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Sam Shepard‌

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Birthday

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Sam Shepard

Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

Sam Shepard

Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1943-11-05

Popularity

star14.1

Biography

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child (which was nominated for five Tony Awards) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 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 him as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. As an actor, his best known roles are as Calvin Meyer in Midnight Special, Robert Rayburn on Netflix's series Bloodline, Beverly Weston in August: Osage County, Harlan Whitford in Safe House, Hank Cahill in Brothers, Frank James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, George Cummings in Stealth, Frank Calhoun in The Notebook, Master General William F. Garrison in Black Hawk Down, J.C. Franklin in All the Pretty Horses, Thomas Callahan in The Pelican Brief, Frank Coutelle in Thunderheart, Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias, Dr. Jeff Cooper in Baby Boom, Doc Porter in Crimes of the Heart, and Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Over the years, he taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater. He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops, festivals, and universities. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986. From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress O-Lan Jones, with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (born 1970). From 1970 to 1971, he was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith. Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with him during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. In "Coyote", from her eighth studio album Hejira, she recounts his seduction of her at a period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with tour manager Christine O'Dell with the lines: "He's got a woman at home, another woman down the hall, but he seems to want me anyway." He met actress Jessica Lange on the set of the 1982 film Frances, in which they both acted. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009. They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987). In 2014 and 2015, he dated actress Mia Kirshner. His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld. A collection of Shepard and Dark's correspondence, Two Prospectors, was also published that year. He died on July 27, 2017, at his home in Midway, KY, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Movie Credits

Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down‌
star7.4
calendar 2001

Voyager

Voyager‌
star6.2
calendar 1991

Stealth

Stealth‌
star5.4
calendar 2005

The Return

The Return‌
star6.1
calendar 2006

Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking‌
star6.2
calendar 2005

Frances

Frances‌
star6.9
calendar 1982

Bandidas

Bandidas‌
star6.0
calendar 2006

Hamlet

Hamlet‌
star5.8
calendar 2000

Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias‌
star7.2
calendar 1989

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford‌
star7.0
calendar 2007

The Notebook

The Notebook‌
star7.9
calendar 2004

Baby Boom

Baby Boom‌
star6.3
calendar 1987

The Pledge

The Pledge‌
star6.5
calendar 2001

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Patti Smith: Dream of Life‌
star6.0
calendar 2008

Leo

Leo‌
star6.4
calendar 2002

Purgatory

Purgatory‌
star7.3
calendar 1999

Blind Horizon

Blind Horizon‌
star5.7
calendar 2003

Thunderheart

Thunderheart‌
star6.2
calendar 1992

Swordfish

Swordfish‌
star6.2
calendar 2001

The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff‌
star7.4
calendar 1983

Inhale

Inhale‌
star6.0
calendar 2010

The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief‌
star6.6
calendar 1993

Felon

Felon‌
star7.2
calendar 2008

Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web‌
star6.2
calendar 2006

The Accidental Husband

The Accidental Husband‌
star5.5
calendar 2008

Country

Country‌
star6.4
calendar 1984

Defenseless

Defenseless‌
star5.0
calendar 1991

Days of Heaven

Days of Heaven‌
star7.5
calendar 1978

Killing Them Softly

Killing Them Softly‌
star6.0
calendar 2012

Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart‌
star6.1
calendar 1986

Curtain Call

Curtain Call‌
star5.0
calendar 1998

Safe Passage

Safe Passage‌
star6.0
calendar 1994

Blackthorn

Blackthorn‌
star6.6
calendar 2011

Fool for Love

Fool for Love‌
star5.8
calendar 1985

All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses‌
star5.7
calendar 2000

Kurosawa

Kurosawa‌
star6.7
calendar 2000

Safe House

Safe House‌
star6.5
calendar 2012

Raggedy Man

Raggedy Man‌
star5.2
calendar 1981

Bright Angel

Bright Angel‌
star4.6
calendar 1990

Darling Companion

Darling Companion‌
star5.0
calendar 2012

Resurrection

Resurrection‌
star6.5
calendar 1980

Mud

Mud‌
star7.1
calendar 2013

Shot in the Heart

Shot in the Heart‌
star5.9
calendar 2001

After the Harvest

After the Harvest‌
star0.0
calendar 2001

August: Osage County

August: Osage County‌
star6.9
calendar 2013

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction‌
star6.6
calendar 2013

Ruffian

Ruffian‌
star8.7
calendar 2007

Out of the Furnace

Out of the Furnace‌
star6.6
calendar 2013

Dash and Lilly

Dash and Lilly‌
star8.0
calendar 1999

Savannah

Savannah‌
star6.2
calendar 2013

Lily Dale

Lily Dale‌
star2.0
calendar 1996

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick‌
star6.7
calendar 2002

Cold in July

Cold in July‌
star6.6
calendar 2014

The Only Thrill

The Only Thrill‌
star4.4
calendar 1997

Brothers

Brothers‌
star7.3
calendar 2009

Shepard & Dark

Shepard & Dark‌
star5.9
calendar 2012

Renaldo and Clara

Renaldo and Clara‌
star8.1
calendar 1978

The Good Old Boys

The Good Old Boys‌
star6.5
calendar 1995

Never Here

Never Here‌
star5.4
calendar 2017

Ithaca

Ithaca‌
star5.3
calendar 2015

Midnight Special

Midnight Special‌
star6.2
calendar 2016

One Kill

One Kill‌
star6.3
calendar 2000

Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars‌
star6.0
calendar 1999

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose‌
star0.0
calendar 2007

Trudell

Trudell‌
star5.8
calendar 2005

Made in the USA

Made in the USA‌
star2.0
calendar 1993

In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle‌
star5.9
calendar 2016

Walker Payne

Walker Payne‌
star4.3
calendar 2006

Brand X

Brand X‌
star4.0
calendar 1970

This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"

This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"‌
star4.2
calendar 2003

California Typewriter

California Typewriter‌
star6.9
calendar 2017

MaMa's Pushcart

MaMa's Pushcart‌
star0.0
calendar 1988

Dear Antonioni

Dear Antonioni‌
star0.0
calendar 1995

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese‌
star7.1
calendar 2019

Fair Game

Fair Game‌
star6.5
calendar 2010

Tv Credits

Streets of Laredo

Streets of Laredo‌
star6.2
calendar 1995

Klondike

Klondike‌
star7.1
calendar 2014

Tony Awards

Tony Awards‌
star5.0
calendar 1956

Bloodline

Bloodline‌
star7.1
calendar 2015

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In‌
star6.4
calendar 1967

Great Performances

Great Performances‌
star4.9
calendar 1971