Sam Shepard

Actor

Born: November 5, 1943, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Died: July 27, 2017
Age: 73 years old
Zodiac: Scorpio
Total works: 93 movies, 8 TV shows
Latest work: Tesla (2020)
Genres: Thriller,Drama,Crime

Samuel Shepard Rogers III is an American playwright and actor who received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. Over his extensive career, he wrote 58 plays and numerous books, earning 10 Obie Awards, the most by any writer or director. Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). He appeared in films such as Black Hawk Down (2001), Safe House (2012), and The Accidental Husband (2008). In 2009, he was honored with the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist.