Sam Shepard

Acting · Born 1943-11-05 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

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,…

Filmography

• Black Hawk Down as MG William F. Garrison
• Voyager as Walter Faber
• Stealth as George Cummings
• The Return as Ed Mills
• Frances as Harry York
• Don't Come Knocking as Howard
• Bandidas as Bill Buck
• Hamlet as Ghost
• Steel Magnolias as Spud Jones
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Frank James