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Sam Shepard
American playwright and actor (1943–2017)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 5 November 1943
- Died
- 27 July 2017
- Place of birth
- Fort Sheridan
- Place of death
- Midway
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Shepard
- Mother
- Jane Elaine Schook
- Spouse
- O-Lan Jones
- Genre
- Western
- Occupation
- actor, film director, screenwriter, dramaturge, playwright, stage actor, film actor, theatre director, autobiographer, musician, director, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Obie Award, New York Drama Critics Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center, Wittliff collections
- birth name
- Samuel Shepard Rogers III
- cause of death
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- end of work period
- 2017
- filmography
- Sam Shepard filmography
- has works in the collection
- Harvard Film Archive
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Writers Guild of America West
- name in native language
- Sam Shepard
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Award for Best Play
- number of children
- 3
- personal library at
- Harry Ransom Center
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Sam Shepard
- start of work period
- 1960s
- unmarried partner
- Jessica Lange
- writing language
- English
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