Sam Shepard
Birthday: 1943-11-05 | Place of Birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USASamuel 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Frank Calhoun
as Paul Stark
as Self
as Calvin Meyer
as Mr. Anderson
as Willie Grogan
as Father Judge
as Russell
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
as Mr. Stubbs
as Tom
as Dillon
as Harlan Whitford
as Self
as Sheriff Morris
as James Blackthorn
as James Harrison
as Sam Plame
as Hank Cahill
as Wilder
as Gordon
as Self
as Frank James
as Frank Whiteley
as Bill Buck
