Sam Bottoms

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Timothy Bottoms, the brother of actors Joseph and Sam Bottoms, was born in Santa Barbara, Calif., on this date in 1951. This birthday guy is probably best recognized for starring in the acclaimed films "Johnny Got His...

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...Show," playing a mute and mentally handicapped boy forced by friends to lose his virginity to a prostitute. Sam Bottoms said he was in Texas to visit his brother, who was the film's lead, when director Peter Bogdanovich saw him and cast...

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Dec. 18) - Sam Bottoms, the actor best known for playing a patrol-boat gunner in 'Apocalypse Now' and who has appeared in some 30 other films including 'The Last Picture Show' with his brother Timothy, lost his battle with cancer this...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Sam Bottoms: played the acid-dropping surfer in Apocalypse Now In the autumn of 1970 15-year-old Sam Bottoms travelled from his home in California to the little Texan town of Archer...

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Bottoms' brothers - Timothy, Joseph and Ben - also became actors US actor Sam Bottoms, best known for his role as surfer-turned-soldier Lance B Johnson in Apocalypse Now, has died of brain cancer at the age of 53. The third of four...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Sam Bottoms, 53, soldier in 'Apocalypse Now' Sam Bottoms, with Laurence Fishburne (left), accompanied the main protagonist Martin Sheen on his mission in ''Apocalypse Now.'' (American...

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AP - In this May 11, 2001 file photo, director Francis Ford Coppola, left, and actor Sam Bottoms appear … LOS ANGELES - Sam Bottoms, who had small but memorable roles in the 1970s classics "Apocalypse Now" and "The Last Picture Show," has...

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...The Last Picture Show, playing a mute and mentally disabled boy forced by friends to lose his virginity to a prostitute. Sam Bottoms said he was in Texas to visit his brother, who was the film's lead, when director Peter Bogdanovich saw...

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American TV/film actor SAM BOTTOMS has died of a brain tumour, aged 53. He passed away on Tuesday (16Dec08) at his home in Los Angeles, California. Bottoms, with his older brothers Timothy and Joseph, and younger brother, Ben, made...

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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. Bottoms died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles...

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