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Born November 5, 1943 · Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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.

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019

California Typewriter
2017

Never Here
2017

In Dubious Battle
2016

Midnight Special
2016

Ithaca
2015

Cold in July
2014

August: Osage County
2013

Out of the Furnace
2013

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013

Mud
2013

Savannah
2013

Shepard & Dark
2012

Killing Them Softly
2012

Darling Companion
2012

Safe House
2012

Blackthorn
2011

Inhale
2010

Fair Game
2010

Brothers
2009

Felon
2008

Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008

The Accidental Husband
2008

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007

Ruffian
2007

Charlotte's Web
2006

The Return
2006

Walker Payne
2006

Bandidas
2006

Don't Come Knocking
2005

Stealth
2005

Trudell
2005

The Notebook
2004

Blind Horizon
2003

This So-Called Disaster
2003

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002

Leo
2002

Black Hawk Down
2001

Shot in the Heart
2001

Swordfish
2001

After the Harvest
2001

The Pledge
2001

Kurosawa
2000

All the Pretty Horses
2000

One Kill
2000

Hamlet
2000

Snow Falling on Cedars
1999

Dash and Lilly
1999

Purgatory
1999

Curtain Call
1998

The Only Thrill
1997

Lily Dale
1996

The Good Old Boys
1995

Dear Antonioni
1995

Safe Passage
1994

Made in the USA
1993

The Pelican Brief
1993

Thunderheart
1992

Defenseless
1991

Voyager
1991

Bright Angel
1990

Steel Magnolias
1989

MaMa's Pushcart
1988

Baby Boom
1987

Crimes of the Heart
1986

Fool for Love
1985

Country
1984

The Right Stuff
1983

Frances
1982

Raggedy Man
1981

Resurrection
1980

Days of Heaven
1978

Renaldo and Clara
1978

Brand X
1970