Sam Shepard Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sam Shepard Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 â€" July 27, 2017) was an

American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose

career spanned half a century. He won ten Obie Awards for writing and

directing, the most won by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays

as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.

Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play

Buried Child 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

Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his

generation."Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic,

surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on

the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the

absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later

plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.Shepard was

born on November 5, 1943, in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. He was named

Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers,

Jr., but was called Steve Rogers. Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr.

(1917â€"1984) was a teacher and farmer who served in the United States

Army Air Forces as a bomber pilot during World War II. Shepard

characterized his father as "a drinking man, a dedicated alcoholic".

His mother, Jane Elaine (née Schook; 1917â€"1994), was a teacher and

a native of Chicago.
Sam Shepard Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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