Herbert Coward lifeless at 74: Car crash with chihuahua and squirrel
Herbert Coward – who’s finest recognized for enjoying Toothless Man in basic 1972 movie Deliverance – died aged 74 in a automotive crash together with a buddy and his beloved pet Chihuahua and squirrel.
The actor was making an attempt to show onto the U.S. Route 23 Highway in North Carolina from a physician’s workplace however did not yield the proper of manner because the car was hit by an oncoming truck regulation enforcement instructed FOX Carolina on Wednesday.
Their police sources say that each the driving force and passenger handed away following the collision.
In Coward’s silver Nissan had been his buddy Bertha Brooks along with his pet squirrel and Chihuahua as all 4 died within the crash.
Herbert Coward died aged 74 in a automotive crash together with a buddy and his beloved pet Chihuahua and squirrel in North Carolina this week
The actor (pictured left) is finest recognized for enjoying Toothless Man in basic 1972 movie Deliverance
State Troopers defined to the publication that the opposite driver concerned within the collision was a 16-year-old who was later taken to the hospital to get checked out following the crash.
The regulation enforcement sources didn’t give any additional particulars about their situation.
The teenager was not charged as troopers decided that there was no crime dedicated.
As beforehand stated, Coward was finest recognized for his function in journey movie Deliverance the place he performed one among two sadistic mountain males and as he was lacking entrance tooth he turned generally known as ‘Toothless Man.’
In maybe the most effective recognized scene from the movie, his character and his fellow hillbilly sodomized a person in entrance of his buddy who was tied to a tree within the forest.
Many of Coward’s traces from the movie have turn out to be notorious in popular culture.
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