
Sam Shepard
- Schauspiel
- 5. November 1943 – 27. Juli 2017 · im Alter von 73
- 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.
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Filmografie30
- 2016

Midnight SpecialFilm6.3
- 2015
BloodlineSerie7.1
- 2014
Cold in JulyFilm6.5
KlondikeSerie7.1
- 2013
- 2012
Killing Them SoftlyFilm6.0
Safe HouseFilm6.5
- 2009
BrothersFilm7.3
- 2008
FelonFilm7.1

- 2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordDie Ermordung des Jesse James durch den Feigling Robert Ford
Film7.1
- 2006

BandidasFilm6.1
- 2004
- 2001
Black Hawk DownFilm7.4


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Great PerformancesSerie6.1
- 1968
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InSerie6.8
- 1956
Tony AwardsSerie










