Sam Shepard
Acting
Born: 1943-11-05 · Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Died: 2017-07-27
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
🎬 Movies (20)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
The Writer
California Typewriter
2017
Self
Never Here
2017
Paul Stark
In Dubious Battle
2016
Mr. Anderson
Midnight Special
2016
Calvin Meyer
Ithaca
2015
Willie Grogan
Cold in July
2014
Russell
August: Osage County
2013
Beverly Weston
Out of the Furnace
2013
Gerald 'Red' Baze
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
Self
Mud
2013
Tom
Savannah
2013
Mr. Stubbs
Shepard & Dark
2012
Self
Killing Them Softly
2012
Dillon
Darling Companion
2012
Sheriff Morris
Safe House
2012
Harlan Whitford
Blackthorn
2011
James Blackthorn
Inhale
2010
James Harrison
Fair Game
2010
Sam Plame
Brothers
2009
Hank Cahill
