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Sam Shepard
November 5, 1943 (age 73)
July 27, 2017
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Male
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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…
Movies
75 credits
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Black Hawk Down
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Mud
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Brothers
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The Pledge
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Fair Game
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Bandidas
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Out of the Furnace
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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Blind Horizon
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Killing Them Softly
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The Return
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Steel Magnolias
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Safe House
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Swordfish
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The Pelican Brief
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The Right Stuff
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Charlotte's Web
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Stealth
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Days of Heaven
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Ruffian
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Purgatory
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Darling Companion
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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Felon
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Baby Boom
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Trudell
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Raggedy Man
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Patti Smith: Dream of Life
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Midnight Special
TV Shows
5 credits
TV
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Bloodline
TV
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV
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Klondike
TV
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Streets of Laredo