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Sam Bottoms, who had small but memorable roles in the 1970s classics “Apocalypse Now” and “The Last Picture Show,” has died. Bottoms, one of four actor brothers, died Tuesday of brain cancer at...
Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who played the role of California surfer-turned-GI Lance Johnson in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic “Apocalypse Now,” has died. He was 53....
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Dec 18, 2008 · Sam Bottoms, who had small but memorable roles in Apocalypse Now and The Last Picture Show, has died. He was 53. Bottoms, one of four actor-brothers, died Tuesday of brain cancer at his home in...
Dec 18, 2008 · Dec. 18, 2008. Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who was the third in a family of four acting brothers, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 53. The cause was a brain...
Career. When Bottoms was 16 years old, he was on the set of The Last Picture Show, in which his older brother Timothy starred, when the director Peter Bogdanovich decided to give him a screen test. He ended up in the movie as the character of Billy, who has no spoken lines but plays a pivotal role in the drama.
Dec 18, 2008 · Sam Bottoms, who started his acting career as a teenager in “The Last Picture Show” and played surfer Lance Johnson in “Apocalypse Now,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles of brain cancer. He was 53....
Dec 19, 2008 · Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who played the role of California surfer-turned-soldier Lance Johnson in Francis Ford Coppola 's 1979 Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now," has died. He...