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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, 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...
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.
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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.
Feb 11, 2013 · Alan Sharp, novelist and screenwriter of feature films including “Rob Roy,” “ Night Moves ,” “ The Osterman Weekend ,” “Little Treasure” and “Dean Spanley,” died at his daughter’s home in Los...
Apr 17, 2013 · Sharp was unstoppable in those glory years of the New Hollywood, his finest achievement being Night Moves (1975), an intricate thriller starring Gene Hackman as an embittered detective cuckolded...
Feb 13, 2013 · Born in Scotland, after writing a series of novels, Sharp wrote the screenplays for Peter Fonda’s 1971 follow-up to “Easy Rider,” “The Hired Hand,” co-starring Fonda and Warren Oates; Robert...