Sam Shepard
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.0154 |
| Birthday | 1943-11-05 |
| Place of Birth | Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Samuel Shepard Rogers, Сем Шепард, سم شپارد, سام شپارد, |
2001
Black Hawk Down
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Voyager
6.2/56
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Stealth
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The Return
6.024/658
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Frances
6.893/126
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Don't Come Knocking
6.2/149
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Bandidas
6.051/1197
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Hamlet
5.824/145
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Steel Magnolias
7.18/764
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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The Notebook
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Baby Boom
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6.071/21
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Leo
6.052/29
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Purgatory
7.169/127
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Blind Horizon
5.867/124
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Swordfish
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Thunderheart
6.351/332
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The Right Stuff
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Inhale
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The Pelican Brief
6.595/1826
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Felon
7.137/1018
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Charlotte's Web
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The Accidental Husband
5.583/613
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Country
6.515/34
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Defenseless
4.931/29
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Days of Heaven
7.48/1203
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Killing Them Softly
6.025/2481
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Crimes of the Heart
6.1/73
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Curtain Call
5.148/27
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Safe Passage
5.935/23
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2011
Blackthorn
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Fool for Love
5.709/55
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2000
All the Pretty Horses
5.7/248
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Kurosawa
7/4
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Safe House
6.491/4019
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Raggedy Man
5.702/42
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Bright Angel
4.765/17
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Darling Companion
5/100
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Resurrection
6.531/49
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Mud
7.06/3139
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Shot in the Heart
6.024/21
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After the Harvest
8/1
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August: Osage County
6.863/1618
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
6.9/48
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Ruffian
8.042/12
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Out of the Furnace
6.558/2175
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Dash and Lilly
8.667/3
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Savannah
6.057/35
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Lily Dale
3.667/3
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Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
7/4
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Cold in July
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The Only Thrill
5/9
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Brothers
7.315/4028
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2012
Shepard & Dark
5.5/10
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Renaldo and Clara
7.9/11
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The Good Old Boys
6.682/12
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Never Here
4.913/23
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Ithaca
5.2/111
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Midnight Special
6.261/2102
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One Kill
7.25/4
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Snow Falling on Cedars
6.089/157
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The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
9/1
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Trudell
5.733/15
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Trudell
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Made in the USA
2/2
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2016
In Dubious Battle
5.809/160
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2006
Walker Payne
4.778/9
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Brand X
4.5/4
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2003
This So-Called Disaster
5.25/8
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2017
California Typewriter
6.9/32
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MaMa's Pushcart
0/0
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Dear Antonioni
0/0
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
7.007/150
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Fair Game
6.454/879
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