Sam Shepard Biography

Sam Shepard, Playwright

Born as	Samuel Shepard Rogers III
Occup.	Playwright
From	USA
Born	November 5, 1943 Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Died	July 27, 2017 Midway, Kentucky, USA
Cause	Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Aged	73 years

Sam Shepard was an American playwright, star, as well as supervisor. He was born on November 5, 1943, in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Shepard wrote over 40 plays and won a Pulitzer Prize for dramatization in 1979 for his play "Buried Child".

Shepard grew up on a farm in California and also went to Mount San Antonio College before moving to New York City in the very early 1960s. He swiftly ended up being associated with the downtown movie theater scene as well as signed up with the speculative movie theater firm The Wooster Group in the 1970s.

Shepard made his movie debut in 1978 with the critically acclaimed dramatization "Days of Heaven", routed by Terrence Malick. He took place to show up in several films, consisting of "The Right Stuff", "Steel Magnolias", and "August: Osage County". He was additionally a respected playwright as well as created several plays, including "True West", "Curse of the Starving Class", as well as "Fool for Love".

Along with his composing as well as acting, Shepard was additionally a skilled artist as well as composed and also did songs with his band, The Holy Modal Rounders.

Shepard was recognized for his representations of rugged, masculine characters, commonly discovering motifs of family disorder and Americana in his job. He was likewise recognized for his scheduled nature as well as exclusive individual life.

Shepard was identified with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2015. He died on July 27, 2017, at his residence in Kentucky at the age of 73.

Throughout his profession, Shepard obtained lots of awards as well as honors, consisting of a Tony Award for his function in "Buried Child" and also an Academy Award election for his sustaining duty in "The Right Stuff". He was a leader in the American movie theater motion and also left a long-term influence on the world of movie theater and also movie.

Our collection contains 7 quotes who is written / told by Sam, under the main topic Home.

Related authors: Lou Gehrig (Athlete), Alicia Witt (Actress), Jessica Lange (Actress)

Sam Shepard Famous Works:

1978 Curse of the Starving Class (Play)
1978 Buried Child (Play)
1980 True West (Play)
1983 Fool for Love (Play)
1984 Paris, Texas (Screenplay)
1985 A Lie of the Mind (Play)

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7 Famous quotes by Sam Shepard

"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer"

"Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play"

"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself"

"Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism"

"I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write"

"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by"

"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side"