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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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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.
Feb 14, 2013 · 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...
- Paul Vitello
Jun 2, 2023 · Many of our writing group were graduates of Glasgow University’s Creative Writing Masters, and Alan Sharp was a prolific and successful novelist and screenwriter from Scotland’s West Coast.
Alan Sharp is one of Scotland’s most significant writers. The adopted son of a Greenock shipyard worker, he became a best-selling novelist, a leading television playwright and a record-breaking Hollywood screenwriter. Yet today his books, television plays and screenplays are forgotten.
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.
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.
Alan Sharp’s first novel A Green Tree in Gedde, published in 1965, gained rave reviews from a wide range of critics. It also won an Arts Council Prize, beating Archie Hind and William McIlvanney in the shortlist.
