FrameThrower · Actors · Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
12 films · 1,032 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1978–2016
Born 5 November 1943 · Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA · died 27 July 2017
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 12 films · 1,032 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1978–2016
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama1979
- Guggenheim Fellowship1971
- Guggenheim Fellowship1968
- PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award
- star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
- New York Drama Critics Award
- Obie Award
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,032 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sam takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Sam takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Pelican Brief
1993 · Thomas Callahan
Baby Boom
1987 · Dr. Jeff Cooper
The Right Stuff
1983 · Chuck Yeager
Days Of Heaven
1978 · The Farmer
Midnight Special
2016 · Calvin Meyer
Out of the Furnace
2013 · Gerald 'Red' Baze
Killing Them Softly
2012 · Dillon
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Frank James
The Notebook
2004 · Frank Calhoun
Black Hawk Down
2001 · MG William F. Garrison
The Pledge
2001 · Eric Pollack
Hamlet
2000 · Ghost
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,032 frames from Sam Shepard's 12 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.