Alan Sharp, novelist and screenwriter of feature films
including "Rob Roy," "Night Moves," "The Osterman
Weekend," "Little Treasure" "Ulzana's Raid" and "The Hired Hand", died
at his daughter's home in Los Angeles on February 8, 2013 after a long illness. He was
79.
Sharp also wrote for television, penning the screenplay
for the miniseries "Ben-Hur," which aired on ABC in 2010, among other
projects.
Sharp was born in 1934 in Alyth, Scotland. He launched his writing career in 1965 with the
publication of the acclaimed novel "A Green Tree in Gedde," which was
initially banned in Scotland for its sexual content and was the first of a
planned trilogy. The second novel "The Wind Shifts" was published in
1968, but Sharp left the third, "Don't Cry, It's Only a Picture
Show," incomplete when he moved to Hollywood to focus on screenwriting.Sharp wrote the screenplay for the 1974 Euro-western "Billy Two Hats" starring Gregory Peck and Desi Arnaz, Jr.
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