By Lucy Carless

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Sam Shepard

• By Lucy Carless

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Meet Sam Shepard

• Famous American playwright and actor.
• Born November the 5th, 1943.
• Still around today.
• Maker of famous and award-winning films and plays.

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Playwright

• Sam Shepards plays are performed on and off
  Broadway and in all the major American theatres.
  They are also performed and studied all over
  Europe, especially in Britain, France and
  Germany. Some of the plays he has written are
• Cowboys-1964
• Award winning Buried Child-1979
• The Rock Garden-1964
• True West-1980
• And many more.

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Actor

• Sam Shepard has been in many films and plays such
  as
• Run for Her Life (2009)Director Baltasar
  KormákurCast Diane Kruger, Dermot Mulroney,
  Rosanna Arquette, Sam Shepard, Vincent Perez,
  Jordi Molla 
• Felon (2008)  Director Ric Roman WaughCast
  Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Marisol
  Nichols, Harold Perrineau, Anne Archer
• All round hes been in forty eight films and a
  few plays !

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Screenwriter

• Sam Shepard has been a screenwriter of films
  such as
• Dont Come Knocking-2005
• Far North-1994
• Fool for Love-1988
• Paris, Texas-1985
• Tongues-1984
• And plenty more

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Writer

• Sam Shepard has also written books
• Great Dream of heaven-2002
• Crushing Paradise-1997
• Hawk Moon-1973
• Motel Chronicles- 1982
• and, Rolling Thunder Logbook-1977

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Thank you for watching

• I hope you now know lots more about Sam Shepard!