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Sam Shepard
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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.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Right Stuff
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Frances
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Black Hawk Down
As Garrison
The Notebook
As Frank Calhoun
Brothers
As Hank Cahill
Paris, Texas
Writer
Stealth
As George Cummings
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword
Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...
7 films
Double Trouble
From the Academy's rare double nods to the performances that earned them, this chain celebrates actors who competed against themselves in a single awards season...
8 films
The Rivalry Within: How Feuds Shape the Soul
From duelling magicians to warring chefs, explore how rivalry reveals our deepest fears and desires. A cinematic journey through competition, obsession, and the...
8 films
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Acted
Midnight Special
2016 · Calvin Meyer
Cold in July
2014 · Russell
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013 · Self
Brothers
2009 · Hank Cahill
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Frank James
Bandidas
2006 · Bill Buck
Stealth
2005 · George Cummings
The Notebook
2004 · Frank Calhoun
Black Hawk Down
2001 · Garrison
The Pledge
2001 · Eric Pollack
Baby Boom
1987 · Dr. Jeff Cooper
The Right Stuff
1983 · Chuck Yeager
Frances
1982 · Harry York