R.I.P.: Sam Bottoms

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 of glioblastoma multiforme, a virulent brain cancer, his wife said.
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