• 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.
  • Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers...
  • Shepard also achieved fame as an actor, writer, and director in the film industry, and appeared in numerous films and TV shows throughout his career.
  • In the 1965–66 season Shepard won Obie Awards (presented by the Village Voice newspaper) for his plays Chicago , Icarus’s Mother , and Red Cross .
  • Sam Shepard’s plays are often set amidst scruffy lives being played out on the margins of wealthy United States society.
  • Sam Shepard's plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres.
  • The taciturn Shepard, who grew up on a California ranch, was a man of few words who nevertheless produced 44 plays and numerous books, memoirs and short...
  • In 1986, Shepard was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992.
  • A prolific writer of 57 plays – 11 of which have won Obie Awards – as well as of numerous short stories, poems and musical and dance compositions, Shepard also...
  • Sam Shepard, 27 Temmuz 2017 tarihinde Kentucky'deki evinde 74 yaşında Amiyotrofik Lateral Skleroz (ALS) hastalığına bağlı komplikasyonlar sebebiyle öldü.