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Sam Shepard: A life in photos
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Sam Shepard, the celebrated playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, has died at the age of 73. A family spokesperson confirmed that Shepard died at his home in Kentucky on Thursday, July, 27, from complications of ALS. Shepard’s career spanned both stage and screen, earning him a Pulitzer Prize for his play Buried Child and roles in films such as Black Hawk Down and The Right Stuff. Ahead, a look at his time in Hollywood.
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Sam Shepard (with Brooke Adams) in 1978's Days of Heaven
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Sam Shepard in 1983's The Right Stuff
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Sam Shepard with Jessica Lange in 1984 at the Los Angeles premiere of The Natural
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Sam Shepard (with Diane Keaton) in 1986's Crimes of the Heart
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Sam Shepard in 1988
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Sam Shepherd and Jessica Lange at the Cape Fear premiere in 1991
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Sam Shepard on the set of Homo Faber, 1991
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Musician Lou Reed, Sam Shepard, and German film director Wim Wenders in 1994
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Sam Shepard in 1999's Snow Falling on Cedars
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Sam Shepard photographed in San Francisco, 2000
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Sam Shepard in 2001's Black Hawk Down
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Morgan Freeman, James Garner, and Sam Shepard in 2004
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Sam Shepard at the premiere of The Notebook, 2004
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Sam Shepard at the Cannes Film Festival, 2005
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Sam Shepard at the Cannes Film Festival, 2005
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Sam Shepard at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006
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Harry Dean Stanton and Sam Shepard at the Sundance screening of Paris, Texas, 2006.
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Sam Shepard at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006
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Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange, 2006
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Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange, 2006
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Sam Shepard at the 2007 Venice Film Festival for The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford
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Sam Shepard, 2008
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Sam Shepard (with Patti Smith) in New York City, 2010.
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Sam Shepard photographed in New York, 2011
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Sam Shepard at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
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Sam Shepard at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
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Sam Shepard at opening night for his play Fool For Love's 2015 revival
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