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.
Filmography (36)
Tesla
Midnight Special
In Dubious Battle
Cold in July
Mud
August: Osage County
Out of the Furnace
Killing Them Softly
Safe House
Fair Game
Brothers
Felon
The Accidental Husband
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Charlotte's Web
The Return
Bandidas
Stealth
Don't Come Knocking
The Notebook
Blind Horizon
Black Hawk Down
Swordfish
The Pledge
All the Pretty Horses
Purgatory
The Pelican Brief
Thunderheart
Steel Magnolias
Baby Boom
Crimes of the Heart
Paris, Texas
The Right Stuff
Frances
Days of Heaven
