Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard (1943 - 2017)
Playwright
==Film Deaths==
*Days of Heaven (1978) [The Farmer]: Stabbed to death with his own knife in a struggle with Richard Gere, after Sam attacks Richard.
*Raggedy Man (1981) [Bailey]: Fatally injured in a struggle with William Sanderson and Tracey Walter, after he catches them trying to rape Sissy Spacek. 
*The Pelican Brief (1993) [Professor Thomas Callahan]: Killed in an explosion by a car bomb as Julia Roberts watches in shock.
*Hamlet (2000) [Ghost]: Poisoned (off-screen) by Kyle MacLachlan; Sam appears as a ghost to his son (Ethan Hawke) throughout the movie.
*Swordfish (2001) [Senator James Reisman]: Shot in the chest by John Travolta while Sam is fishing in a stream.
*The Notebook (2004) [Frank Calhoun]: Dies (off-screen) of natural causes; we learn of his death in James Garner's narration, followed by a scene of Sam's funeral.
*Stealth (2005) [Captain George Cummings]: Commits suicide when Joe Morton comes to arrest him.
*Killing Them Softly (2012) [Dillon]: Stabbed in the stomach; he dies (off-screen) of his wound some time afterwards. His death is confirmed when Brad Pitt informs Richard Jenkins.
*August: Osage County (2013) [Beverly Weston]: Commits suicide (off-screen) by drowning himself in a lake. His death is confirmed when Will Coffey informs Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor.
*Cold in July (2014) [Ben Russell]: Shot in the stomach with a shotgun by his son (Wyatt Russell), he manages to shoot him twice (first with a shotgun, then a pistol) in return before dying (with Michael C. Hall then burning down the building they're in).
==Television Deaths==
*Klondike: Part 3, Chapter 6 (2014) [Father Judge]: Dies of pneumonia (off-screen); his death is revealed when his gravestone is shown in a cemetery.
==Gallery==
Samshepard1.jpg|Sam Shepard before his off-screen death in Klondike: Part 3, Chapter 6
Sam Shepard in Days of Heaven.jpg|Sam Shepard in Days of Heaven
The.Pelican.Brief.1993 @Ti 04206 @R3282.jpg|Sam Shepard’s death in The Pelican Brief 
==Notable Connections==
*Ex-Mr. O-Lan Jones
*Former partner of Jessica Lange
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