His credits also included The Limey and Fear Is the Key.
He made his Broadway debut as a jazz musician inNature’s Way, and later appeared inMaybe TuesdayandThe Mousetrap.
Newman earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his performance as the maverick lawyer.
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InVanishing Point, Newman memorably played Kowalski, a car transport driver white-knuckling through an existential cross-country trip.
It opened again in America after playing Europe and people then started getting on to the film.
It became a cult film without me even realizing it.
To this day, I’m always being asked to talk about it somewhere."
He stepped back from acting in 2009, after being diagnosed with vocal cord cancer.
