Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Barry Foster Newman is an American film, television, and stage actor, famous for his interpretation of Kowalski in the movie Vanishing Point. He has been nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Newman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
2023
as Himself
Canadian-born filmmaker Sidney J. Furie made his name with British hits like The Young Ones (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), and The Ipcress File (196...

Finding Hannah
2023
as Isaac Dorfman
On December 13th 1942, 3000 Jewish men, women and children deported from France were gassed on arrival in Auschwitz. Among them reportedly was a 14 ye...

For the Love of Spock
2016
as Self
The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty years, written and directed by his son: Adam.

Raise Your Kids on Seltzer
2015
as Bill Tannery
A husband-and-wife pair of retired cult deprogrammers experience marital strife when their past catches up with them.

Grilled
2006
as Boris
Maurice and Dave sell high-end cuts of beef, but after hitting a patch of no sales, they're facing being fired. Maurice needs money to enroll in his f...

What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole
2006
as Frank
Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link...

What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
2004
as Frank
Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways ...

Manhood
2003
as Simon
Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relationships that can define - or destroy - a family. ...

40 Days and 40 Nights
2002
as Walter Sullivan
Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that...

True Blue
2001
as Monty
Rembrandt Macy is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and...

Good Advice
2001
as Donald Simpson
An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's important in life.

Jack the Dog
2001
as Simon
Jack is a dog. When he's not photographing women, as a profession, he's seducing them. Until now. Home from Paris, he feels empty and fed up with his ...

G-Men from Hell
2000
as Greydon Lake
Two G-Men, returning from hell, must perform good deeds to save themselves from a doomed fate.

The Limey
1999
as Jim Avery
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling...

Bowfinger
1999
as Hal, Kit's Agent
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie....

Goodbye Lover
1999
as Sen. Lassetter
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Brown's Requiem
1998
as Jack Skolnick
Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detectiv...

Daylight
1996
as Norman Bassett
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosi...

MacShayne: Winner Takes All
1994
as Andy Capasso
MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his...

Der blaue Diamant
1993
as Dr. Axel Trank
A legendary blue diamond draws five friends on an arduous expedition to the jungles of Thailand. Things go wrong after a murder, with one friend going...

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1992
as Jason Rudd
A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss ...

Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

My Two Loves
1986
as Ben
A widow emerges from her mourning after a year. She moves into a new apartment, gets a new job, and a gains a 'gentleman caller,' her late husband's p...

Second Sight: A Love Story
1984
as Richard Chapman
Alexandra McKay is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so ...

Having It All
1982
as Peter Baylin
Thera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California.

Fantasies
1982
as Detective Flynn
A crazed killer stalks the cast of a television soap-opera.

Deadline
1982
as Barney Duncan
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion -...

Amy
1981
as Dr. Ben Corcoran
A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal tra...

King Crab
1980
as Johnny Campana
Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.

City on Fire
1979
as Dr. Frank Whitman
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Sex and the Married Woman
1977
as Alan Fitch
A suburban housewife writes a novel based on her neighbors' sex lives. It becomes a runaway best seller, but causes no end of trouble in her marriage ...

Night Games
1974
as Anthony J. Petrocelli
A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of mur...

Fear Is the Key
1972
as John Talbot
A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.

The Salzburg Connection
1972
as Bill Mathison
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pict...

Vanishing Point
1971
as Kowalski
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup...

The Lawyer
1970
as Tony Petrocelli
Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.

The Moving Finger
1963
A rare beatnik artifact of the early 1960s, one of only a few such films made before the hippies took over Hollywood. Low budget and in b&w, it's ...

Pretty Boy Floyd
1960
as Al Riccardo
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma ...