Barry Newman

Barry Newman
Born	Barry Foster Newman November 7, 1938 (1938-11-07) (age 71) Boston, Massachusetts
Years active	1960 - present

Early Years

Barry Foster Newman is an American actor, the son of an Austrian father and a Swedish mother. Newman was born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 7, 1938 and he attended Boston Latin School and Brandeis University, where he took a degree in cultural anthropology. After graduation he decided to become an actor after wandering by chance into a class conducted by Actors Studio mentor Lee Strasberg.

The Actor

He started his acting career on stage and in New York TV, with his most notable role in the daytime drama Edge of Night. His first film was the gangster potboiler Pretty Boy Floyd (1960) but he waited years before achieving his breakthrough role in the 1970 movie The Lawyer. This was followed by his most famous role as the character "Kowalski" in the 1971 cult classic film Vanishing Point in which he plays a pill-popping outlaw/hero driving a white 1970 Dodge Challenger. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a household name, starring in adventure films like Fear Is the Key (1972), The Salzburg Connection 1972, Night Games in 1974 and City on Fire (1979). More recently he has appeared in Amy (1981), Daylight (1996), Bowfinger (1999), The Limey (1999), and 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002), What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004), Grilled (2006). He is also known for his television character Anthony Petrocelli on the crime-drama Petrocelli for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy award.

Filmography

• Pretty Boy Floyd (1960)
• The Moving Finger (1963)
• The Lawyer (1970)
• Vanishing Point (1971)
• Fear Is the Key (film) (1972)
• The Salzburg Connection (1972)
• Night Games (1974)
• Sex and the Married Woman (1977)
• City on Fire (1979)
• King Crab (1980)
• Amy (1981)
• Deadline (1982)
• Fantasies (1982)
• Having It All (1982)
• Second Sight: A Love Story (1984)
• My Two Loves (1986)
• The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)
• Daylight (1996)
• Brown's Requiem (1998)
• Goodbye Lover (1998)
• The Limey (1999)
• Bowfinger (1999)
• Fugitive Mind (1999)
• G-Men From Hell (2000)
• Jack the Dog (2001)
• Good Advice (2001)
• 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
• Manhood (2003)
• What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004)
• Grilled (2006)

Television Work

• The Edge of Night (1956) (Cast Member 1964-1965)
• Way Out (1961)
• Armstrong Circle Theatre (1963)
• Get Smart (1965)
• Petrocelli (1974)
• Dinah! (1975) (Cast Member 1975-1977)
• Quincy M.E. (1976)
• The Peter Marshall Variety Show (1976)
• The Fall Guy (1981)
• Nightingales (1989)
• The OC (2005)

External links

• Barry Newman at the Internet Movie Database