Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard, left, stars with Christian Bale in the 2013 film “Out of the Furnace.”

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.

Sam Shepard and “Cold in July” actress Vinessa Shaw at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014.

Sam Shepard poses for a portrait in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District in 2006.

From left, Sam Shepard, Fairuza Balk and director Wim Wenders attend the premiere of “Don’t Come Knocking” at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Brooke Adams and Sam Shephard in a scene from the 1978 film “Days of Heaven.”

Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange at the premiere of “Cape Fear,” in which she costarred, in New York City in 1991.

Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard on set of the movie “Resurrection” in 1980.

Sam Shepard, left, talks with film director John Huston at Swifty Lazar’s post-Oscar party at Spago in Los Angeles in 1986.

Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard on set of the movie “Resurrection” in 1980.

Musician Lou Reed, from left, playwright and actor Sam Shepard and German film director Wim Wenders in January 1994 in New York City.