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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.
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- 12 January 1934, Alyth, Scotland
- Novelist, screenwriter
- 8 February 2013 (aged 79), Los Angeles, California, 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.
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- Alyth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Alan Sharp, who has died of brain cancer aged 79, once claimed that as a screenwriter he was most interested in "moral ambiguity, mixed motives and irony", all of which are applicable to two of...
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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...
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.
- January 12, 1934
- February 8, 2013
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.
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....
