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 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.

Acted

Midnight Special

2016 · Calvin Meyer

Cold in July

2014 · Russell

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013 · Self

Brothers

2009 · Hank Cahill

Bandidas

2006 · Bill Buck

Stealth

2005 · George Cummings

The Notebook

2004 · Frank Calhoun

Black Hawk Down

2001 · MG William F. Garrison

The Pledge

2001 · Eric Pollack

Baby Boom

1987 · Dr. Jeff Cooper

The Right Stuff

1983 · Chuck Yeager

Wrote

Paris, Texas

1984

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