Sam Shepard
Acting
Born 1943-11-05
Died 2017-07-27
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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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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Great Performances
Tony Awards
The Notebook
Black Hawk Down
American Playhouse
Bloodline
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Safe House
Paris, Texas
Swordfish
Brothers
Charlotte's Web
The Pelican Brief
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Steel Magnolias
Stealth
The Right Stuff
Fair Game
The Pledge
Killing Them Softly
August: Osage County
Mud
Felon
Tesla
Out of the Furnace
Baby Boom
Klondike
Cold in July
Bandidas
Thunderheart
The Accidental Husband
Alive from Off Center
Days of Heaven
Midnight Special
Streets of Laredo
Zabriskie Point
Lily Dale
All the Pretty Horses
In Dubious Battle
Snow Falling on Cedars
Darling Companion
Blind Horizon
Don't Come Knocking
Never Here
Blackthorn
Dash and Lilly
Purgatory
The Return
Kurosawa
Voyager
Hamlet
Frances
Trudell
Dear Antonioni
Raggedy Man
Oh! Calcutta!
California Typewriter
Curtain Call
Ithaca
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