Sam Shepard

‘Black Hawk Down’ Actor Sam Shepard, Dead At 73
‘Black Hawk Down’ Actor Sam Shepard, Dead At 73
‘Black Hawk Down’ Actor Sam Shepard, Dead At 73
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.