Alan Sharp
Author and Screenwriter
The Hired HandThe Hired Hand is a 1971 western film directed by Peter Fonda, with a screenplay by Alan Sharp. The film stars Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom. The cinematography was by Vilmos Zsigmond, and Bruce Langhorne provided the moody film... In this article: The Hired Hand, Peter Fonda, DVD, The Last Movie, Warren Oates, and Universal Studios |
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Wikipedia | October 09, 2009
The Osterman Weekend (film)
...theories and closely paid attention to the CIA's activities throughout the world. After Masters developed the script's groundwork, Alan Sharp was hired to work on characters and dialogue. With the screenplay completed they went looking...
In this article: Sam Peckinpah, William N. Panzer, The Osterman Weekend, Robert Ludlum, and CIA
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Damnation Alley (film)
...was quite pleased with the first script by Lukas Heller and expected it to be the shooting script. However, the studio had Alan Sharp write a completely different version that left out most of the elements of Zelazny's book. Zelazny...
In this article: Damnation Alley, Roger Zelazny, World War III, DVD, 20th Century Fox, George Peppard, Damnation Alley, and Star Wars
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Dean Spanley
...Film Group (UK) and General Film Corporation (NZ), directed by Fijian New Zealander Toa Fraser. The film is based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of Irish author Lord Dunsany 's short novel My Talks with Dean Spanley, and stars Sam Neill as...
In this article: Dean Spanley, Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill, New Zealand, Bryan Brown, Toronto International Film Festival, and Jeremy Northam
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Alan Sharp
Alan Sharp (b. 1934 in Greenock) is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. Sharp's career began in 1965, with the publication of his acclaimed first novel, A Green Tree in Gedde. It was the first part of a proposed trilogy, but Sharp...
In this article: Robert Burns, Hollywood, Beryl Bainbridge, Julia Stiles, Gerard Butler, and Greenock
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The Australian | August 11, 2009
Toa Fraser to write Robert Louis Stevenson film
...version never made it to screen but was published as a novel in the 1960s. More recently, Scottish novelist and screenwriter Alan Sharp, who adapted a short novel by Lord Dunsany into the screenplay for Fraser's latest film Dean Spanley,...
In this article: Toa Fraser, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dylan Thomas, Dean Spanley, University of Hawai'i, Pacific, and Wellington
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Reuters | May 03, 2009
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Steven Shill, helmer of surprise box-office hit "Obsessed," is directing the adaptation of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel from a script by Alan Sharp ("Rob Roy"). Morgan will play the title role, immortalized by Charlton Heston in the 1959...
In this article: Ben Hur, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily VanCamp, Pontius Pilate, Oscar, Lew Wallace, and Miguel Angel Munoz
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | May 02, 2009
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...dog. It takes its own sweet time, but by the end it's become an irresistible, tender tale of bereavement and rebirth, thanks to Alan Sharp's unapologetically literary screenplay and the rich performances from Northam, Neill and a...
In this article: Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam, Dean Spanley, DVD, Dog, and Peter O'Toole
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...an hour and three quarters, but by the end Dean Spanley has become an irresistible, tender tale of bereavement and rebirth, thanks to Alan Sharp's unapologetically literary screenplay and the rich performances from Northam, Neill and a...
In this article: Keanu Reeves, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Brendan Fraser, Jaden Smith, Toa Fraser, Iain Softley, Dean Spanley, Jennifer Connelly, and Sam Neill
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Dean Spanley (15)
...of this mystical metempsychosis. How it links to the death of Fisk's brother Harry in the Boer War is the dramatic crux of Alan Sharp's script (adapted from a novel by Baron Dunsany), and the only drawback to its fey shaggy-dog story is the...
In this article: Sam Neill, Dean Spanley, Jeremy Northam, Dog, Peter O'Toole, Toa Fraser, and Bryan Brown
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Variety.com - Film Festival Reviews | September 09, 2008
Dean Spanley Movie Review From The Toronto Film Festival
...sales: NZ Film, Wellington.) Produced by Metcalfe, Alan Harris. Executive producers, Finola Dwyer, David Parfitt, Simon Fawcett, Alan Sharp. Co-producer, Karl Zohrab. It's a dog's past life in "Dean Spanley," an immaculately cast,...
In this article: Dean Spanley, Toronto Film Festival, Peter O'Toole, Dog, Sam Neill, Don McGlashan, and Judy Parfitt
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Alan Sharp (b. 1934 in Greenock) is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.
Sharp's career began in 1965, with the publication of his acclaimed first novel, A Green Tree in Gedde. It was the first part of a proposed trilogy, but Sharp completed only one more novel, The Wind Shifts (1967), before migrating to Hollywood and becoming a much sought after screenwriter.
Sharp's most productive period was the early and mid-1970s, when five of his screenplays became high-profile Hollywood productions, most of them dealing with quintessentially American themes and characters. At least three are now recognized as classics of the New American Cinema of the 1970s: Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand, Robert Aldrich's Ulzana's Raid and Arthur Penn's Night Moves.
Since the 1980s, Sharp has been mostly writing for American television. His only completed film projects have been Sam Peckinpah's swan song The Osterman Weekend (1982) and Rob Roy (1995). While Rob Roy led to Sharp's rediscovery as a serious and important writer, subsequent film assignments remained elusive.
Two current Sharp projects in production are Burns (previously "Clarinda"), a biography of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns, starring Gerard Butler and Julia Stiles, and Dean Spanley from the novel by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, due in cinemas in 2008.
Sharp is the father of actress Rudi Davies, by writer Beryl Bainbridge.
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