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Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He fooled around with punk poet Patti ...

Shepard’s Academy Award–nominated turn as test pilot Chuck Yeager (in 1983’s The Right Stuff) was the role that ... He gnawed that bone until it broke. Sam Shepard, dead at 73.

Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). Born Samuel Shepard Rogers IV in Fort Sheridan, Illinois ...

It fuels the simmering tensions between brothers Austin and Lee in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s popular ... Chuck Yeager in “The Right Stuff,” which drew him an Oscar ...