Sam Shepard: US on-screen character and writer bites the dust aged 73

US performing artist and dramatist Sam Shepard has kicked the bucket at 73 years old.

 Sam Shepard wrote more than 40 plays in his career

Shepard composed more than 40 plays and won the Pulitzer Prize for show for Buried Child in 1979.

He went ahead to be named for the best supporting performing artist Oscar for 1983's The Right Stuff and featured in movies like Black Hawk Down and in addition co-composing 1984's Paris, Texas.

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He kicked the bucket at home in Kentucky on Thursday, his family has affirmed.

Shepard's passing came after he encountered intricacies from engine neurone infection, otherwise called Lou Gehrig's Disease, the New York Times revealed.

His initially real acting part was in Terrence Malik's Days of Heaven in 1978, in which he featured close by Richard Gere.

Other film credits incorporate Steel Magnolias, The Pelican Brief and The Accidental Husband.

Shepard leaves three children

All the more as of late, he was viewed as Robert Rayburn in two arrangement of Netflix thriller Bloodline.

Shepard likewise shows up in mental thriller Never Here, which had its debut a month ago.

The father-of-three was named for two different Pulitzers, for Broadway plays Fool for Love and True West.

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