Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child (which was nominated for five Tony Awards) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 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 him as the greatest American playwright of his generation. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.As an actor, his best known roles are as Calvin Meyer in Midnight Special, Robert Rayburn on Netflixs series Bloodline, Beverly Weston in August Osage County, Harlan Whitford in Safe House, Hank Cahill in Brothers, Frank James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, George Cummings in Stealth, Frank Calhoun in The Notebook, Master General William F. Garrison in Black Hawk Down, J.C. Franklin in All the Pretty Horses, Thomas Callahan in The Pelican Brief, Frank Coutelle in Thunderheart, Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias, Dr. Jeff Cooper in Baby Boom, Doc Porter in Crimes of the Heart, and Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.Over the years, he taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater. He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops, festivals, and universities. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress O-Lan Jones, with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (born 1970). From 1970 to 1971, he was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith. Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with him during Bob Dylans Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. In Coyote, from her eighth studio album Hejira, she recounts his seduction of her at a period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with tour manager Christine ODell with the lines Hes got a woman at home, another woman down the hall, but he seems to want me anyway.He met actress Jessica Lange on the set of the 1982 film Frances, in which they both acted. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009. They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987).In 2014 and 2015, he dated actress Mia Kirshner.His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld. A collection of Shepard and Darks correspondence, Two Prospectors, was also published that year.He died on July 27, 2017, at his home in Midway, KY, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Filme indisponibile de la Sam Shepard

Voyager

Walter Faber

Film 1991

Hamlet

Ghost

Film 2000

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Self

Film 2008

Blind Horizon

Sheriff Jack Kolb

Film 2003

Charlotte's Web

Narrator (voice)

Film 2006

Blackthorn

James Blackthorn

Film 2011

Kurosawa

Narrator (voice)

Film 2000

Darling Companion

Sheriff Morris

Film 2012

Resurrection

Cal

Film 1980

Shot in the Heart

Frank Gilmore, Sr.

Film 2001

After the Harvest

Caleb Gare

Film 2001

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Self

Film 2013

Ruffian

Frank Whiteley

Film 2007

Savannah

Mr. Stubbs

Film 2013

Lily Dale

Pete Davenport

Film 1996

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Self

Film 2002

Cold in July

Russell

Film 2014

Shepard & Dark

Self

Film 2012

Renaldo and Clara

Rodeo

Film 1978

Never Here

Paul Stark

Film 2017

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

Self

Film 2007

Trudell

Self - Playwright, Actor (Thunderheart)

Film 2005

Made in the USA

Self

Film 1993

Walker Payne

Syrus

Film 2006

Brand X

Film 1970

This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs "The Late Henry Moss"

Self

Film 2003

California Typewriter

Self

Film 2017

MaMa's Pushcart

Film 1988

Dear Antonioni

Self

Film 1995

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

The Writer

Film 2019

Filme seriale TV indisponibile de la Sam Shepard

Klondike

Father Judge

Tv 2014

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee

Tv 1956

Bloodline

Robert Rayburn

Tv 2015

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Self (uncredited)

Tv 1967

Great Performances

Self

Tv 1971