Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/5/1943
Place of Birth
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
Samuel Shepard RogersСем Шепардسم شپارد
Sam Shepard
Biography
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 ma...
Known For
The Notebook
as Frank Calhoun
The Pledge
as Eric Pollack
Swordfish
as Senator Reisman
Black Hawk Down
as MG William F. Garrison
Brothers
as Hank Cahill
Raggedy Man
as Bailey
Safe House
as Harlan Whitford
Thunderheart
as Frank Coutelle
Fair Game
as Sam Plame
Stealth
as George Cummings
Walker Payne
as Syrus
The Pelican Brief
as Thomas Callahan
The Return
as Ed Mills
Mud
as Tom
Ruffian
as Frank Whiteley
Resurrection
as Cal
The Good Old Boys
as Tarnell
Purgatory
as Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Hamlet
as Ghost
Charlotte's Web
as Narrator (voice)