Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1943-11-05
Day of Death
2017-07-27
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.
Filmography (75)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
California Typewriter
2017
Never Here
2017
In Dubious Battle
2016
Midnight Special
2016
Ithaca
2015
Cold in July
2014
August: Osage County
2013
Out of the Furnace
2013
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Mud
2013
Savannah
2013
Shepard & Dark
2012
Killing Them Softly
2012
