Birthday: November 05, 1943
A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (for 1979's +Buried Child), an Oscar-nominated actor, and a director and screenwriter to boot, multi-talented Sam Shepard has made a career of plumbing the darker depths of middle-American rural sensibilities and Western myths. The son of a military man, he was born Samuel Shepard Rogers on November 3, 1943, in Fort Sheridan, IL. Following a ...more- 2007
- Screen Actors Guild
- Best Actor in a Telefilm or Miniseries
- Ruffian
- nom
- 1999
- Golden Globe
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Ma
- Dash and Lilly
- nom
- 1983
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic
- The Right Stuff
- nom
- 2007
- The Accidental Husband
- Wilder
- 2007
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Frank James
- 2006
- Charlotte's Web
- Narrator
- 2006
- Ruffian
- Franky Whiteley
- 2006
- Bandidas
- Bill Buck
- 2006
- Don't Come Knocking
- Screen Story
- 2006
- Don't Come Knocking
- Screenwriter
- 2004
- See You in My Dreams
- Short Story Author
- 2002
- True West
- Play Author
- 1999
- Simpatico
- Play Author















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