Sam Shepard
Acting
Born November 5, 1943 · 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 ma…
Known For · 40 titles
Great Performances
Tony Awards
The Notebook
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Black Hawk Down
Bloodline
Brothers
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Safe House
Swordfish
The Pelican Brief
Charlotte's Web
Steel Magnolias
Out of the Furnace
Mud
The Right Stuff
Baby Boom
Stealth
August: Osage County
Klondike
Killing Them Softly
Bandidas
The Accidental Husband
The Pledge
Thunderheart
Midnight Special
Felon
Fair Game
Days of Heaven
Cold in July
Streets of Laredo
All the Pretty Horses
In Dubious Battle
Don't Come Knocking
Snow Falling on Cedars
Darling Companion
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Lily Dale
Purgatory
The Only Thrill