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Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard was both a prize-winning playwright and an an acclaimed actor. He won a Pulitzer for Drama for Buried Child in 1979 and wrote more than 40 other plays as well as short stories and essays.
Jul 31, 2017 · The end of Sam Shepard's life is a disaster for theater and cinema. The 73-year-old playwright and actor, who both embodied and critiqued rough-hewn American frontier ideals of masculinity, died Thursday in Kentucky, surrounded by family, following a long, mostly private struggle with ALS. He was still a present tense force in the American ...
1962–2017. Sam Shepard was an American actor, screenwriter, playwright, director and author. The following is his screen filmography as an actor, screenwriter, and director. Shepard was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Chuck Yeager in the film The Right Stuff (1983). The following year, he was ...
Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard: the man who conquered Broadway and Hollywood. Read more. Shepard started writing plays in the 60s. “Back then, there was a dearth of American theatre,” he told the Observer in ...
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Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. Chris Boneau, a spokesperson for Shepard’s family, tells CNN he ...
Aug 1, 2017 · Even as he battled a debilitating disease in his final years, Sam Shepard stayed hard at work — as only close colleagues knew of his health struggles. The acclaimed actor, playwright and writer ...
Jul 31, 2017 · Shepard is survived by his two sisters, Sandy and Roxanne Rogers, and his three children: Jesse Mojo, 47, from his marriage to O-Lan Jones, as well as Hannah Jane, 31, and Samuel Walker, 30, from ...
