What is Timothy Bottoms today?

Bottoms divides his time between his acting work and his other great love of training wild horses at his two ranches near Big Sur, California. On the sly he has worked as a surveyor’s assistant.

What is Joseph Bottoms doing now?

Since 1999, he has been running the Bottoms Art Galleries in Santa Barbara that include his father’s sculptures.

What was Sam Bottoms in?

Bottoms may be best remembered for his role as surfer Lance B. Johnson, a Navy Gunner’s Mate stationed on a river boat in Francis Ford Coppola’s 20th century opus, Apocalypse Now.

Why did the bottoms change their name to Phoenix?

At the time of his birth, Phoenix’s parents were missionaries in a millenarian Christian religious cult called the Children of God. When he was a young child, they returned to the United States, left the cult, and changed the family name from Bottom to Phoenix.