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 ...

Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who was the third in a family of four acting brothers, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 53. The cause was a brain tumor, his sister-in-law ...

In 1979, when Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now opened, the director, crew and cast were acclaimed. Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper consolidated their ...

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 brain cancer. He was 53. He was ...