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Herbert “Cowboy” Coward Dies: Toothless Mountain Man Of ‘Deliverance’ Was 85
Herbert “Cowboy” Coward, the sometime actor and pal of Burt Reynolds who played one of the two scary, sadistic mountain men in John Boorman’s Deliverance, died Wednesday in a car crash in North Car…
Herbert “Cowboy” Coward, the sometime actor and pal of Burt Reynolds who played one of the two scary, sadistic mountain men in John Boorman’s Deliverance, died Wednesday in a car crash in North Carolina. Coward had come to Reynold’s attention during the early 1960s when the two worked as actors at an Old West ghost town amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina ( Bonanza ‘s Dan Blocker also got his start there). Years later, when Reynolds was filming the 1972 survivalist classic, he remembered Coward and recommended him to director Boorman to play one of the two sadistic mountain men who stalk and rape Ned Beatty’s Bobby Trippe character.
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