Sam Shepard
Acting
November 5, 1943
— July 27, 2017(73 years old)
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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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...
Also Known As
Samuel Shepard Rogers • Сем Шепард • سم شپارد • سام شپارد
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