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Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, IL, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base around the US until finally settling in Duarte, CA. While at high school he began acting and writing and worked as a ranch hand in Chino. He graduated high school in 1961 and then spent a year studying agriculture at Mount San Antonio Junior College, intending to become a vet.
In 1962, though, a touring theater company, the Bishop's Company Repertory Players, visited the town and he joined up and left home to tour with them. He spent nearly two years with the company and eventually settled in New York where he began writing plays, first performing with an obscure off-off-Broadway group but eventually gaining recognition for his writing and winning prestigious OBIE awards (Off-Broadway) three years running. He flirted with the world of rock, playing drums for the Holy Modal Rounders, then moved to London in 1971, where he continued writing.
Back in the US by 1974, he became playwright in residence at San Francisco's Magic Theater and continued to work as an increasingly well respected playwright throughout the 1970s and into the '80s. Throughout this time he had been dabbling with Hollywood, having most notably in the early days worked as one of the writers on Zabriskie Point (1970), but it was his role as Chuck Yeager in 1983's The Right Stuff (1983) (co-starring Fred Ward and Dennis Quaid) that brought him to the attention of the wider, non-theater audience. Since then he has continued to write, act and direct, both on screen and in the theater.
He died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis--commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease--in Kentucky on July 27, 2017.- Producer
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Polly Platt was born on 29 January 1939 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA. She was a producer and production designer, known for Say Anything (1989), Terms of Endearment (1983) and Broadcast News (1987). She was married to Tony Wade, Peter Bogdanovich and Phillip Klein. She died on 27 July 2011 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.- American actor who starred in silent Westerns under one name, then moved into character roles and bit parts under another. Born Floyd Taliaferro Alderson in Sheridan, Wyoming, and raised on a ranch in Rosebud County, Montana, he became an expert horseman. He served in World War I, then traveled to California. After getting work as a wrangler for Universal Pictures, he entered films as an extra in 1915. By the 1920s he was starring in silent Westerns under the stage name Wally Wales. His career declined, and in the mid-1930s, he changed to a new stage name, Hal Taliaferro, and worked in supporting roles and even bit parts for the rest of his career, primarily in Westerns. In the 1950s, he retired to his family's property in Montana (then and now known as the Bones Brothers Ranch). He devoted himself to landscape painting until a series of strokes debilitated him. He died in a nursing home in his birthplace, Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1980. His papers are archived at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
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At the time of his death-- killed by gunfire while covering the Six Day War in the Middle East in 1967-- Ted Yates was among the most honored and respected of television's news documentary filmmakers. He was known as a tenacious reporter and producer who had produced seminal documentary films for NBC in the 1960s. He was a pioneer in television documentary, with an intimate understanding of the medium's visual power. During a tribute broadcast following his death, his colleagues described him as "not a daredevil but a dedicated professional."- Charlotte Merriam born in Illinois in 1903. Her father was a Colonel in the Army. She began her film career in 1919 when she was 16 in The Flip of a Coin (1919). While visiting the Universal studios she was offered a part in a comedy series starring Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran, which she accepted. Afterwards, she starred in many short and feature comedies, also with the Vitagraph Film Company in 1924, and starred in adventure and drama films, including the role of Mary Trail in Captain Blood (1924). Later she worked for the Warner Brothers studios from 1929; she also appeared in many talkies until her last, Dancing Man (1934). She was also a accomplished singer. Married to actor Rex Lease in 1925; divorced in 1929. Died in Los Angeles in 1972, age of 69.
- Malcolm Hutton was born on 17 November 1928 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor, known for Reg'lar Fellers (1941). He died on 14 December 2014 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA.
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- Editorial Department
Jon Johnson was born on 16 October 1954 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. He is known for U-571 (2000), Star Trek: Generations (1994) and Independence Day (1996).- Harry Evans was born on 5 December 1891 in Sheridan, Nebraska. He was an actor, known for Public Defender (1954). He died on 4 March 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actress
- Art Director
- Production Designer
Bonnie Silco (Lawrence) was born in Sheridan, Wyoming March 31, 1967. One of only two children born to Patricia and Edward Lawrence. At an early age her family moved to Greybull, Wyoming where she spent most of her early years as a shy child. However that all changed in high school when she joined speech and debate. Bonnie met Bradly Marlow during one of the speech meets in 1982 and they later married in 1987. After the loss of their infant son, Johnathan, the marriage fell apart and they divorced in 1989. Bonnie met Eric Silco in 1990. They had a son Christian Scott Jaccar Silco born June of 1991. They moved to Littleton, Colorado in 1992. In August of 1994 they welcomed a daughter, Gabrielle Nicole Jaccar Silco. Dissatisfied with the marriage Bonnie and Eric separated in 1995 and later divorced. It's during this time period that Bonnie started finding small roles in film. She arrived in Los Angeles August 25, 1995 and was working on the film "Independance Day" two days later. She worked on various films for the next several years as an actor and later getting behind the scenes into production design and art direction. In 1999 Bonnie met Doug Smith and they married June of 2003. Doug encouraged her to return to school and she received her Associate of Arts degree in Anthropology from Santa Monica College in 2007, and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009. While at UCLA, Smith worked with Dr. Thomas Wake in the Zooarchaeology lab researching the ancient diet of people living off the Panamanian coast, and also with Dr. David A. Scott in the Cotsen School of Archaeology conservation lab studying ancient metallurgy. Ultimately she left California in 2009 to return to the mountains of the West. She is now the Curatorial Assistant for the Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. She began working for the Center in May of 2010 and transitioned to the Draper in 2011 to serve as the Draper Museum program coordinator. She assists with the Draper's natural science exhibits, collections, and research. She also coordinates the Draper Museum educational programming and outreach. Programs such as the Lunchtime Expedition Lecture Series, Draper After Dark, Science Kids Cody, and other educational outreach programming. She is a member of the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologist, president of the Absaroka Chapter of the Wyoming Archaeology Society, organizing member of the Cody Culture Club, and P.E.A.K.S.; she sits on the board of the Park County Historic Preservation Commission and just stepped down as president of the Wyoming Archaeology Foundation. She has volunteered with HistoriCorp, on several projects in both Colorado and Wyoming. A Wyoming native, she has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Central America and has lived in Nevada, Colorado, and California.
Statement of Professional Interest:
Her research focuses primarily on the early inhabitants of the Bighorn Basin and their worldview. By researching the stories and oral histories of the first people to migrate through this area, looking at the archaeological evidence, identifying correlations of human modified features on the landscape, and golden eagle nesting behavior her hope is to verify that specific locations were chosen for these sacred activities. To create a richer and more thoughtful story of the first people to call the Bighorn Basin and Wyoming home.
Publications and further reading:
Latex Peels of Petroglyphs at Legend Rock and Torrey Lake, Wyoming, Dr. Lawrence Loendorf and Bonnie Lawrence-Smith. Wyoming Archaeologist. 59(2): 44-51. Fall 2015
French, Brett "Wyoming Researcher explores thunderbird art link to golden eagles." Billings Gazette [Billings] and Casper Star Tribune [Casper] 16 March 2017: Outdoor Section.
Dayton, Kelsey 2017 April 7 "Are thunderbird petroglyphs linked to golden eagle nests?" [WyoFile]
Eagle, Message To 2017 April 26 "Are Thunderbird Petroglyphs In Bighorn Basin Linked To Golden Eagle Nests?"- Costume Designer
- Additional Crew
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Annie Backenstose was born on 14 December 1984 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. She is a costume designer, known for Wolf at the Door (2010), Loiter Squad (2012) and Girl Meets Cowboy (2007).- Roy Best was born on 2 March 1900 in Sheridan Lake, Colorado, USA. He died on 27 May 1954 in Canon City, Colorado, USA.
- John L. McClellan was born on 25 February 1896 in Sheridan, Arkansas, USA. He died on 28 November 1977 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
- Clifford C. Furnas was born on 24 October 1900 in Sheridan, Indiana, USA. He died on 27 April 1969 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Donald Horsley was born on 13 April 1954 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. He was married to Louise Horsley. He died on 28 March 2022 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA.
- American novelist and biographer Mari Sandoz was born in Sheridan County, NE, in 1901, the eldest of six children of Swiss immigrants (she once noted that she grew up speaking German and hearing French, Polish and Czech, due to the number of Europeans who settled the Nebraska frontier; she didn't learn to speak English until she started school, at nine years of age). After graduating she took the exams to become a rural teacher, and taught school for five years. Afterwards she attended the University of Nebraska for 3-1/2 years but did not graduate.
She began writing at an early age and had several stories published in the "Omaha Daily News". In 1937 she was offered a position at the Nebraska Historical Society as assistant editor of their publication, "Nebraska History". She had written a biography of her father, "Old Jules", which had been rejected by many publishers. Frustrated, she decided to give up writing. After she got the position at the historical society, however, she decided to give it another try. She re-submitted the manuscript to several publishers. It was eventually accepted (after 13 more rejections) and published in 1935. It won the "Atlantic" Magazine prize for non-fiction.
She continued to write, and her most famous book would be "Cheyenne Autumn", which came out in 1951; it was made into a very popular film, Cheyenne Autumn (1964), directed by 'John Ford (I)'.
Mari Sandoz died in New York City in 1966. - Additional Crew
Jerry Andrus was born on 28 January 1918 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. He is known for Rudy Coby: Ridiculously Dangerous (1996), Andrus: The Man, the Mind & the Magic (2008) and The Best of Magic (1989). He died on 26 August 2007 in Albany, Oregon, USA.- George Kunz was born on 5 July 1947 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA.
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Don Coleman was born on 14 January 1893 in Sheridan, Wyoming, USA. He was an actor, known for The Black Ace (1928), The Boss of Rustler's Roost (1928) and The Bronc Stomper (1928). He was married to Patricia . He died on 16 December 1985 in Willits, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
Brendan David Butler was born on 9 September 1978 in Sheridan, Montana, USA. He is known for The Straight Story (1999) and Deadly Little Secrets (2002).- Actor
- Additional Crew
Tyler James grew up in the front range of Colorado. He first found his passion for acting when he landed a part in the independent feature film "Sign of the Times". Since then, he has taken part in a number of short films and web series. He made his national television debut in Longmire, episode 503. Tyler is known for his ability to play the unsung hero. He brings a gentle, yet powerful performance in all the roles that he plays.