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Dec 18, 2008 · 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....
Dec 18, 2008 · 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...
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...
Mini Bio. Sam Bottoms was born on October 17, 1955 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979) and Seabiscuit (2003). He was married to Laura Bickford and Susan Arnold. He died on December 16, 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Apr 7, 2009 · Sam Bottoms. One of four brothers who became actors, he reached his peak at 20 with Apocalypse Now. Ronald Bergan. Tue 7 Apr 2009 19.01 EDT. In 1979, when Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War...
Dec 18, 2008 · By Associated Press. 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...
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Sam Bottoms, the actor best know for his role as Lance the Surfer in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now , died on December 16 at his home in Los Angeles. The 53-year-old who got his start in movies at age 15 playing Billy, the slow-witted boy in the great 1971 film The Last Picture Show , suffered from brain cancer.
