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☆ Herbert Coward, Actor Who Played Toothless Man in ‘Deliverance,’ Dies at 85
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | More About Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Coward, who went by the nickname Cowboy, was best known for his role in “Deliverance,” which featured Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Jon Voight. The film is an adaptation of a novel by James Dickey about four Atlanta businessmen on a harrowing canoe trip in rural Georgia. In the movie, two of the businessmen come across two hostile mountain men in the woods, one of them being Toothless Man. The men tie one of the friends to a tree, and then force the other to strip down to his underwear and “squeal like a pig.”As the two men contemplate what to do with the friend tied up to the tree, Mr. Coward’s character delivers the line, “He got a real purty mouth, ain’t he?”The four friends are eventually reunited and escape by killing one of the men with an arrow and chasing off Mr. Coward’s character. The scene is brief, but Mr. Coward’s line became one of the more memorable movie lines of the 1970s and the most remembered of Mr. Coward’s career.

Persons: Coward, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight, James Dickey, Coward’s Organizations: Atlanta businessmen Locations: Georgia

Herbert Coward, known for his "Toothless Man” role in the movie “Deliverance,” died Wednesday in a crash on a western North Carolina highway, according to authorities. The crash happened Wednesday afternoon as Coward and Bertha Brooks, 78, left a doctor’s appointment, North Carolina Highway Patrol Sgt. Coward and Brooks as well as a Chihuahua and pet squirrel were killed, he said. Coward, who lived in Haywood County, was famous locally for having a pet squirrel, he said. Authorities don’t believe speed or distraction were factors in the crash, Owens said.

Persons: Herbert Coward, ”, Coward, Bertha Brooks, M.J, Owens, Brooks, John Boorman’s, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox Organizations: Patrol Locations: North Carolina, Chihuahua, Haywood County, Georgia

☆ When ‘Homicide’ Hit Its Stride
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Saul Austerlitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Dallas Cowboys demolished the Buffalo Bills, 52-17, and the broadcast was followed by the premiere of a new NBC drama, set in Baltimore, studying the work of the city’s homicide detectives. The series was called “Homicide: Life on the Street,” and it was based on a book by David Simon, then a Baltimore Sun reporter who had spent a year tagging along with the police department’s homicide squad. Post-Super Bowl premiere notwithstanding, “Homicide” was never a ratings success, but it stayed on the air for seven seasons, winning four Emmys and three Peabody Awards. The show’s fifth episode, “Three Men and Adena,” which first aired in March, was a stark, dramatic example of what made “Homicide” different from other cop shows. Pembleton and Bayliss prod, provoke and rage, but “Homicide” refuses to grant the audience the resolution they crave.

☆ A murit actorul Ned Beatty, celebru pentru rolurile din „Deliverance”, „Network” și „Superman”
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-14 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: Warner Bros/AllstarA murit actorul Ned Beatty, celebru pentru rolurile din „Deliverance”, „Network” și „Superman”Actorul Ned Beatty, nominalizat la Oscar și celebru pentru rolurile din filme precum „Deliverance”, „Network” și „Superman” a murit la vârsta de 83 de ani. Actorul a murit din cauze naturale, în casa sa din Los Angeles. „Ned a murit din cauze naturale duminică dimineață, înconjurat de familie și de cei dragi", a declarat Deborah Miller, manager la Shelter Entertainment Group, pentru CNN. Ned Beatty s-a făcut cunoscut cu roluri în filme precum: „Deliverance” (1972), „Nashville” (1975), „All the President’s Men” (1976) sau „Network” (1976). Ned Beatty a jucat în peste 150 de filme și seriale de televiziune.

Persons: Allstar, Ned Beatty, Ned, Deborah Miller, CNN . Ned Beatty, . Ned Beatty, Sandra Johnson Organizations: Warner, Shelter Entertainment Group, CNN Locations: Los Angeles, Shelter, Nashville

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