Sam Shepard
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-11-05 (74 years old)
Deathday
2017-07-27
Place of Birth
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Also known As
Samuel Shepard Rogers
Сем Шепард
سم شپارد
سام شپارد
Sam Shepard
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...
Acting
2001
as MG William F. Garrison
1991
as Walter Faber
2005
as George Cummings
2006
as Ed Mills
2005
as Howard
1982
as Harry York
2006
as Bill Buck
2000
as Ghost
1989
as Spud Jones
2007
2004
as Frank Calhoun
1987
as Dr. Jeff Cooper
2001
as Eric Pollack
2008
as Self
2002
as Vic
1999
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
2003
as Sheriff Jack Kolb
1992
as Frank Coutelle
2001
as Senator Reisman
1983
as Chuck Yeager
2010
as James Harrison
1993
as Thomas Callahan
2008
as Gordon
2006
as Narrator (voice)
2008
as Wilder
1984
as Gil Ivy
1991
as Det. Beutel
1978
as The Farmer
2012
as Dillon
1986
as Doc Porter
1998
as Will Dodge
1994
as Patrick
2011
as James Blackthorn
1985
as Eddie
2000
as J.C. Franklin
2000
as Narrator (voice)
2012
as Harlan Whitford
1981
as Bailey
1990
as Jack Russell
2012
as Sheriff Morris
1980
as Cal
2013
as Tom
2001
as Frank Gilmore, Sr.
2001
as Caleb Gare
2013
as Beverly Weston
2013
2007
as Frank Whiteley
2013
as Gerald 'Red' Baze
1999
as Dashiell Hammett
2013
as Mr. Stubbs
1996
as Pete Davenport
2014
as Russell
1997
as Reece McHenry
2009
as Hank Cahill
2012
as Self
1978
as Rodeo
1995
as Tarnell
2017
as Paul Stark
2015
as Willie Grogan
2016
as Calvin Meyer
2000
as Maj. Nelson Gray
1999
as Arthur Chambers
2007
2005
as Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)
1993
as Self
2016
as Mr. Anderson
2006
as Syrus
1970
2003
as Self
2017
as Self
1988
1995
as Self
2019
2010
as Sam Plame
Production
1984
as Writer
1970
as Screenplay
1999
as Theatre Play
1988
as Director
1993
as Director
1993
as Writer
1978
as Writer
1972
as Writer
1994
as Writer
1988
as Writer
2004
as Short Story
1985
as Theatre Play
1985
as Screenplay
2004
as Writer
1984
as Writer
2002
as Writer
2005
as Writer
1969
as Writer
2016
as Writer
1982
as Music
1982
as Writer
1981
as Writer
2016
as Writer
2013
as Acting Double
2020
as In Memory Of
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as Theatre Play
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