Sam Shepard

Also Known As: Samuel Shepard Rogers, Сем Шепард, سم شپارد, سام شپارد

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Shepard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Department: Writing

Place of Birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: November 05, 1943

Age: 81 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: July 27, 2017

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Known For:

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