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

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Great Performances

    Great Performances

  • The Notebook

    The Notebook

  • Bloodline

    Bloodline

  • Black Hawk Down

    Black Hawk Down

  • California Typewriter

    California Typewriter

  • Brothers

    Brothers

  • Safe House

    Safe House

  • Mud

    Mud

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

    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

  • The Pledge

    The Pledge

  • Bandidas

    Bandidas

  • Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

  • Safe Passage

    Safe Passage

  • Kurosawa

    Kurosawa

  • Fair Game

    Fair Game

  • Swordfish

    Swordfish

  • Stealth

    Stealth

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  • Charlotte's Web

    Charlotte's Web

  • The Return

    The Return

  • Darling Companion

    Darling Companion

  • Steel Magnolias

    Steel Magnolias

  • Voyager

    Voyager

  • Raggedy Man

    Raggedy Man

  • Cold in July

    Cold in July

  • Inhale

    Inhale

  • Killing Them Softly

    Killing Them Softly

  • The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief

  • Walker Payne

    Walker Payne

  • Savannah

    Savannah

  • Trudell

    Trudell

  • Hamlet

    Hamlet

  • Leo

    Leo

  • Lily Dale

    Lily Dale

  • Country

    Country

  • Never Here

    Never Here

  • Frances

    Frances

  • Out of the Furnace

    Out of the Furnace

  • Curtain Call

    Curtain Call

  • Bright Angel

    Bright Angel

  • Snow Falling on Cedars

    Snow Falling on Cedars

  • Felon

    Felon

  • Thunderheart

    Thunderheart

  • Purgatory

    Purgatory

  • Baby Boom

    Baby Boom

  • Shepard & Dark

    Shepard & Dark

  • Resurrection

    Resurrection

  • In Dubious Battle

    In Dubious Battle

  • Klondike

    Klondike

  • Streets of Laredo

    Streets of Laredo

  • All the Pretty Horses

    All the Pretty Horses

  • One Kill

    One Kill

  • Brand X

    Brand X

  • Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven

  • Ruffian

    Ruffian

  • The Right Stuff

    The Right Stuff

  • August: Osage County

    August: Osage County

  • Dear Antonioni

    Dear Antonioni

  • Patti Smith: Dream of Life

    Patti Smith: Dream of Life

  • Midnight Special

    Midnight Special

  • The Only Thrill

    The Only Thrill

  • The Accidental Husband

    The Accidental Husband

  • Renaldo and Clara

    Renaldo and Clara

  • Don't Come Knocking

    Don't Come Knocking

  • Blind Horizon

    Blind Horizon

  • The Good Old Boys

    The Good Old Boys

  • Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

  • Crimes of the Heart

    Crimes of the Heart

  • After the Harvest

    After the Harvest

  • Shot in the Heart

    Shot in the Heart

  • Made in the USA

    Made in the USA

  • Blackthorn

    Blackthorn

  • Ithaca

    Ithaca

  • Dash and Lilly

    Dash and Lilly

  • Defenseless

    Defenseless

  • Fool for Love

    Fool for Love

  • Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

    Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

  • MaMa's Pushcart

    MaMa's Pushcart

  • This So-Called Disaster

    This So-Called Disaster

  • The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

    The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose