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    Barry Newman, ‘Vanishing Point’ speedster and ‘Petrocelli’ star, dies at 92

    by Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times Jun 05, 2023 2 minutes
    Barry Newman with his wife at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Story of Us" in October 1999.

    Barry Newman was a rogue speedster with a knack of drifting through winding hills and running cops off the road in the 1971 film “Vanishing Point.” Off-screen, Newman was nothing like his thrill-seeking ex-police officer Kowalski.

    “It amuses me now to think that he was famous for these insane driving movies,” his niece Judith Newman said on Facebook. “In real life he was a very cautious driver.”

    Barry Newman,

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