1943-11-05 Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Samuel Shepard Rogers III 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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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | The Writer | 2019-06-11 |
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California Typewriter | Self | 2017-08-18 |
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Never Here | Paul Stark | 2017-06-18 |
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Midnight Special | Calvin Meyer | 2016-02-18 |
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In Dubious Battle | Mr. Anderson | 2016-10-08 |
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Ithaca | Willie Grogan | 2015-10-29 |
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Cold in July | Russell | 2014-05-23 |
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August: Osage County | Beverly Weston | 2013-12-26 |
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Out of the Furnace | Gerald 'Red' Baze | 2013-11-12 |
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Mud | Tom | 2013-04-26 |
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Savannah | Mr. Stubbs | 2013-04-25 |
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Self | 2013-09-11 |
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Killing Them Softly | Dillon | 2012-07-30 |
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Shepard & Dark | Self | 2012-09-11 |
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Darling Companion | Sheriff Morris | 2012-04-20 |
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Safe House | Harlan Whitford | 2012-02-08 |
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Blackthorn | James Blackthorn | 2011-07-01 |
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Fair Game | Sam Plame | 2010-05-20 |
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Inhale | James Harrison | 2010-08-27 |
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Brothers | Hank Cahill | 2009-12-02 |
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Felon | Gordon | 2008-07-17 |
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The Accidental Husband | Wilder | 2008-02-29 |
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life | Self | 2008-04-02 |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Frank James | 2007-09-20 |
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Ruffian | Frank Whiteley | 2007-06-09 |
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The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose | Self | 2007-12-07 |
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Charlotte's Web | Narrator (voice) | 2006-12-07 |
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Bandidas | Bill Buck | 2006-01-18 |
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The Return | Ed Mills | 2006-11-10 |
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Walker Payne | Syrus | 2006-04-27 |
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Trudell | Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart) | 2005-01-20 |
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Don't Come Knocking | Howard | 2005-08-25 |
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Stealth | George Cummings | 2005-07-27 |
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The Notebook | Frank Calhoun | 2004-05-25 |
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This So-Called Disaster | Self | 2003-01-01 |
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Blind Horizon | Sheriff Jack Kolb | 2003-12-14 |
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Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick | Self | 2002-09-01 |
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Leo | Vic | 2002-03-12 |
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Shot in the Heart | Frank Gilmore, Sr. | 2001-10-13 |
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After the Harvest | Caleb Gare | 2001-05-29 |
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Swordfish | Senator Reisman | 2001-06-08 |
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Black Hawk Down | MG William F. Garrison | 2001-12-28 |
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The Pledge | Eric Pollack | 2001-01-19 |
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One Kill | Maj. Nelson Gray | 2000-08-06 |
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All the Pretty Horses | J.C. Franklin | 2000-12-11 |
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Hamlet | Ghost | 2000-05-12 |
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Kurosawa | Narrator (voice) | 2000-12-24 |
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Purgatory | Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock | 1999-01-10 |
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Snow Falling on Cedars | Arthur Chambers | 1999-12-22 |
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Dash and Lilly | Dashiell Hammett | 1999-05-31 |
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Curtain Call | Will Dodge | 1998-12-05 |
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The Only Thrill | Reece McHenry | 1997-01-04 |
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Lily Dale | Pete Davenport | 1996-06-09 |
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Caro Antonioni | Self | 1995-01-01 |
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The Good Old Boys | Tarnell | 1995-03-05 |
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Safe Passage | Patrick | 1994-12-01 |
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Made in the USA | Self | 1993-09-25 |
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The Pelican Brief | Thomas Callahan | 1993-09-17 |
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Thunderheart | Frank Coutelle | 1992-04-03 |
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Defenseless | Det. Beutel | 1991-08-23 |
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Homo Faber | Walter Faber | 1991-03-21 |
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Bright Angel | Jack Russell | 1990-11-01 |
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Steel Magnolias | Spud Jones | 1989-11-15 |
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MaMa's Pushcart | 1988-01-01 | |
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Baby Boom | Dr. Jeff Cooper | 1987-10-07 |
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Crimes of the Heart | Doc Porter | 1986-12-12 |
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Fool for Love | Eddie | 1985-12-06 |
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Country | Gil Ivy | 1984-09-29 |
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The Right Stuff | Chuck Yeager | 1983-10-20 |
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Frances | Harry York | 1982-12-03 |
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Raggedy Man | Bailey | 1981-09-18 |
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Resurrection | Cal | 1980-09-26 |
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Days of Heaven | The Farmer | 1978-09-13 |
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Renaldo and Clara | Rodeo | 1978-01-25 |
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Brand X | 1970-05-18 |
