Sam Shepard

Known for ActingBorn 1943-11-05Died 2017-07-27Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

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.Read more

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The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

Savage/Love

Dash and Lilly

Ruffian

True West

After the Harvest

Paris, Texas

The Notebook

Alive from Off Center

Renaldo and Clara

Black Hawk Down

Brothers

The Assassination of President Kennedy

True West

Days of Heaven

Bloodline

Klondike

The Right Stuff

Mud

One Kill

Purgatory

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Felon

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Steel Magnolias

California Typewriter

August: Osage County

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Kurosawa

Out of the Furnace

Frances

Blackthorn

Zabriskie Point

The Good Old Boys

Cold in July

Safe House

The Pledge

Fair Game

The Pelican Brief

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Midnight Special

American Playhouse

Far North

Country

Thunderheart

Resurrection

Swordfish