James Reisman
2001 The Pledge - Eric Pollack
2004 The Notebook - Frank Calhoun
2005 Don't Come Knocking - Howard
2005 Bandidas
2005 Stealth - Capt. George Cummings
2006 Walker Payne
2006 The Return
2006 Charlotte's Web (Narrator)
2007 The Accidental Husband - Wilder
2007 Ruffian - Frank Whiteley
2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

3.From Wikpedia: "Sam Shepard is not only a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, bit an accomplished actor and a rock musician.