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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).
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1943-11-05
- event Death Date 2017-07-27
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 11.9
- info Birth Place Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Sam Shepard
7.4
Black Hawk Down
2001-12-28
6.2
Voyager
1991-03-21
5.4
Stealth
2005-07-27
6.1
The Return
2006-11-10
6.9
Frances
1982-12-03
6.2
Don't Come Knocking
2005-08-25
6
Bandidas
2006-01-18
5.8
Hamlet
2000-05-12
7.2
Steel Magnolias
1989-11-15
7
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007-09-20
7.9
The Notebook
2004-06-25
6.3
Baby Boom
1987-10-07
6.5
The Pledge
2001-01-19
6
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008-04-02
6.4
Leo
2002-03-12
7.3
Purgatory
1999-01-10
5.7
Blind Horizon
2003-12-14
6.2
Thunderheart
1992-04-03
6.3
Swordfish
2001-06-08
7.5
The Right Stuff
1983-10-20
6
Inhale
2010-08-27
6.6
The Pelican Brief
1993-09-17
7.2
Felon
2008-07-17
6.3
Charlotte's Web
2006-12-07
5.5
The Accidental Husband
2008-02-29
6.4
Country
1984-09-29
5
Defenseless
1991-08-23
7.6
Days of Heaven
1978-09-13
6
Killing Them Softly
2012-07-30
6.1
Crimes of the Heart
1986-12-12
5
Curtain Call
1998-12-05
6
Safe Passage
1994-12-01
6.6
Blackthorn
2011-07-01
5.8
Fool for Love
1985-12-06
5.7
All the Pretty Horses
2000-12-11
6.7
Kurosawa
2000-12-24
6.5
Safe House
2012-02-08
5.2
Raggedy Man
1981-09-18
4.6
Bright Angel
1990-11-01
5
Darling Companion
2012-04-20
6.5
Resurrection
1980-09-26
7.1
Mud
2013-04-26
5.9
Shot in the Heart
2001-10-13
0
After the Harvest
2001-05-29
6.9
August: Osage County
2013-12-26
6.6
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013-09-11
8.7
Ruffian
2007-06-09
6.6
Out of the Furnace
2013-11-09
8
Dash and Lilly
1999-05-31
6.2
Savannah
2013-04-25
2
Lily Dale
1996-06-09
6.7
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002-09-01
6.6
Cold in July
2014-05-23
4.4
The Only Thrill
1997-01-04
7.4
Brothers
2009-12-02
5.9
Shepard & Dark
2012-09-11
8.1
Renaldo and Clara
1978-01-25
6.7
The Good Old Boys
1995-03-05
5.4
Never Here
2017-06-18
5.3
Ithaca
2015-10-29
6.2
Midnight Special
2016-02-18
6.3
One Kill
2000-08-06
6
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999-12-22
0
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007-12-07
5.8
Trudell
2005-01-20
2
Made in the USA
1993-09-25
5.9
In Dubious Battle
2016-10-08
4.3
Walker Payne
2006-04-27
4
Brand X
1970-05-18
4.2
This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"
2003-01-01
6.9
California Typewriter
2017-08-18
0
MaMa's Pushcart
1988-01-01
0
Dear Antonioni
1995-01-01
7.1
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019-06-11
6.5
Fair Game
2010-05-20
6.2
Streets of Laredo
1995-11-12
7.1
Klondike
2014-01-20
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
7.2
Bloodline
2015-03-20
6.4
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1967-09-09
4.9
Great Performances
1971-01-28
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4.9
Paris, Texas
1984-07-16
4.9
Zabriskie Point
1970-03-26
4.9
Simpatico
1999-09-15
4.9
Far North
1988-11-09
4.9
Silent Tongue
1993-01-28
4.9
Silent Tongue
1993-01-28
4.9
Renaldo and Clara
1978-01-25
4.9
Curse of the Starving Class
1994-09-13
4.9
Far North
1988-11-09
4.9
Oh! Calcutta!
1972-06-01
4.9
See You in My Dreams
2004-06-13
4.9
Fool for Love
1985-12-06
4.9
Fool for Love
1985-12-06
4.9
See You in My Dreams
2004-06-13
4.9
True West
2002-05-28
4.9
True West
1984-02-01
4.9
Don't Come Knocking
2005-08-25
4.9
Me and My Brother
1969-02-02
4.9
Buried Child
2016-11-28
4.9
Savage/Love
1981-08-10
4.9
Tongues
1982-08-10
4.9
Tongues
1982-08-10
4.9
True West
2016-01-20
4.9
The Assassination of President Kennedy
2013-11-14
4.9
Tesla
2020-08-14