Sam Shepard
Birthday: 1943-11-05
Place of Birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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." 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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Black Hawk Down
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Voyager
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Stealth
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The Return
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Frances
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Don't Come Knocking
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Bandidas
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Hamlet
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Steel Magnolias
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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The Notebook
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Baby Boom
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The Pledge
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life
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Leo
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Purgatory
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Blind Horizon
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Thunderheart
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Swordfish
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The Right Stuff
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The Pelican Brief
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Felon
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Charlotte's Web
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The Accidental Husband
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Country
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Defenseless
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Days of Heaven
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Killing Them Softly
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Crimes of the Heart
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Curtain Call
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Safe Passage
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Blackthorn
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Fool for Love
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All the Pretty Horses
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Safe House
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Raggedy Man
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Bright Angel
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Darling Companion
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Resurrection
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Mud
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Shot in the Heart
The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the pr...
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After the Harvest
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August: Osage County
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have d...
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, fi...
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Ruffian
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Out of the Furnace
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Dash and Lilly
Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman sha...
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Savannah
Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantat...
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Lily Dale
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Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
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Cold in July
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The Only Thrill
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Brothers
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Shepard & Dark
An indelible portrait of the complex relationship between playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his c...
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Renaldo and Clara
Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring ...
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The Good Old Boys
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Never Here
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Ithaca
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Midnight Special
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers....
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One Kill
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
A look back on the weird and wasted career of the Holy Modal Rounders....
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Trudell
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performan...
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In Dubious Battle
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Walker Payne
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Brand X
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This So-Called Disaster
Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production o...
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California Typewriter
A story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. A meditation on creativity and techno...
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MaMa's Pushcart
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Dear Antonioni
A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay....
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of Ame...
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Fair Game
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