About
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...
Known for
American PlayhouseSeries • 1982
The NotebookMovie • 2004
Black Hawk DownMovie • 2001
BloodlineSeries • 2015
The Pelican BriefMovie • 1993
Safe HouseMovie • 2012
BrothersMovie • 2009
Paris, TexasMovie • 1984
Charlotte's WebMovie • 2006
Killing Them SoftlyMovie • 2012
In Dubious BattleMovie • 2016
Midnight SpecialMovie • 2016
SwordfishMovie • 2001
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordMovie • 2007
August: Osage CountyMovie • 2013
Steel MagnoliasMovie • 1989
TeslaMovie • 2020
FelonMovie • 2008
Out of the FurnaceMovie • 2013
Days of HeavenMovie • 1978
StealthMovie • 2005
The Accidental HusbandMovie • 2008
KlondikeSeries • 2014
The Right StuffMovie • 1983