Sam Shepard
Acting
- Born:
- 1943-11-05
- Died:
- 2017-07-27
- Place of birth:
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
California Typewriter
Never Here
In Dubious Battle
Midnight Special
Ithaca
Bloodline
Cold in July
Klondike
August: Osage County
Out of the Furnace
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Mud
Savannah
Shepard & Dark
Killing Them Softly
Darling Companion
Safe House
Blackthorn
Inhale
Fair Game
Brothers
Felon
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
The Accidental Husband
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ruffian
Charlotte's Web
The Return
Walker Payne
Bandidas
Don't Come Knocking
Stealth
Trudell
The Notebook
Blind Horizon
This So-Called Disaster
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down'
Leo
Black Hawk Down
Shot in the Heart
Swordfish
After the Harvest
The Pledge
Kurosawa
All the Pretty Horses
One Kill
Hamlet
Snow Falling on Cedars
Dash and Lilly
Purgatory
Curtain Call
The Only Thrill
Lily Dale
Streets of Laredo
The Good Old Boys
Dear Antonioni
Safe Passage
Made in the USA
The Pelican Brief
Thunderheart
Defenseless
Voyager
Bright Angel
Steel Magnolias
MaMa's Pushcart
Baby Boom
Crimes of the Heart
Fool for Love
Country
The Right Stuff
Frances
Raggedy Man
Resurrection
Days of Heaven
Renaldo and Clara
Great Performances
Brand X
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Tony Awards