Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1943-11-05
Deathday: 2017-07-27 (73 years old)

Biography

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child (which was nominated for five Tony Awards) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 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 him as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.


As an actor, his best known roles are as Calvin Meyer in Midnight Special, Robert Rayburn on Netflix's series Bloodline, Beverly Weston in August: Osage County, Harlan Whitford in Safe House, Hank Cahill in Brothers, Frank James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, George Cummings in Stealth, Frank Calhoun in The Notebook, Master General William F. Garrison in Black Hawk Down, J.C. Franklin in All the Pretty Horses, Thomas Callahan in The Pelican Brief, Frank Coutelle in Thunderheart, Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias, Dr. Jeff Cooper in Baby Boom, Doc Porter in Crimes of the Heart, and Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.


Over the years, he taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater. He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops, festivals, and universities. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.


From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress O-Lan Jones, with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (born 1970). From 1970 to 1971, he was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith. Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with him during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. In "Coyote", from her eighth studio album Hejira, she recounts his seduction of her at a period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with tour manager Christine O'Dell with the lines: "He's got a woman at home, another woman down the hall, but he seems to want me anyway."


He met actress Jessica Lange on the set of the 1982 film Frances, in which they both acted. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009. They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987).


In 2014 and 2015, he dated actress Mia Kirshner.


His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld. A collection of Shepard and Dark's correspondence, Two Prospectors, was also published that year.


He died on July 27, 2017, at his home in Midway, KY, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Filmography

all 100

Movies 92

Writer 15

self 12

TV Shows 8

Director 2

Voice 1

Narrator 1

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Tesla

Tesla (2020)

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2
Willie Grogan
Ithaca

Ithaca (2015)

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Father Judge
Klondike

Klondike (2014)

TV
6
James Harrison
Inhale

Inhale (2010)

Movie
Frank Whiteley
Ruffian

Ruffian (2007)

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Capt. George Cummings
Stealth

Stealth (2005)

Movie
5.89
Maj. Nelson Gray
One Kill

One Kill (2000)

Movie
Sheriff Forrest
Purgatory

Purgatory (1999)

Movie
Pete Davenport
Lily Dale

Lily Dale (1996)

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Dr. Jeff Cooper
Baby Boom

Baby Boom (1987)

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Self - Nominee
Tony Awards

Tony Awards (1956)

TV
1
Sheriff Forrest
Purgatory

Purgatory

TV
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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1943-11-05

Deathday
2017-07-27 (73 years old)

Birth Name
Samuel Shepard Rogers III

Birth Place
Fort Sheridan, United States

Relationships
O-Lan Jones (1969 - 1984), Jessica Lange (1982 - 2009)

Mother
Jane Elaine Schook

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Samuel Shepard Rogers, Сем Шепард

Awards
star 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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