Sam Shepard

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

81

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

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • The Notebook

    The Notebook

  • Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

  • Bloodline

    Bloodline

  • Black Hawk Down

    Black Hawk Down

  • Baby Boom

    Baby Boom

  • Killing Them Softly

    Killing Them Softly

  • Charlotte's Web

    Charlotte's Web

  • Brothers

    Brothers

  • Mud

    Mud

  • Raggedy Man

    Raggedy Man

  • Out of the Furnace

    Out of the Furnace

  • August: Osage County

    August: Osage County

  • Steel Magnolias

    Steel Magnolias

  • Snow Falling on Cedars

    Snow Falling on Cedars

  • Inhale

    Inhale

  • Swordfish

    Swordfish

  • Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  • Stealth

    Stealth

  • Safe House

    Safe House

  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

  • Shot in the Heart

    Shot in the Heart

  • California Typewriter

    California Typewriter

  • The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief

  • Patti Smith: Dream of Life

    Patti Smith: Dream of Life

  • The Pledge

    The Pledge

  • The Only Thrill

    The Only Thrill

  • Walker Payne

    Walker Payne

  • Midnight Special

    Midnight Special

  • The Return

    The Return

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

    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

  • Don't Come Knocking

    Don't Come Knocking

  • Bright Angel

    Bright Angel

  • Leo

    Leo

  • Cold in July

    Cold in July

  • Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

  • Fair Game

    Fair Game

  • Renaldo and Clara

    Renaldo and Clara

  • The Accidental Husband

    The Accidental Husband

  • Frances

    Frances

  • Bandidas

    Bandidas

  • Resurrection

    Resurrection

  • The Right Stuff

    The Right Stuff

  • After the Harvest

    After the Harvest

  • Felon

    Felon

  • Ithaca

    Ithaca

  • Voyager

    Voyager

  • Thunderheart

    Thunderheart

  • Klondike

    Klondike

  • Shepard & Dark

    Shepard & Dark

  • Trudell

    Trudell

  • Savannah

    Savannah

  • Purgatory

    Purgatory

  • Darling Companion

    Darling Companion

  • In Dubious Battle

    In Dubious Battle

  • Crimes of the Heart

    Crimes of the Heart

  • Blackthorn

    Blackthorn

  • Streets of Laredo

    Streets of Laredo

  • All the Pretty Horses

    All the Pretty Horses

  • Country

    Country

  • Ruffian

    Ruffian

  • Safe Passage

    Safe Passage

  • The Good Old Boys

    The Good Old Boys

  • Lily Dale

    Lily Dale

  • Made in the USA

    Made in the USA

  • Fool for Love

    Fool for Love

  • One Kill

    One Kill

  • Brand X

    Brand X

  • Kurosawa

    Kurosawa

  • Blind Horizon

    Blind Horizon

  • Never Here

    Never Here

  • Dash and Lilly

    Dash and Lilly

  • Curtain Call

    Curtain Call

  • Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

    Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

  • This So-Called Disaster

    This So-Called Disaster

  • Defenseless

    Defenseless

  • The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

    The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

  • Dear Antonioni

    Dear Antonioni

  • MaMa's Pushcart

    MaMa's Pushcart