Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won ten Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most won by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 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."
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General Info
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Male
Full Name
Samuel Shepard Rogers III
Date of Birth
November 5th, 1943
Age
82
Birth Place
United States of America, Illinois, Lake Forest
Date of Death
July 27th, 2017
Died Aged
73
Star Sign
Scorpio
Height
185 cm | 6'1
Occupation
Filmmaker
Actor
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Roles
Frank James in
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Tom in
Mud
Hank Cahill in
Brothers
Chuck Yeager in
The Right Stuff
Thomas Callahan in
The Pelican Brief
The Farmer in
Days of Heaven
Russel in
Cold in July
Capt. George Cummings in
Stealth
Frank Coutelle in
Thunderheart
Dr. Jeff Cooper in
Baby Boom
James in
Blackthorn
Ed Mills in
The Return
Howard Spence in
Don't Come Knocking
Harry York in
Frances
James Harrison in
Inhale
Walter Faber in
Voyager
Cal in
Resurrection
Doc Porter in
Crimes of the Heart
Eddie, May's half-brother in
Fool for Love
Gil Ivy in
Country
Father Judge in
Klondike
Det. Beutel in
Defenseless
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