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Sam Shepard
(1943-2017)
American playwright and actor
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Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won ten Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most won by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. 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. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."

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Born Samuel Shepard Rogers III
5 November 1943
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
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27 July 2017 (aged 73)
Midway, Kentucky, USA
Zodiac Scorpio
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    Jesse info 1st child with O-Lan Jones Male b. May 1970 Age: 55 1970- Celebrity Baby
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    Hanna Jane info 2nd child with Jessica Lange Female b. 13 Jan 1986 Age: 39 1986- Celebrity Baby
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