Barry Newman, the Emmy-nominated actor who starred in the 1971 cult action thriller “Vanishing Point” and as the eponymous lawyer in the NBC series “Petrocelli,” died on May 11.
He was 92.
No further details are currently available on his death.In “Vanishing Point,” Newman played former race car driver Kowalski, a speedster that darts around in a Dodge Challenger after becoming entangled in a criminal conspiracy.
The film is regarded as one of the defining American action films of the ’70s by genre enthusiasts.Two decades and change later, Newman would play a heavy in Steven Soderbergh’s fractured crime yarn “The Limey,” which featured a second act car chase involving the actor getting back behind the wheel.Newman was born in Boston on Nov.
7, 1938, where he would attend Boston Latin School and go on to attend Brandeis University.
During his education, Newman met Lee Strasberg and became inspired to pursue acting.
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