Sam Shepard
Known for: Acting
Born: November 5, 1943
Died: July 27, 2017
Place of birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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.
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Filmography
93 movies · 8 TV shows, newest first
5.7
Tesla
2020
7.0
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
6.9
California Typewriter
2017
4.9
Never Here
2017
NR
Buried Child
2016
5.8
In Dubious Battle
2016
6.3
Midnight Special
2016
NR
True West
2016
5.2
Ithaca
2015
7.1
Bloodline
2015
6.5
Cold in July
2014
7.1
Klondike
2014
6.9
August: Osage County
2013
7.2
The Assassination of President Kennedy
2013
6.6
Out of the Furnace
2013
6.9
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
7.1
Mud
2013
6.1
Savannah
2013
5.5
Shepard & Dark
2012
6.0
Killing Them Softly
2012
5.0
Darling Companion
2012
6.5
Safe House
2012
6.6
Blackthorn
2011
6.0
Inhale
2010
6.5
Fair Game
2010
7.3
Brothers
2009
7.1
Felon
2008
6.1
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
5.6
The Accidental Husband
2008
9.0
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007
7.1
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
8.0
Ruffian
2007
6.2
Charlotte's Web
2006
6.0
The Return
2006
4.8
Walker Payne
2006
6.0
Bandidas
2006
6.2
Don't Come Knocking
2005
5.5
Stealth
2005
5.7
Trudell
2005
7.9
The Notebook
2004
8.0
See You in My Dreams
2004
5.9
Blind Horizon
2003
5.3
This So-Called Disaster
2003
7.0
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
7.3
True West
2002
6.1
Leo
2002
7.4
Black Hawk Down
2001
6.0
Shot in the Heart
2001
6.3
Swordfish
2001
8.0
After the Harvest
2001
6.6
The Pledge
2001
7.0
Kurosawa
2000
5.7
All the Pretty Horses
2000
7.3
One Kill
2000
5.8
Hamlet
2000
6.1
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999
4.9
Simpatico
1999
8.7
Dash and Lilly
1999
7.2
Purgatory
1999
5.1
Curtain Call
1998
5.0
The Only Thrill
1997
3.7
Lily Dale
1996
6.3
Streets of Laredo
1995
6.7
The Good Old Boys
1995
NR
Dear Antonioni
1995
5.9
Safe Passage
1994
4.6
Curse of the Starving Class
1994
4.7
Silent Tongue
1994
2.0
Made in the USA
1993
6.6
The Pelican Brief
1993
6.3
Thunderheart
1992
4.9
Defenseless
1991
6.2
Voyager
1991
4.8
Bright Angel
1990
7.2
Steel Magnolias
1989
6.5
Far North
1988
NR
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
6.4
Baby Boom
1987
6.1
Crimes of the Heart
1986
5.7
Fool for Love
1985
8.0
Alive from Off Center
1985
6.5
Country
1984
8.1
Paris, Texas
1984
8.3
True West
1984
7.4
The Right Stuff
1983
6.9
Frances
19826.0
Tongues
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
5.7
Raggedy Man
1981
9.0
Savage/Love
1981
6.5
Resurrection
1980
7.5
Days of Heaven
1978
7.9
Renaldo and Clara
1978
3.4
Oh! Calcutta!
1972
6.1
Great Performances
1971
4.5
Brand X
1970
7.0
Zabriskie Point
1970
6.5
Me and My Brother
1969
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
NR
Tony Awards
1956NR
Ages of the Moon
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