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 ...

The actor died of complications from ALS -- a disease he battled privately in his final years Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. Chris Boneau, a spokesperson for Shepard's family, tells CNN he died ...

Playwright/actor Sam Shepard died Thursday at the age of 73. Actor Ed Harris worked with him on many different project on the stage and screen; he... Actor Ed Harris Says Sam Shepard Was 'Iconically ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard has died from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a representative ...

I was very flattered when Sam Shepard asked a friend could he be introduced to me on Wexford Street one night some years back. He was tall, handsome, taciturn, cowboy-esque and he was impressed by my ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested Monday on suspicion of drunken driving after a Santa Fe restaurant’s security complained about a possibly ...

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BLOOMINGTON -- An attorney for playwright and actor Sam Shepard reported to a McLean County judge Thursday that the celebrity has completed the community service requirements of his sentence for ...