Born on this day – Sam Shepard:

Sam Shepard

Actor

Writer

Director

November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017

Credits:

AFI Life Achievement Award (1986); After the Harvest (2001); All the Pretty Horses (2000); American Playhouse (1984); August: Osage County (2013); Baby Boom (1987); Bandidas (2006); Black Hawk Down (2001); Blackthorn (2011); Blind Horizon (2003); Bloodline (2015); Brand X (1970); Bright Angel (1990); Brothers (2009); Buried Child (2016); Charlotte's Web (2006); Cold in July (2014); Country (1984); Crimes of the Heart (1986); Darling Companion (2012); Dash and Lilly (1999); Days of Heaven (1978); Defenseless (1991); Don't Come Knocking (2005); Fair Game (2010); Felon (2008); Fool for Love (1985); Frances (1982); Hamlet (2000); In Dubious Battle (2016); Inhale (2010); It All Came True (1998); Ithaca (2015); Killing Them Softly (2012); Klondike (2014); Leo (2002); Lily Dale (1996); Midnight Special (2016); Mud (2012); Never Here (2017); One Kill (2000); Out of the Furnace (2013); Paris, Texas (1984); Purgatory (1999); Raggedy Man (1981); Resurrection (1980); Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019); Ruffian (2007); Safe House (2012); Safe Passage (1994); Savannah (2013); Shot in the Heart (2001); Simpatico (1999); Snow Falling on Cedars (1999); Stealth (2005); Steel Magnolias (1989); Streets of Laredo (1995); Swordfish (2001); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); The Accidental Husband (2008); The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007); The Good Old Boys (1995); The Notebook (2004); The Only Thrill (1997); The Pelican Brief (1993); The Pledge (2001); The Return (2005); The Right Stuff (1983); Thunderheart (1992); Tough Trade (2010); True West (2002); Voyager (1991); Walker Payne (2006); Wanderlust (2006); Welcome to the Basement (2012); Zabriskie Point (1970).

On this day in movie history - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007 movie & novel):

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

directed and written by Andrew Dominik,

based on the novel by Ron Hansen,

was released in the United States on September 2, 2007.
Narrated by Hugh Ross.
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Cast:

Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Jeremy Renner, Sam Rockwell, Paul Schneider, Mary-Louise Parker, Zooey Deschanel, Garret Dillahunt, Ted Levine, James Carville, Alison Elliott, Michael Parks, Tom Aldredge, Pat Healy, Michael Copeman, Ron Hansen, Hugh Ross.

Recommended reading:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

By Ron Hansen.

Published by Harper Perennial.

First published 1983.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0061120197

ISBN-13: 978-0061120190

Description:

From critically acclaimed author Ron Hansen comes a breathtaking recreation of the American West – a riveting retelling of the life of its most famous outlaw, Jesse James, and his ignoble death at the hands of the “dirty little coward” who coveted James’s legend. It is a stunning portrait of two men – James, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life badman whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes; and Robert Ford, a young upstart nobody torn between dedicated worship and murderous jealousy. Powerful, strange, and unforgettable, it is a story of America in all her rough, conflicted glory and the myths that made her.

On this day in movie history - Cold in July (2014):

Cold in July

directed by Jim Mickle,

written by Nick Damici and Jim Mickle,

based on the novel by Joe R. Lansdale,

was released at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States on January 18, 2014.
Music by Jeff Grace.

Cast:

Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw, Ken Holmes, Nick Damici, Brogan Hall, Rachel Zeiger-Haag, Lanny Flaherty, Kristin Griffith, Happy Anderson, Kris Eivers, Joseph Harrell, Joe Lanza, Soraya Butler, Wyatt Russell, Tim Lajcik, Brianda Agramonte, Gregory Russell Cook, Bill Sage, Bitsy (the dog), Anastasia Veronica Lee, Norman Aaronson, Lorenzo Beronilla, Joseph K. Bevilacqua, Ralph Cashen, Julie E. Davis, Heidi K. Eklund, Rosemary Howard, Zoe Hunter, Joseph Anthony Jerez, Emery Kalinov, Vivian Kalinov, Samantha Kelly, Linda Kutrubes, Maximilian Amadeus Meisner, Sophie Elise Meissner, Steven Patrick O'Connor, Lily Autumn Page, Kat Pasion, Heidi Philipsen, Wayne Pyle, Willoughby Pyle, Laurent Rejto, Casey Roberts, Dannielle Rose, Bettina Skye, Dorothea Swiac, Robert Burke Warren.