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Jul 31, 2017 · The Pulitzer prize winning writer and star of stage and screen, known for performances in The Right Stuff and Bloodline, died at his home in Kentucky. Sam Shepard: the man who conquered...
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Aug 2, 2017 · B.J. Bethel August 02, 2017. Tweet. “ The Right Stuff ” is often called a historical epic, but it’s a film that defies labels, just like its star, actor-playwright Sam Shepard, who died last week at 72. Based on New Journalism pioneer Tom Wolfe ’s book about the Mercury 7 program and the early days of the space race, the movie mixed a ...
Jul 31, 2017 · Published July 31, 2017. Sam Shepard, who died July 27 at age 73, will be forever linked with the role that transformed him from a boundary-breaking playwright into a movie star, that of the...
The film stars Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, and Barbara Hershey; Levon Helm narrates and plays Air Force test pilot Jack Ridley . The Right Stuff was a box-office bomb, grossing about $21 million (domestically) against a $27 million budget.
- $21.1 million (domestic only)
- Bill Conti
- $27 million
- The Ladd Company
Aug 4, 2017 · Sam Shepard, playwright, actor and an icon of understated cool, died last week at the age of 73 due to complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. Shepard grew up on his family's avocado farm...
Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor who played legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff and the Rayburn family patriarch in the Netflix drama...
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.
