Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 73 July 31, 2017 More than 7 years ago Celebrated playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died at 73.

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. ... GROSS: When you were young, ...

Writer and actor Sam Shepard. (Courtesy Grant Delin) Sam Shepard once said, "I could go on and on about death. One of my favorite subjects — so long as you can keep it at arm’s length." ...

The movie star — who got his start acting opposite Shepard in the Terrence Malick classic — pens a tribute to the playwright-actor, who died Thursday from ALS-related complications.

Remembering Sam Shepard. The ... where he played the real-life test pilot Chuck Yeager and was nominated for his only Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. But Shepard was a ... young son, and ...

I first met Sam Shepard in Chicago at a rehearsal for Steppenwolf’s production of his play “Buried Child” in 1995. At the morning coffee break, over bagels and orange juice, he asked if I ...

The first rule of being Bob Dylan’s friend, it’s said, is to not talk about Bob Dylan. A similar code of omertà appears to apply to Sam Shepard, the playwright and actor, and it has held ...

“Sam was an exciting central figure in our young Greenwich Village ’60s revolutionary theater,” van Itallie wrote to me after the news broke of Shepard’s death.

Most accounts of Sam Shepard’s life tell the same story: A Beckett-inspired young man heads to New York in the ’60s and remakes himself as Sam Shepard, the offbeat, off-Broadway playwright.

After Amiri Baraka, Sam Shepard, who died last week, at the age of seventy-three, was this nation’s first hip-hop playwright. In astonishing early works like “The Tooth of Crime” (1972) and ...

Shepard, who died Sunday, penned more than 55 plays, including Buried Child.His breakthrough film role was as astronaut Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Originally broadcast in 1998.