Alan Sharp papers

Screenplays, inc shooting scripts, handwritten drafts by Sharp and print outs. Partial manuscripts of unpublished novels. Notebooks containing journal entries and ideas and notes. Personal letters between Sharp, his family and friends, and professional correspondence

Born in Alyth, Sharp was adopted and raised in Greenock. Leaving school at 14 Sharp did a variety of jobs before moving to London with the intention of writing.
In 1965, his screenplay 'A Knight in Tarnished Armour' was broadcast by the BBC. He also published his first novel 'A Green Tree in Gedde', which won the Scottish Arts Council Award in 1967, the same year he published 'The Wind Shifts'.
Sharp emigrated to the USA where he found critical and popular success writing film screenplays, also moving into television in the 1980s and 1990s. His feature film projects included The Osterman Weekend (1982), Rob Roy (1995) and Dean Spanley (2008).
Sharp married four times and had a total of six children
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sharp

Usually chronological within series, although new accessions have simply been added to each series

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Born in Alyth, Sharp was adopted and raised in Greenock. Leaving school at 14 Sharp did a variety of jobs before moving to London with the intention of writing.
In 1965, his screenplay 'A Knight in Tarnished Armour' was broadcast by the BBC. He also published his first novel 'A Green Tree in Gedde', which won the Scottish Arts Council Award in 1967, the same year he published 'The Wind Shifts'.
Sharp emigrated to the USA where he found critical and popular success writing film screenplays, also moving into television in the 1980s and 1990s. His feature film projects included The Osterman Weekend (1982), Rob Roy (1995) and Dean Spanley (2008).
Sharp married four times and had a total of six children
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sharp

Description compiled by Joana Cifre, volunteer and J Merchant, Snr Archivist

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Nothing disposed of

Records held in Britain, USA and New Zealand. At the request of Brian Cox, actor and friend, Harriet Sharp gathered her husband's papers together after Sharp's death. However, Harriet herself died before she could collect the papers in New Zealand

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MS 454