Sam Shepard
Acting
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.
Born: November 5, 1943
Place of Birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self
as Paul Stark
as Mr. Anderson
as Calvin Meyer
as Willie Grogan
as Robert Rayburn
as Russell
as Father Judge
as Beverly Weston
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
as Tom
as Mr. Stubbs
as Self
as Dillon
as Sheriff Morris
as Harlan Whitford
as James Blackthorn
as James Harrison
as Sam Plame
as Hank Cahill
as Gordon
as Self
as Wilder
as Frank Whiteley
as Narrator (voice)
as Ed Mills
as Syrus
as Bill Buck
as Howard
as George Cummings
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
as Frank Calhoun
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
as Self
as Vic
as MG William F. Garrison
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
as Senator Reisman
as Caleb Gare
as Eric Pollack
as Narrator (voice)
as J.C. Franklin
as Maj. Nelson Gray
as Ghost
as Arthur Chambers
as Dashiell Hammett
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
as Will Dodge
as Reece McHenry
as Pete Davenport
as Pea Eye Parker
as Tarnell
as Self
as Patrick
as Self
as Thomas Callahan
as Frank Coutelle
as Det. Beutel
as Walter Faber
as Jack Russell
as Spud Jones
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
as Doc Porter
as Eddie
as Gil Ivy
as Chuck Yeager
as Harry York
as Bailey
as Cal
as The Farmer
as Rodeo
as Self
as Self (uncredited)
as Self - Nominee