Cast
Sam Shepard
1943 – 2017
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1978–1991
- Schools and movements
- New HollywoodAmerican Independent CinemaNew German Cinema
Directors worked with
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, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. 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 and honours
International
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1979
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- New York Drama Critics Award
- star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
National / local
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1968
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1971
- Obie Award
- PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award
3 films on this site
- Days of Heaven 1978 · Terrence Malick · IMDb 7.7 · Cast
- Country 1984 · Richard Pearce · IMDb 6.6 · Cast
- Homo Faber 1991 · Volker Schlöndorff · IMDb 6.7 · Cast