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Birthdate: November 5, 1943

Sam Shepard

ACTOR RANKINGS:

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All-time

of 196,423

1,204
All-time Actor

of 38,412

728
Decades
- 1970s
  
  of 21,065
  
  18,387
- 1980s
  
  of 44,733
  
  246
- 1990s
  
  of 71,584
  
  3,853
- 2000s
  
  of 82,682
  
  1,006
Genres
- Action
  
  of 41,607
  
  482
- Biography
  
  of 11,944
  
  2,468
- Comedy
  
  of 84,814
  
  4,206
- Crime
  
  of 34,304
  
  983
- Documentary
  
  of 9,403
  
  1,263
- Drama
  
  of 107,138
  
  1,658
- Fantasy
  
  of 17,834
  
  13,557
- History
  
  of 5,928
  
  7
- Horror
  
  of 36,680
  
  25,571
- Mystery
  
  of 16,953
  
  2,586
- Romance
  
  of 37,234
  
  835
- Scifi
  
  of 24,983
  
  12,648
- Thriller
  
  of 49,528
  
  1,439
- War
  
  of 9,723
  
  2,307
- Western
  
  of 7,069
  
  648

CAREER SPAN

Decade

Movie Score

# Movies

1970s

0.1222

1980s

2.4733

1990s

2.0079

2000s

2.4561

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.

Overall Actor Score: Sam Shepard is ranked overall as 2.3861 of of 4 stars

2.3861

Sam Shepard Movie Rankings

Right Stuff, The (1983)

3.6338

The film chronicles over the course of 15 years and shares the difficulties the government face in trying to run a space program. NASA recruits seven test pilots and trains them to be astronauts. They participate in the Mercury Space Program in an attempt to beat the Russians into space. ...more about Right Stuff

Actor Awards

Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role

DVD from $4.98

(12 sellers)

Days of Heaven (1978)

3.0245

Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labour of the city and travel south. ...more about Days of Heaven

DVD from $6.94

(11 sellers)

Black Hawk Down (2001)

3.0165

Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. ...more about Black Hawk Down

DVD from $3.86

(16 sellers)

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007)

3.0033

In 1881 a younger member of the notorious James gang becomes so inextricably drawn to and frightened of his mentor that his own delusions of grandeur force him to consider doing the unthinkable. ...more about Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

DVD from $11.99

(14 sellers)

Pledge, The (2001)

2.8907

The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. ...more about Pledge

DVD from $5.56

(13 sellers)

Steel Magnolias (1989)

2.8489

Revolving around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. ...more about Steel Magnolias

DVD from $6.10

(13 sellers)

This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss (2003)

2.7853

After the American playwright and actor Sam Shepard had played the role of the ghost in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, Shepard invited the filmmaker to document rehearsals for his The Late Henry Moss, that he staged with Nick Nolte and Sean Penn in leading ...more about This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss

DVD from $7.99

(10 sellers)

Frances (1982)

2.7553

DVD from $6.97

(11 sellers)

Hamlet (2000)

2.7154

New York, 2000. A specter in the guise of the newly-dead CEO of Denmark Corporation appears to Hamlet, tells of murder most foul, demands revenge, and identifies the killer as Claudius, the new head of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and now step-father. ...more about Hamlet

DVD from $6.39

(12 sellers)

All the Pretty Horses (2000)

2.6978

John Grady Cole moves to Mexico looking for a better life. When he is hired to break a horse for a local landowner, he quickly falls in love with the powerful man's daughter. Their relationship soon results in murder and betrayal. ...more about All the Pretty Horses

DVD from $3.95

(12 sellers)

Baby Boom (1987)

2.6686

J.C. Wiatt is a successful New York business woman known around town as the "tiger lady." She gets news of an inheritance from a relative from another country and off the bat she suspects it's money. Well it's not money, it's a baby girl. ...more about Baby Boom

DVD from $9.72

(11 sellers)

Notebook, The (2004)

2.6567

The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. ...more about Notebook

DVD from $10.75

(17 sellers)

Don't Come Knocking (2005)

2.6562

Howard Spence ('Sam Shepard' (qv)) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. ...more about Don't Come Knocking

DVD from $3.99

(12 sellers)

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

2.6337

Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in own nets, but with a serious head wound. ...more about Snow Falling on Cedars

DVD from $4.52

(14 sellers)

Swordfish (2001)

2.5586

When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. ...more about Swordfish

DVD from $5.50

(14 sellers)

Blind Horizon (2003)

2.5280

In this thriller, Val Kilmer plays Frank, a man who loses his memory after being shot in small desert town in New Mexico. ...more about Blind Horizon

DVD from $5.99

(11 sellers)

Safe Passage (1994)

2.5216

A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal pain and a troubled marriage fade into the background as news comes that one of her sons might have died in an accident. ...more about Safe Passage

DVD from $14.85

(6 sellers)

Pelican Brief, The (1993)

2.3691

Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. ...more about Pelican Brief

DVD from $5.45

(12 sellers)

Felon (2008)

2.3591

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system. ...more about Felon

Not Available on DVD

Trudell (2006)

2.1227

In this documentary filmmaker Heather Rae the engaging life story of Native American poet-prophet-activist John Trudell and his heartfelt message of active, personal responsibility to the earth, all of its inhabitants and our descendents. ...more about Trudell

Not Available on DVD

Fool for Love (1985)

2.0927

May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. ...more about Fool for Love

DVD from $5.31

(10 sellers)

Stealth (2005)

2.0334

In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. ...more about Stealth

DVD from $3.99

(18 sellers)

Country (1984)

1.9651

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family. ...more about Country

DVD from $6.39

(9 sellers)

Curtain Call (1999)

1.9619

A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment. ...more about Curtain Call

DVD from $7.14

(6 sellers)

Crimes of the Heart (1986)

1.9000

Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. ...more about Crimes of the Heart

DVD from $3.29

(9 sellers)

Leo (2002)

1.8995

DVD from $4.24

(9 sellers)

Bright Angel (1991)

1.7366

Not Available on DVD

Bandidas (2006)

1.6963

Sara (Penelope Cruz) and Maria (Salma Hayek) are two women who reluctantly join forces to fight a ruthless enforcer...by becoming celebrated bank robbers. ...more about Bandidas

DVD from $9.27

(11 sellers)

Return, The (2006)

1.6773

THE RETURN stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a seemingly normal young woman who becomes ensnared in the world of the supernatural when she begins having nightmares about a 25-year-old murder. ...more about Return

DVD from $8.89

(12 sellers)

Thunderheart (1992)

1.5037

An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage. ...more about Thunderheart

DVD from $7.10

(10 sellers)

Raggedy Man (1981)

1.4169

Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave causes tongues to wag in town. ...more about Raggedy Man

DVD from $4.99

(10 sellers)

Defenseless (1991)

1.2146

Lawyer T.K. represents Steven Seldes who claims he is innocent of involvement in making under-age porn movies. ...more about Defenseless

DVD from $4.59

(6 sellers)

Only Thrill, The (1997)

1.1529

Reece McHenry is a used-clothing store owner and Carol Fitzsimmons is a seamstress working in that store. ...more about Only Thrill

Not Available on DVD

Resurrection (1980)

1.0105

Ellen Burstyn experiences the after-life for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmaties. ...more about Resurrection

Not Available on DVD

Walker Payne (2006)

0.5571

Not Available on DVD

Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose, The (2006)

No Reviews Available

Not Available on DVD

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: a Film on Terrence Malick (2002)

No Reviews Available

Not Available on DVD

Renaldo and Clara (1978)

Sam Shepard scores a combined zero out of 4 stars for Renaldo and Clara

0.0001

This epic is a mass amalgamation of three separate film-types that is, contrary to popular opinion, coherent and a unified whole. Bob Dylan is shown in concert, often masked, during the Rolling Thunder Revue. ...more about Renaldo and Clara

Not Available on DVD

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