Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 05, 1943
Died
Jul 27, 2017
Place of Birth
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Credits
101 titles
Sam Shepard
Biography
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) 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. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.
Known For
Filmography
Tesla
In Memory Of
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
California Typewriter
Self
Never Here
Paul Stark
Buried Child
Writer
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
True West
Writer
Ithaca
Willie Grogan
Bloodline
Robert Rayburn
Cold in July
Russell
Klondike
Father Judge
August: Osage County
Beverly Weston
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Acting Double
Out of the Furnace
Gerald 'Red' Baze
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
Mud
Tom
Savannah
Mr. Stubbs
Shepard & Dark
Self
Killing Them Softly
Dillon
Darling Companion
Sheriff Morris
Safe House
Harlan Whitford
Blackthorn
James Blackthorn
Inhale
James Harrison
Fair Game
Sam Plame
Brothers
Hank Cahill
Felon
Gordon
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Self
The Accidental Husband
Wilder
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank James
Ruffian
Frank Whiteley
Charlotte's Web
Narrator (voice)
The Return
Ed Mills
Walker Payne
Syrus
Bandidas
Bill Buck
Don't Come Knocking
Howard
Stealth
George Cummings
Trudell
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
The Notebook
Frank Calhoun
See You in My Dreams
Short Story
Blind Horizon
Sheriff Jack Kolb
This So-Called Disaster
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
True West
Writer
Leo
Vic
Black Hawk Down
MG William F. Garrison
Shot in the Heart
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Swordfish
Senator Reisman
After the Harvest
Caleb Gare