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RIP Barry Newman

#1 Post by Vandal » Sun Jun 04, 2023 10:53 am

Barry Newman, Star of ‘The Vanishing Point’ and ‘Petrocelli,’ Dies at 92

Barry Newman, who propelled a supercharged Dodge Challenger across the American West in The Vanishing Point and portrayed a defense attorney on the NBC series Petrocelli, has died. He was 92.

Newman died May 11 at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center, his wife, Angela, told The Hollywood Reporter.

After appearing on Broadway and starring in The Lawyer (1970), the Boston-born actor was up for a change of pace when he was offered the role of a man tasked with transporting a car from Denver to San Francisco in the action-packed Fox film The Vanishing Point (1971), directed by Richard C. Sarafian.

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Re: RIP Barry Newman

#2 Post by silverscreenselect » Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:18 am

Vanishing Point is one of the all-time great B-movies and shows what you could do with actual cars and drivers instead of CGI technology. The Lawyer is also a good Perry Mason-style legal thriller based on the Sam Sheppard case. Newman would go on to play the same character in a TV series, Petrocelli, that ran for two seasons in the mid-70s.
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