Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Nació el 5 de noviembre de 1943 en Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA, murió el 27 de julio de 2017.

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 master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."

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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.

Purgatory (7.2) Camino al infierno Película · 1999 como Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
Hamlet (5.8) Hamlet, una historia eterna Película · 2000 como Ghost
Stealth (5.5) Stealth: La amenaza invisible Película · 2005 como George Cummings