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Playwright, Director and Actor Sam Shepard Passes Away at 73
Broadway World ^
| 07/31/2017
| BWW News Desk
Posted on 07/31/2017 8:23:30 AM PDT by DFG
BroadwayWorld has just learned that playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director Sam Shepard has passed away. Shepard, who had been ill with ALS for some time, died peacefully on July 30 at home in Kentucky, surrounded by his children and sisters. He was 73 years old.
Shepard is the author of forty-four 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. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983).
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KEYWORDS: broadway; hollywood; rightstuff; shepard; yeager
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:23:30 AM PDT
by
DFG
To: DFG
Was excellent in that role. Didn’t know he wrote plays.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:24:42 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: DFG
Oh, too bad. He was so good in “The Right Stuff.”
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:24:42 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("The less free you are, the more you are obliged to applaud.")
To: DFG
He was a good actor:
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:28:11 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: DFG
RIP and thanks for the memories................
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:29:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: DFG
Wow, I had no idea he had written so much. R.I.P.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:29:59 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: DFG
Sad news. Didn’t know he was suffering from ALS. He made a great transition from playwright to movie actor. I particularly liked Days of Heaven and The Right Stuff. He was also good in Black Hawk Down. RIP.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:32:09 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: DFG
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:32:40 AM PDT
by
relictele
To: DFG
“Hey Ridley......you got some beemans?”
And yet the ancient Chuck Yeager lives on.
RIP.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:33:48 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: relictele
Don’t I know it. My family watched that horrible disease cripple my dad limb-by-limb for more than three years before he finally succumbed. Nobody deserves to suffer like this.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:34:59 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: DFG
An engaging actor. Who couldn’t love his characters? No mention of love.
His days in Santa Fe with then wife Jessica Lang seemed a compatible fit.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:36:57 AM PDT
by
RitaOK
(Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
To: DFG
Yeager outlived the younger actor who portrayed him. Amazing.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:36:58 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
To: Tax-chick
“Anybody that goes up in the damn thing is gonna be spam in a can!”
What a great line.
RIP Mr. Shepard
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:38:54 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: Vaquero
And Ridley was played by Levon Helm, of The Band, who was a pretty fair actor himself, not to mention a hell of a drummer.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:39:04 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: DFG
Wow, he will be missed. May you Rest In Peace, Sam, and our prayers are with your loved ones. Thank you for making such good use of your God-given talent.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:39:14 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
To: vladimir998
Was great in Baby Boom playing the Vet Doctor.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:41:30 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
(Rudy Guiuliani for Head of FBI)
To: DFG
No mention of Jessica Lang?
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:52:50 AM PDT
by
angcat
(THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
To: LS
Almost his entire career was writing plays.
Lousy plays, IMO, but that’s what he did for a living.
To: DFG
Sam Shepherd played a great role as Robert Rayburn in “Bloodline” (2015). Always one of my favorites. Rest in peace.
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posted on
07/31/2017 8:57:04 AM PDT
by
cblue55
("Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants,")
To: Tax-chick
"The Right Stuff" is one of my all-time favorite movies (the book by Tom Wolfe is pretty good as well). The movie portrayed an America that used to be. Some artistic license was taken with the dialogues and personal situations of the characters but by and large, the book and movie accurately portrayed how the sound barrier was broken and the early years of our space program.
I can't believe Sam Shepard was 73 - we all get old so quickly. We need to appreciate every day of the life that we have.
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