Sam Shepard

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

80

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-11-05

Day of death

2017-07-27 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

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

  • Great Performances

    Great Performances

  • The Notebook

    The Notebook

  • Brothers

    Brothers

  • Baby Boom

    Baby Boom

  • Bloodline

    Bloodline

  • Black Hawk Down

    Black Hawk Down

  • Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

  • Inhale

    Inhale

  • Darling Companion

    Darling Companion

  • Country

    Country

  • Thunderheart

    Thunderheart

  • Mud

    Mud

  • Never Here

    Never Here

  • Kurosawa

    Kurosawa

  • Leo

    Leo

  • Voyager

    Voyager

  • Felon

    Felon

  • Swordfish

    Swordfish

  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

  • The Only Thrill

    The Only Thrill

  • Made in the USA

    Made in the USA

  • Brand X

    Brand X

  • Steel Magnolias

    Steel Magnolias

  • In Dubious Battle

    In Dubious Battle

  • Trudell

    Trudell

  • Safe House

    Safe House

  • Purgatory

    Purgatory

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  • One Kill

    One Kill

  • Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven

  • Shepard & Dark

    Shepard & Dark

  • The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief

  • Charlotte's Web

    Charlotte's Web

  • The Right Stuff

    The Right Stuff

  • Fair Game

    Fair Game

  • Lily Dale

    Lily Dale

  • Klondike

    Klondike

  • Killing Them Softly

    Killing Them Softly

  • The Accidental Husband

    The Accidental Husband

  • Stealth

    Stealth

  • The Pledge

    The Pledge

  • Midnight Special

    Midnight Special

  • Bandidas

    Bandidas

  • Out of the Furnace

    Out of the Furnace

  • Streets of Laredo

    Streets of Laredo

  • Savannah

    Savannah

  • California Typewriter

    California Typewriter

  • Frances

    Frances

  • August: Osage County

    August: Osage County

  • Cold in July

    Cold in July

  • All the Pretty Horses

    All the Pretty Horses

  • Don't Come Knocking

    Don't Come Knocking

  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

  • Blind Horizon

    Blind Horizon

  • Dear Antonioni

    Dear Antonioni

  • The Return

    The Return

  • Resurrection

    Resurrection

  • Dash and Lilly

    Dash and Lilly

  • Blackthorn

    Blackthorn

  • Snow Falling on Cedars

    Snow Falling on Cedars

  • Safe Passage

    Safe Passage

  • Ithaca

    Ithaca

  • Raggedy Man

    Raggedy Man

  • Bright Angel

    Bright Angel

  • Walker Payne

    Walker Payne

  • Defenseless

    Defenseless

  • Shot in the Heart

    Shot in the Heart

  • The Good Old Boys

    The Good Old Boys

  • Curtain Call

    Curtain Call

  • Ruffian

    Ruffian

  • Crimes of the Heart

    Crimes of the Heart

  • Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

  • Fool for Love

    Fool for Love

  • Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

    Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

  • After the Harvest

    After the Harvest

  • This So-Called Disaster

    This So-Called Disaster

  • Renaldo and Clara

    Renaldo and Clara

  • Patti Smith: Dream of Life

    Patti Smith: Dream of Life

  • MaMa's Pushcart

    MaMa's Pushcart

  • The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

    The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose