The Force Awakens" made him a huge movie star. Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is author of several books of short ...

US actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died at the age of 73. Shepard wrote more than 40 plays and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1979. He went on to be nominated for the ...