“I would still like to keep my hand in the acting deal, as a character actor or in some way shape or form. And writing wise, I”
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Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, and a record 10 Obie Awards. He was nominated for two Tony Awards, an Acade…
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Born 5 November 1943 · Died 27 July 2017 · Q294583
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2026· 6 entries
“It became very difficult, you know, everything seemed sort of shattering. I didn”
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“t want to know about his work,”
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“He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad”
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“with a lot of guys from that area whom I had never had any contact with; for lack of a better word they were beatniks. They lived in this big old house and one of them was a painter and they were smoking a lot of dope out there, and they had stuff lying around like Beckett plays, Jackson Pollock reproductions, which I”
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2024· 1 entry
collider: Sam Shepard Reinvents Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy in This Gritty Western
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2023· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Sam Shepard's TRUE WEST Will Be Performed By The Pelican Players
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2017· 2 entries
At his home in Midway, Kentucky, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
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Died 2017-07-27.
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2015· 1 entry
Shepard was arrested again in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for aggravated drunk driving
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2014· 2 entries
Digital Spy: Sam Shepard to play Kyle Chandler's father in Netflix drama series
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And 2015, Shepard dated actress Mia Kirshner
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2013· 1 entry
His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld.
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2011· 1 entry
Shepard starred in the film Blackthorn
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2010· 1 entry
A Lie of the Mind was revived in New York at the same time as Shepard's new play Ages of the Moon opened there
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2009· 1 entry
And was sentenced to 24 months' probation, alcohol education classes, and 100 hours of community service
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2007· 1 entry
Shepard contributed banjo to Patti Smith's cover of Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on her album Twelve
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2003· 1 entry
Shepard's elder son, Jesse, wrote a book of short stories, and Shepard appeared with him at a reading at City Lights Bookstore
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2001· 1 entry
Shepard played General William F
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2000· 1 entry
Shepard demonstrated his gratitude to the Magic Theatre by staging The Late Henry Moss as a benefit for the theater, in San Francisco
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1987· 1 entry
Shepard starred with Diane Keaton in Baby Boom
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1986· 1 entry
And was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986
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1983· 2 entries
The Overtone Theatre and New Writers at the Westside co-produced Shepard's plays Superstitions and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife at La MaMa
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And they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009
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1982· 1 entry
In preparation for playing the pilot in the film The Right Stuff
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1981· 1 entry
Tony Barsha directed The Unseen Hand at La MaMa
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1979).
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1975· 2 entries
Moved to the 20-acre Flying Y Ranch in Mill Valley, California, where he raised a young colt named Drum and rode double with his young son on an appaloosa named Cody
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Shepard was named playwright-in-residence at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where he created many of his notable works, including his Family Trilogy
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1971).
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1969· 1 entry
Jeff Bleckner directed Shepard's play The Unseen Hand at La MaMa
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1968).
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1967· 2 entries
Tom O'Horgan directed Shepard's Melodrama Play alongside Leonard Melfi's Times Square and Rochelle Owens' Futz at La MaMa
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And The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders in 1968
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1966· 1 entry
Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play Icarus's Mother.
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1965· 1 entry
Shepard's one-act plays Dog and The Rocking Chair were produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
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1963· 1 entry
And found work as a busboy at the Village Gate nightclub
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1961· 1 entry
From Duarte High School in Duarte, California, he briefly studied animal husbandry at nearby Mt
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1943· 2 entries
Born 1943-11-05.
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In the Chicago suburb of Fort Sheridan, Illinois
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