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
MG William F. Garrison
Black Hawk Down
Walter Faber
Homo Faber
George Cummings
Stealth
Ed Mills
The Return
Howard
Don't Come Knocking
Harry York
Frances
Bill Buck
Bandidas
Ghost
Hamlet
Spud Jones
Steel Magnolias
Frank James
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Frank Calhoun
The Notebook
Dr. Jeff Cooper
Baby Boom
Eric Pollack
The Pledge
Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Vic
Leo
Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Purgatory
Sheriff Jack Kolb
Blind Horizon
Frank Coutelle
Thunderheart
Senator Reisman
Swordfish
Chuck Yeager
The Right Stuff
James Harrison
Inhale
Thomas Callahan
The Pelican Brief
Gordon
Felon
Narrator (voice)
Charlotte's Web
Wilder
The Accidental Husband
Gil Ivy
Country
Det. Beutel
Defenseless
The Farmer
Days of Heaven
Dillon
Killing Them Softly
Doc Porter
Crimes of the Heart
Will Dodge
Curtain Call
Patrick
Safe Passage
James Blackthorn
Blackthorn
Eddie
Fool for Love
J.C. Franklin
All the Pretty Horses
Narrator (voice)
Kurosawa
Harlan Whitford
Safe House
Bailey
Raggedy Man
Jack Russell
Bright Angel
Sheriff Morris
Darling Companion
Cal
Resurrection
Tom
Mud
Frank Gilmore, Sr.
Shot in the Heart
Caleb Gare
After the Harvest
Beverly Weston
August: Osage County
Self
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Frank Whiteley
Ruffian
Gerald 'Red' Baze
Out of the Furnace
Dashiell Hammett
Dash and Lilly
Mr. Stubbs
Savannah
Pete Davenport
Lily Dale
Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Russell
Cold in July
Reece McHenry
The Only Thrill
Hank Cahill
Brothers
Self
Shepard & Dark
Rodeo
Renaldo and Clara
Tarnell
The Good Old Boys
Paul Stark
Never Here
Willie Grogan
Ithaca
Calvin Meyer
Midnight Special
Maj. Nelson Gray
One Kill
Arthur Chambers
Snow Falling on Cedars
Self
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
Trudell
Self
Made in the USA
Mr. Anderson
In Dubious Battle
Syrus
Walker Payne
Brand X
Self
This So-Called Disaster
Self
California Typewriter
MaMa's Pushcart
Self
Caro Antonioni
The Writer
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Sam Plame
Fair Game
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
75
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-11-05
Place of Birth
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
Samuel Shepard Rogers