Playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died at age 73.
Sam Shepard, left, stars with Christian Bale in the 2013 film “Out of the Furnace.”
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Sam Shepard arrives for the screening of the movie “The Assasination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford” during the 64th Venice International Film Festival in 2007.
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Sam Shepard and “Cold in July” actress Vinessa Shaw at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014.
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Sam Shepard poses for a portrait in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District in 2006.
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From left, Sam Shepard, Fairuza Balk and director Wim Wenders attend the premiere of “Don’t Come Knocking” at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
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Brooke Adams and Sam Shephard in a scene from the 1978 film “Days of Heaven.”
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Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange at the premiere of “Cape Fear,” in which she costarred, in New York City in 1991.
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Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard on set of the movie “Resurrection” in 1980.
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Sam Shepard, left, talks with film director John Huston at Swifty Lazar’s post-Oscar party at Spago in Los Angeles in 1986.
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Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard on set of the movie “Resurrection” in 1980.
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Musician Lou Reed, from left, playwright and actor Sam Shepard and German film director Wim Wenders in January 1994 in New York City.
