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Patton, a Gen. I would have done anything he asked. Coppola told The Times on Wednesday that in casting young actors to play soldiers in the movie, he had been impressed with Bottoms during improvisational sessions. We all admired them. He was quiet and undemanding and always anxious to help and had a nice smile. Bottoms was born in Santa Barbara on Oct.

A private funeral will be held today, and a memorial service will be held sometime early next year. Sylvere Lotringer, intellectual who infused U.

Bobbie Kirkhart, the matriarch of atheism in L. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Sam's debut film role as Billy, speech impaired and with learning difficulties, who spends his time uselessly sweeping the dusty streets, is touching without being sentimental. His eloquent, wordless performance reaches perfection when the louts of the town set the "idiot kid" up with a local prostitute in the back of a car. Bottoms then appeared as one of the Class of '44 , the disappointing sequel to Summer of '42, made two years earlier, and rancher Gene Hackman's father-dominated younger brother in Zandy's Bride He has some splendid scenes as a wounded soldier whose life Clint Eastwood tries to save in The Outlaw Josey Wales , generating the blend of innocence and strength so effective in Apocalypse Now.

The year and a half spent in the Philippines jungle on the war movie was mentally and physically gruelling for everyone involved. I was picking stuff out of my skin for months and months afterwards, even though I was wearing flak jackets. It was pretty intense. I believe that whatever it takes for an actor to get to a scene, that's his business. And I don't think that's something to be shared with the public.

During the shooting he met his future wife, Susan Arnold, who was apprentice editor on the film, and moved to San Francisco to be with her and the film's postproduction.

Offers came in, though nothing to compare with Apocalypse Now. I was getting great opportunities. But I wasn't able to execute them because I think emotionally my head wasn't in the right place.

I was terrified of celebrity. I was still really young, and I didn't have good guidance or management by someone who could see the long term. Nevertheless, he continued to work, though some of his choices were less than judicious. For example, he starred in a low-budget Roger Corman-produced Jaws rip-off called Up from the Depths , mainly because he wanted to go back to the Philippines "as part of my Apocalypse healing period".

But there was little excuse for some of the many cheap horror films and straight-to-video stuff that followed over the years. He was also reunited with Coppola as a sensitive young recruit in Gardens of Stone , a mellow study of the effects of the Vietnam conflict on the soldiers at a military base near Washington.

On television, he appeared in the mini-series East of Eden as Cal Trask the role taken by James Dean in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel with his brother Timothy, in ageing makeup, playing his father, and in Island Sons with all three of his brothers.