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, 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
all 99
Movies 92
Writer 14
self 13
TV Shows 7
Voice 2
Director 2
Screenplay 2

Tesla (2020)

Never Here (2017)

Buried Child (2016)

In Dubious Battle (2016)

Midnight Special (2016)

True West (2016)

Ithaca (2015)

Bloodline (2015)

Cold in July (2014)

Klondike (2014)

August: Osage County (2013)

The Assassination of President Kennedy (2013)

Out of the Furnace (2013)

Savannah (2013)

Darling Companion (2012)

Safe House (2012)

Blackthorn (2011)

Inhale (2010)

Fair Game (2010)

Brothers (2009)

Felon (2008)

Ruffian (2007)

Charlotte's Web (2006)

The Return (2006)

Bandidas (2006)

Don't Come Knocking (2005)

Stealth (2005)

Trudell (2005)

See You in My Dreams (2004)

The Notebook (2004)

Blind Horizon (2003)

True West (2002)

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Shot in the Heart (2001)

Swordfish (2001)

After the Harvest (2001)

The Pledge (2001)

Kurosawa (2000)

All the Pretty Horses (2000)

One Kill (2000)

Hamlet (2000)

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

Simpatico (1999)

Dash and Lilly (1999)

Purgatory (1999)

Curtain Call (1998)

The Only Thrill (1997)

Lily Dale (1996)

Streets of Laredo (1995)

Safe Passage (1994)

The Pelican Brief (1993)

Silent Tongue (1993)

Thunderheart (1992)

Defenseless (1991)

Voyager (1991)

Bright Angel (1990)

Steel Magnolias (1989)

Far North (1988)

Baby Boom (1987)

Crimes of the Heart (1986)

Fool for Love (1985)

Country (1984)

True West (1984)

The Right Stuff (1983)

Frances (1982)

Tongues (1982)

Raggedy Man (1981)

Savage/Love (1981)

Days of Heaven (1978)

Renaldo and Clara (1978)

Zabriskie Point (1970)

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968)

Tony Awards (1956)

Purgatory
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1943-11-05
Deathday2017-07-27 (73 years old)
Birth NameSamuel Shepard Rogers III
Birth PlaceFort Sheridan, United States
RelationshipsO-Lan Jones (1969 - 1984), Jessica Lange (1982 - 2009)
MotherJane Elaine Schook
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsSamuel Shepard Rogers, Сем Шепард, سم شپارد, سام شپارد
Awardsstar on Playwrights' Sidewalk, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York Drama Critics Award, PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, Obie Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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