Sam Shepard

Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most 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."

5 November 1943

Born on the same birth date (5 November 1943): Friedman Paul Erhardt • Percy Hobson (high jumper)

Born on the same birth day (5 November): Alan G. Poindexter • Alphonse Desjardins (co-operator) • Ghazan • Hirotugu Akaike • Jeff Watson (guitarist) • Jerry Stackhouse • John Sutton (rugby league) • Jon Gray • Moritz Szeps • Taine Randell • Will Durant • Yannick Borel

Born in the same month (November 1943): Bert Jansch • Björn Waldegård • Bob Wollek • Dale Sommers • Doug Frost (swimming coach) • Friedman Paul Erhardt • Jacques Attali • Jerry Portnoy • Jil Sander • John Walker (musician) • Mushtaq Mohammad • Nicole Brossard • Oldřich Pelčák • Paul Burnett • Robin Williamson • Terrence Malick