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It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

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Sam Shepard
Age: 73 †
Born: 1943
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: July 27
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Fort Sheridan
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Samuel Shepard Rogers III
Samuel Sam Shepard Rogers III
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