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."
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Filmography
Acting Credits (80)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Writer
2019
California Typewriter
Self
2017
Never Here
Paul Stark
2017
In Dubious Battle
Mr. Anderson
2016
Midnight Special
Calvin Meyer
2016
