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Alan Sharp (12 January 1934 – 8 February 2013) was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s, and subsequently wrote the screenplays for about twenty films, mostly produced in the United States.
Alan Sharp was born on 12 January 1934 in Alyth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Dean Spanley (2008), Rob Roy (1995) and Night Moves (1975). He was married to Elizabeth Thomas, Sarah (Sally) Travers, Margaret Inglis Donachie and Harriet Sharp.
Feb 14, 2013 · Alan Sharp, a screenwriter whose brand of dark, lyrical and densely plotted work, including the screenplay for Arthur Penn’s “Night Moves,” made him a critically admired if largely unknown figure...
Feb 11, 2013 · Alan Sharp, the Scottish screenwriter who penned the script for the 1995 film Rob Roy, which starred Liam Neeson as the legendary folk hero and outlaw from the Highlands, has died. He was 79....
Alan Sharp was born on January 12, 1934 in Alyth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Dean Spanley (2008), Rob Roy (1995) and Night Moves (1975). He was married to Elizabeth Thomas, Sarah (Sally) Travers, Margaret Inglis Donachie and Harriet Sharp.
Feb 22, 2013 · Alan Sharp's movies reflected the confusion, failures, and darkness of the 1970s—and maybe that's why no one wanted to see them. An aging Apache chief, Ulzana, breaks out of the reservation.
Jun 7, 2019 · Alan Sharp, no stranger to despair, also found his way to the sparkling waters, the fetid swamps, the heavy air of the Florida Keys. It was a pilgrimage for a writer who loved John Huston’s Key Largo (1948) and, adopted at birth, had once imagined Humphrey Bogart as his long-lost father.
Apr 17, 2013 · Alan Sharp, writer: born Alyth, Scotland 12 January 1934; married four times (six children); died Los Angeles 8 February 2013.
Alan Sharp’s first novel A Green Tree in Gedde, published in 1965, gained rave reviews from a wide range of critics. It also won an Arts Council Prize, beating Archie Hind and William McIlvanney in the shortlist.
Alan Sharp. Screenwriter. 12 January 1934 to 8 February 2013. A Scottish born screenwriter with a diverse range of credits, Sharp wrote The Last Run (1971), The Hired Hand (1971), Ulzana’s Raid (1972), Billy Two Hats (1974) and Night Moves (1975).
