Posted on 07/31/2017 9:07:01 AM PDT by servo1969
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has died. He was 73.
A family spokesperson said Monday that Shepard died Thursday at his home in Kentucky from complications related to Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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I last saw him in the first season of Bloodline (Netflix) several years ago. Like him in the film Blackthorne (2011).
I last saw him in the first season of Bloodline (Netflix) several years ago. Like him in the film Blackthorne (2011).
Definitely has a southern genre thing going for it too. Sort of a Faulkner/Grissom love child.
He played Chuck Yeager, not Alan Shepard
Forgotten that film, it was good. Different.
[He was Chuck Yeager in, “The Right Stuff,” and BG Garrison in, “Blackhawk Down.” Great actor.
I had a cousin die of ALS and it is heartbreaking ]
Hopefully there is plenty of “Beemans” where he is going.
RIP
And half the posts on this thread are correcting me. You can be sure I will never make THIS mistake again. Ha ha.
Right. My first impression was that it was like a cross between “Stand By Me” and “No Country for Old Men.”
ALS is a horrible disease! RIP Mr. Shephard
yes it is- got a friend with it- terrible terrible disease
Understandable; it’s a bit confusing.
Chuck Yeager was portrayed by Sam Shepard.
Alan Shepard was portrayed by Scott Glenn.
John Glenn was portrayed by Ed Harris.
There was no astronaut named Harris.
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