Sam Shepard
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 portra
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
Nov 05, 1943
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Died
Jul 27, 2017
Known For
Acting
Movies
75 acting
26 crew
Popularity
1.3
Known For
The Notebook
2004
as Frank Calhoun
Black Hawk Down
2001
as MG William F. Garrison
Mud
2013
as Tom
Brothers
2009
as Hank Cahill
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
as Frank James
Swordfish
2001
as Senator Reisman
Stealth
2005
as George Cummings
Steel Magnolias
1989
as Spud Jones
Safe House
2012
as Harlan Whitford
The Pelican Brief
1993
as Thomas Callahan
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