Sam Shepard: Hollywood & Broadway Mourn Actor-Writer’s Death
Broadway and Hollywood are in sorrow today as one of their greats, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor Sam Shepard died today at his home in Kentucky.
Garret Dillahunt worked with Shepard on the Andrew Dominik western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford:
Shepard and Don Cheadle starred together in the 2001 John Travolta-Halle Berry thriller Swordfish:
Literally bumped into Sam Shepard many years ago, both of us on our way to see Pillow Man on Broadway. We had a great chat/walk. #hero RIP
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) July 31, 2017
Producer Mike Medavoy, former United Artists production chief and TriStar Pictures chairman tweeted out, “I just lost two friends today,it’s a vey sad day. Jeanne Moreau my friend an ex client and Sam Shepherd who was a long time friend,UADays”
Shepard starred in the feature take on Nicholas Sparks‘ novel The Notebook:
We've lost an icon.
R.I.P. Sam Shepard#TheNotebook pic.twitter.com/IHkEKdjmTk— Nicholas Sparks (@NicholasSparks) July 31, 2017
The Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley played the son to Sam Shepard’s patriarch in the 2001 TV movie Shot in the Heart
I had the honor of playing Sam Shepard's son in one of my first films. He was a class act whose work profoundly influenced me & the world.
— Paul Wesley (@paulwesley) July 31, 2017
Lynn Goldsmith saw very early what we all saw later. Sam Shepard. Too soon gone. pic.twitter.com/i9fcfPUDSO
— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) July 31, 2017
#SamShephard one of the great playwrights of our time! Came to my 1st play Mambo Mouth
made me feel like I was made! pic.twitter.com/1JkvFqaDRe
— John Leguizamo (@JohnLeguizamo) July 31, 2017
Sam Shepard. Whenever he came on-screen, you knew you were in good hands. A frame from "Days of Heaven." May he rest in love. pic.twitter.com/DQc0fy7EqN
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 31, 2017
Jeanne Moreau, Sam Shepard thank you for enlighten us at 24 frames per second. RIP pic.twitter.com/fPi6HTLnzp
— Antonio Banderas (@antoniobanderas) July 31, 2017
A great man of the theater has passed. Thank you, Sam Shepard. RIP.
— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) July 31, 2017
Sam Shepard is one of the greats. These eyes saw so much, and he wrote of what he saw with fearless, timeless honesty. RIP maestro. pic.twitter.com/pIY4FWxXtZ
— Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) July 31, 2017
And now Sam Shepard pic.twitter.com/vF85U6hNWM
— Larry Karaszewski (@Karaszewski) July 31, 2017
First became a Sam Shepard fan as a playwright when I was in Buried Child @BU_SOT Tremendously talented actor as well. Gone too soon. RIP
— Michael Chiklis (@MichaelChiklis) July 31, 2017
"When you hit a wall — of your own imagined limitations — just kick it in." Sam Shepard was a brilliant artist who gave us all so much. #RIP pic.twitter.com/4REeI4pUjw
— Tribeca (@Tribeca) July 31, 2017
There's a restaurant in the East Village we refer to as the Sam Shepard restaurant because we saw him there once. This will continue.
— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) July 31, 2017
#SamShepard 's Lie of the Mind changed my life. An American hero of the arts, he is irreplaceable. #RIPSamShepard
— Jennifer Beals (@jenniferbeals) July 31, 2017
This is how I will always remember #SamShepard. pic.twitter.com/kKd9oiRYqI
— Jennifer Tilly (@JenniferTilly) July 31, 2017
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