Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Birthday: 1943-11-05

Deathday: 2017-07-27

Place of birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

Also known as: Samuel Shepard Rogers, Сем Шепард, سم شپارد, سام شپارد

imdb_id: nm0001731

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Shepard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Played in movies:

Ruffian

Score: 8.7

Renaldo and Clara

Score: 8.3

Dash and Lilly

Score: 8.0

The Notebook

Score: 7.9

Days of Heaven

Score: 7.5

The Right Stuff

Score: 7.4

Black Hawk Down

Score: 7.4

Brothers

Score: 7.3

Steel Magnolias

Score: 7.2

Purgatory

Score: 7.2

Felon

Score: 7.2

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Score: 7.1

Mud

Score: 7.1

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Score: 7.0

California Typewriter

Score: 6.9

Frances

Score: 6.9

August: Osage County

Score: 6.9

The Good Old Boys

Score: 6.7

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Score: 6.7

Kurosawa

Score: 6.7

Blackthorn

Score: 6.6

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Score: 6.6

The Pelican Brief

Score: 6.6

The Pledge

Score: 6.6

Out of the Furnace

Score: 6.6

Cold in July

Score: 6.6

Resurrection

Score: 6.5

Safe House

Score: 6.5

Fair Game

Score: 6.5

Country

Score: 6.4

Leo

Score: 6.4

Baby Boom

Score: 6.4

One Kill

Score: 6.3

Thunderheart

Score: 6.3

Swordfish

Score: 6.2

Midnight Special

Score: 6.2

Charlotte's Web

Score: 6.2

Savannah

Score: 6.2

Don't Come Knocking

Score: 6.2

Voyager

Score: 6.2

Crimes of the Heart

Score: 6.1

Safe Passage

Score: 6.0

Killing Them Softly

Score: 6.0

Bandidas

Score: 6.0

Snow Falling on Cedars

Score: 6.0

Inhale

Score: 6.0

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Score: 6.0

The Return

Score: 6.0

In Dubious Battle

Score: 5.9

Shepard & Dark

Score: 5.9

Shot in the Heart

Score: 5.9

Fool for Love

Score: 5.9

Hamlet

Score: 5.8

All the Pretty Horses

Score: 5.7

Blind Horizon

Score: 5.7

The Accidental Husband

Score: 5.5

Stealth

Score: 5.4

Trudell

Score: 5.4

Ithaca

Score: 5.3

Raggedy Man

Score: 5.3

Never Here

Score: 5.0

Curtain Call

Score: 5.0

Defenseless

Score: 5.0

Darling Companion

Score: 5.0

Bright Angel

Score: 4.8

The Only Thrill

Score: 4.7

Walker Payne

Score: 4.3

This So-Called Disaster

Score: 4.2

Brand X

Score: 4.0

Made in the USA

Score: 2.0

Lily Dale

Score: 2.0

Dear Antonioni

Score: 0.0

MaMa's Pushcart

Score: 0.0

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

Score: 0.0

After the Harvest

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Bloodline

Score: 7.1

Klondike

Score: 7.1

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Score: 6.5

Streets of Laredo

Score: 6.3

Great Performances

Score: 5.6

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6