Barry Newman, ‘Vanishing Point’ Actor, Dead At 92
etcanada.comBarry Newman, best known for starring in the action-thriller “Vanishing Point”, has died. He was 92. Newman’s wife, Angela, confirmed the news of Newman’s death to The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday.
The actor died of natural causes on May 11 at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Newman had a number of smaller screen roles and performed on Broadway until he was cast in the 1971 car chase classic “Vanishing Point”, by director Richard C.
Sarafian. He starred as a former race car driver named Kowalski who drives a Dodge Challenger across the US while avoiding cops and getting entangled in a deadly criminal conspiracy.
The film went on to be a cult classic and genre-defining epic that went on to be revered for its action set-pieces and proved to be influential on the next generation of blockbuster filmmakers.
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