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.
75 movies · 6 shows
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019·7.0
California Typewriter
2017·6.9
Never Here
2017·4.9
In Dubious Battle
2016·5.8
Midnight Special
2016·6.3
Ithaca
2015·5.2
Cold in July
2014·6.5
August: Osage County
2013·6.9
Out of the Furnace
2013·6.6
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013·6.9
Mud
2013·7.1
Savannah
2013·6.2
Shepard & Dark
2012·5.5
Killing Them Softly
2012·6.0
Darling Companion
2012·5.0
Safe House
2012·6.5
Blackthorn
2011·6.6
Inhale
2010·6.0
Fair Game
2010·6.5
Brothers
2009·7.3
Felon
2008·7.1
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008·6.1
The Accidental Husband
2008·5.6
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007·9.0
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007·7.1
Ruffian
2007·8.6
Charlotte's Web
2006·6.2
The Return
2006·6.0
Walker Payne
2006·4.8
Bandidas
2006·6.0
Don't Come Knocking
2005·6.2
Stealth
2005·5.5
Trudell
2005·5.7
The Notebook
2004·7.9
Blind Horizon
2003·5.8
This So-Called Disaster
2003·5.3
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002·7.0
Leo
2002·6.1
Black Hawk Down
2001·7.4
Shot in the Heart
2001·6.0
Swordfish
2001·6.3
After the Harvest
2001·8.0
The Pledge
2001·6.6
Kurosawa
2000·7.0
All the Pretty Horses
2000·5.7
One Kill
2000·7.3
Hamlet
2000·5.8
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999·6.1
Dash and Lilly
1999·8.7
Purgatory
1999·7.2
Curtain Call
1998·5.1
The Only Thrill
1997·5.0
Lily Dale
1996·3.7
The Good Old Boys
1995·6.7
Dear Antonioni
1995·0.0
Safe Passage
1994·5.9
Made in the USA
1993·2.0
The Pelican Brief
1993·6.6
Thunderheart
1992·6.3
Defenseless
1991·4.9
Voyager
1991·6.2
Bright Angel
1990·4.9
Steel Magnolias
1989·7.2
MaMa's Pushcart
1988·0.0
Baby Boom
1987·6.4
Crimes of the Heart
1986·6.1
Fool for Love
1985·5.6
Country
1984·6.5
The Right Stuff
1983·7.4
Frances
1982·6.9
Raggedy Man
1981·5.6
Resurrection
1980·6.5
Days of Heaven
1978·7.5
Renaldo and Clara
1978·7.9
Brand X
1970·4.5