塞缪尔·谢泼德·罗杰斯三世（1943 年 11 月 5 日 - 2017 年 7 月 27 日）是一位美国演员、剧作家、作家、导演和编剧，其职业生涯跨越了半个世纪。他获得了 10 项奥比奖的编剧和导演奖，是所有编剧或导演中最多的。1979 年，他凭借戏剧《被埋葬的孩子》（获得五项托尼奖提名）获得普利策戏剧奖，并因在 1983 年的电影《正确的东西》中饰演飞行员查克·耶格尔而获得奥斯卡最佳男配角奖提名。2009年，他作为美国戏剧大师获得了笔会/劳拉·佩尔斯戏剧奖。《纽约》杂志称他为“他那一代最伟大的美国剧作家”。他写了 58 部戏剧以及几本短篇小说、散文和回忆录。

作为一名演员，他最著名的角色是《午夜特辑》中的卡尔文·迈耶、Netflix 剧集《血统》中的罗伯特·雷伯恩、《八月：奥塞奇县》中的贝弗利·韦斯顿、《安全屋》中的哈兰·惠特福德、《兄弟》中的汉克·卡希尔、《懦夫罗伯特·福特刺杀杰西·詹姆斯》中的弗兰克·詹姆斯、《隐身》中的乔治·卡明斯、《笔记本》中的弗兰克·卡尔霍恩、 《黑鹰坠落》中的威廉·加里森将军、《所有漂亮的马》中的J.C.富兰克林、《鹈鹕简报》中的托马斯·卡拉汉、《雷霆之心》中的弗兰克·库特尔、《钢木兰》中的斯普德·琼斯、《婴儿潮》中的杰夫·库珀博士、《心灵之罪》中的波特博士和《正确的东西》中的查克·耶格尔。

多年来，他在剧本创作和戏剧的其他方面进行了广泛的教学。他在各种戏剧工作坊、艺术节和大学举办课程和研讨会。他于1986年当选为美国艺术与文学学院院士，并于1986年当选为美国艺术与科学院院士。

从 1969 年到 1984 年，他与女演员 O-Lan Jones 结婚，育有一子 Jesse Mojo Shepard（生于 1970 年）。从1970年到1971年，他与音乐家帕蒂·史密斯（Patti Smith）发生了婚外情。加拿大创作歌手乔尼·米切尔（Joni Mitchell）在1975年鲍勃·迪伦（Bob Dylan）的《滚雷》（Rolling Thunder Revue）巡回演唱会上写了两首关于她与他的恋情的歌曲。在她的第八张录音室专辑《Hejira》中的“Coyote”中，她讲述了他在已婚并与巡演经理克里斯汀·奥戴尔（Christine O'Dell）发生婚外情的时期对她的诱惑，台词是：“他家里有一个女人，大厅里还有另一个女人，但他似乎还是想要我。

他在 1982 年的电影《弗朗西斯》的片场遇到了女演员杰西卡·兰格，他们都出演了这部电影。他于 1983 年搬来和她住在一起，他们在一起 27 年;他们于2009年分居。他们有两个孩子，汉娜·简·谢泼德（Hannah Jane Shepard，生于1986年）和塞缪尔·沃克·谢泼德（Samuel Walker Shepard，生于1987年）。

2014 年和 2015 年，他与女演员米娅·基什纳 （Mia Kirshner） 约会。

他与奥兰·琼斯（O-Lan Jones）的继父约翰尼·达克（Johnny Dark）的50年友谊是2013年特雷瓦·沃姆菲尔德（Treva Wurmfeld）的纪录片《谢泼德与黑暗》（Shepard & Dark）的主题。谢泼德和达克的书信集《两个探矿者》也在同年出版。

他于 2017 年 7 月 27 日在肯塔基州中途岛的家中去世，享年 73 岁，死于肌萎缩侧索硬化症 （ALS） 并发症。

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) 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 received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child (which was nominated for five Tony Awards) 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 him as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.

As an actor, his best known roles are as Calvin Meyer in Midnight Special, Robert Rayburn on Netflix's series Bloodline, Beverly Weston in August: Osage County, Harlan Whitford in Safe House, Hank Cahill in Brothers, Frank James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, George Cummings in Stealth, Frank Calhoun in The Notebook, Master General William F. Garrison in Black Hawk Down, J.C. Franklin in All the Pretty Horses, Thomas Callahan in The Pelican Brief, Frank Coutelle in Thunderheart, Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias, Dr. Jeff Cooper in Baby Boom, Doc Porter in Crimes of the Heart, and Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.

Over the years, he taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater. He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops, festivals, and universities. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.

From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress O-Lan Jones, with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (born 1970). From 1970 to 1971, he was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith. Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with him during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. In "Coyote", from her eighth studio album Hejira, she recounts his seduction of her at a period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with tour manager Christine O'Dell with the lines: "He's got a woman at home, another woman down the hall, but he seems to want me anyway."

He met actress Jessica Lange on the set of the 1982 film Frances, in which they both acted. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009. They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987).

In 2014 and 2015, he dated actress Mia Kirshner.

His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld. A collection of Shepard and Dark's correspondence, Two Prospectors, was also published that year.

He died on July 27, 2017, at his home in Midway, KY, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).