Sam Shepard
Born November 05, 1943 (Age: 82)
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Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
In Dubious Battle
2016
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as Mr. Anderson
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Age: 72
Midnight Special
2016
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as Calvin Meyer
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Age: 72
Cold in July
2014
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as Russell
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Age: 70
August: Osage County
2013
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as Beverly Weston
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Age: 70
Out of the Furnace
2013
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as Gerald 'Red' Baze
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Age: 70
Mud
2013
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as Tom
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Age: 69
Killing Them Softly
2012
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as Dillon
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Age: 68
Darling Companion
2012
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as Sheriff Morris
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Age: 68
Safe House
2012
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as Harlan Whitford
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Age: 68
Blackthorn
2011
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as James Blackthorn
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Age: 67
Inhale
2010
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as James Harrison
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Age: 66
Fair Game
2010
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as Sam Plame
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Age: 66
Brothers
2009
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as Hank Cahill
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Age: 66
The Accidental Husband
2008
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as Wilder
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Age: 64
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
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as Frank James
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Age: 63
Charlotte's Web
2006
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 63
The Return
2006
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as Ed Mills
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Age: 63
Bandidas
2006
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as Bill Buck
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Age: 62
Don't Come Knocking
2005
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as Howard
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Age: 61
Stealth
2005
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as George Cummings
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Age: 61
The Notebook
2004
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as Frank Calhoun
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Age: 60
Black Hawk Down
2001
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as MG William F. Garrison
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Age: 58
Swordfish
2001
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as Senator Reisman
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Age: 57
The Pledge
2001
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as Eric Pollack
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Age: 57
Kurosawa
2000
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 57
All the Pretty Horses
2000
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as J.C. Franklin
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Age: 57
One Kill
2000
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as Maj. Nelson Gray
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Age: 56
Hamlet
2000
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as Ghost
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Age: 56
Made in the USA
1993
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as Self
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Age: 49
The Pelican Brief
1993
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as Thomas Callahan
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Age: 49
Voyager
1991
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as Walter Faber
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Age: 47
Steel Magnolias
1989
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as Spud Jones
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Age: 46
Baby Boom
1987
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as Dr. Jeff Cooper
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Age: 43
Crimes of the Heart
1986
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as Doc Porter
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Age: 43
The Right Stuff
1983
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as Chuck Yeager
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Age: 39
Frances
1982
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as Harry York
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Age: 39
Raggedy Man
1981
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as Bailey
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Age: 37
Resurrection
1980
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as Cal
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Age: 36
Days of Heaven
1978
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as The Farmer
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Age: 34