Biography
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, and a record 10 Obie Awards. He was nominated for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. The New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
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Awards & recognition
- Pulitzer Prize — Drama · 1979
- Guggenheim Fellowship · 1971
- Guggenheim Fellowship · 1968
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- New York Drama Critics Award
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- Obie Award
- PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation — Theater Award
- star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
- Tony Award — Best Play · 2000 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Play · 1996 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1984 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Savage/Love
Paris, Texas
See You in My Dreams
The Notebook
Days of Heaven
Black Hawk Down
The Right Stuff
Brothers
Purgatory
Steel Magnolias
Bloodline
Klondike
Mud
Felon
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Zabriskie Point
California Typewriter
August: Osage County
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Frances
The Good Old Boys
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Out of the Furnace
Blackthorn
The Pledge
The Pelican Brief
Cold in July
Safe House
Fair Game
Far North
Resurrection
Baby Boom
Midnight Special
Swordfish
Streets of Laredo
Thunderheart
Charlotte's Web
Don't Come Knocking
Voyager
Savannah
Snow Falling on Cedars
Crimes of the Heart
Great Performances
Killing Them Softly
Inhale
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Bandidas
The Return
Tongues