‘Vanishing Point San Francisco’ actor Barry Newman has died

“Vanishing Point San Francisco”
Actor Barry Newman is dead

06/05/2023, 8:25 p.m

Barry Newman’s Hollywood career peaked in the 1970s: as the main actor in “Vanishing Point San Francisco” he took part in a real cult film. Now the death of the US actor is known.

The American actor Barry Newman is dead. His wife Angela confirmed to the industry magazine “The Hollywood Reporter” that the film and series star died of natural causes in a New York hospital on May 11. Newman was 92 years old.

Newman is best known as the former racing driver Kowalski in the film “Vanishing Point” (originally “Vanishing Point”). In the classic from 1971, Newman is supposed to race from Denver to San Francisco in a very short time in his Dodge Challenger R/T. According to the report, filming lasted just eight weeks and Vanishing Point San Francisco is said to be one of director legend Steven Spielberg’s favorite films.

“Vanishing Point San Francisco” didn’t attract much attention when it was released in the US, but it did in the UK. When the film was shown in London at the Leicester Square Theater, “people were lining up to see it,” Newman said in a 2019 interview. “In England I was a hero and in America I was just a guy who was his picked up luggage at the airport.” After the success in Europe, the film was shown again in American cinemas. “People then started to get interested in the film. It became a cult film without me even realizing it,” says Newman.

In addition, Newman, who was born in Boston, embodied the lawyer Anthony Petrocelli in the series of the same name “Petrocelli” in the 1970s. Numerous other roles followed, including appearances in series such as “Quincy”, “Just in Case” and “Murder Is Her Hobby”. More recently, Newman has appeared in films such as Daylight (1996), starring Sylvester Stallone, Bowfinger (1999), Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey (1999) and 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002). .