Biography
Sam Shepard (born Samuel Shepard Rogers III) was an American actor and playwright. He appeared as William F. Garrison in Black Hawk Down (2001) and as Frank James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). His other film roles include Frank Calhoun in The Notebook (2004), Hank Cahill in Brothers (2009), Tom in Mud (2013) and Gerald 'Red' Baze in Out of the Furnace (2013).
Shepard wrote numerous plays and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for Buried Child. He won ten Obie Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). He was born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, on 5 November 1943 and died on 27 July 2017.
